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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.
NBC and Endemol are working on a project that brings together two TV genres: the survival show and the dating show, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. "Love in the Wild" puts singles in the wilderness to see…
The Disney Channel’s "Sonny with a Chance" will refocus away from star Demi Lovato while she’s in treatment for what her representative calls "emotional and physical issues," reports People.com. The adjustment allows the show’s third season to resume production in…
On Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, Yahoo will launch the Yahoo Contributor Network of originally created news stories, our good friend David Lieberman of USA Today reports. Heretofore, Yahoo has become "one of the Web’s most popular news sources by aggregating…
With Oprah Winfrey winding down her syndicated TV show, there’s a scramble among various wannabes to get their fifteen minutes of fame on her show, the New York Times reports. Says the article, " ‘When Johnny Carson left, all the…
"A new study by Nielsen, commissioned by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), argues that most people who watch at least some content from the Web on their TV sets are ‘cord keepers’ rather than ‘cord cutters,’ reports The…
The success of Fox’s "Glee" was bound to inspire similar projects, and that appears to be what’s behind the news today that Disney Channel is gearing up for a musical television series set in high school, Deadline.com reports. The show,…
With its hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” leading all programs Thursday night, CBS came out on top for the night in a close fight with ABC, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. CBS ended the night with an overall rating of 3.0…
Last night was the first NFL Network Thursday night game of the season, and for those who have the channel, they not only saw the Atlanta Falcons come from behind to beat the Baltimore Ravens, they also heard interviewer Steve…
A new survey from Harris Interactive indicates that in the past six months 22% of Americans have canceled or cut back on their cable TV services, reports B&C. The pace of movement away from cable has been consistent for a…
Some approaches to convincing people to quit smoking work better than others, and a new study zeros in on which types of TV ads work best, according to U.S. News & World Report. According to the article, "Television ads that…