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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.
According to Nielsen, 56% of U.S. Households now have high definition TV sets, but actual viewing in HD still lags far behind, reports Television Broadcast. According to the article, "Just 13 percent of total-day viewing on cable TV is in…
Disney Channel’s latest original series, "Shake It Up," may have a chance of breaking out and helping replace the aging Miley Cyrus, reports Deadline.com. The Sunday debut of the program debuted as the channel’s No. 2 series premiere on record…
Queen Elizabeth II has joined Facebook. And less than a day later the royal page has "become a a lightning rod for debate about the monarchy, with the palace web team forced to censor a string of offensive comments," reports the United…
HBO’s short-lived 2005 pseudo-reality show sitcom "The Comeback," starring "Friends’" star Lisa Kudrow, is getting a new life on the Sundance Channel, Deadline.com reports. The series tells the story of comedy star Valerie Cherish, played by Kudrow, as she deals…
The Comcast-NBC Universal deal will cost consumers $2.4 billiion over the next nine years, TVNewsCheck.com reports. According to the article, "In a new economic study released today {Nov. 8, 2010), the American Cable Association found that consumers over the next…
How hot is Conan O’Brien? Tonight his new show debuts on TBS at 11 p.m. ET, and today it was announced that he’s going to be a spokesman for American Express, reports The Wall Street Journal. The credit card giant…
The mentor of "Project Runway," Tim Gunn, will try to find a way to “make it work” when he fills in as the host of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire," reports buzzerblog.com. Gunn will do a week of shows…
Only one person should play Thomas Magnum in the film version of the popular 1980s television series "Magnum, P.I.," says Tom Selleck, Parade Magazine reports. And that person? Tom Selleck. There are rumors that actors Matthew McConaughey and Ashton Kutcher…
The only remaining daytime soap opera on NBC found out Friday that it has two more years of plot twists ahead of it, as outgoing NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker called executive producer Ken Corday to give him the…