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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.
Tuesday night remains a super-competitive night in the Nielsen ratings, with Fox benefiting from a strong performance by "Glee," CBS getting big numbers from two “NCIS” shows and ABC riding high with “Dancing With the Stars,” TVbytheNumbers.com reports. In the…
Back in 1961, when this sitcom debuted, it quickly rose to near the top of that season’s Nielsen ratings chart–only three Westerns, "Wagon Train," Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke," were more popular with viewers. It starred an actress much better known, at the time…
CNN anchor John King reportedly received a reprimand from the person who runs the Turner Broadcasting System after the TV host lost his cool when his "magic wall" jammed, says the New York Post’s Page Six. The meltdown, which drew the…
NBC’s "The Biggest Loser" has shut down production as the show’s crew staged a walkout in an effort to unionize, reports Deadline.com. Representatives from IATSE, the union that represents most TV and film crew members, showed up on the set…
From TBS press release: Tuesday night’s episode [Nov. 9, 2010] of TBS’s "Conan" had another strong performance with young viewers, delivering 1,415,000 adults 18-34 and 2,126,000 adults 18-49. Conan was watched by 2,815,000 viewers overall. The median age for "Conan"…
Former CNN anchor and personality Lou Dobbs has joined Fox Business Network, where he will host his own show, according to our friend Joe Flint at the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. It was in November, 2009, that Dobbs left…
Pictured above are three of the 36 new, graphic warning labels the Food and Drug Administration is proposing for cigarette packs, The New York Times reports. According toe the article, "Designed to cover half of a pack’s surface area, the…
A series from "Battlestar Galactica’ showrunner Ron Moore has been bought by NBC, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The show, about the U.S. Coast Guard, called "The McCulloch," comes from Sony Pictures Television and focuses on men…
By Chuck Ross Judging by its first two nights, I think Conan O’Brien’s return to TV is a winner. Highlights of his debut on TBS on Monday, Nov 8, 2010 included the taped cold opening, the taped Mastubating Bear bit, some great ad-libs by…
News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, second-in-command to Rupert Murdoch, tells Bloomberg News in an interview that the Fox blackout for Cablevision customers might never have happened except for government meddling. How does that work? Carey says the government…