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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.
The midterm elections Tuesday, during which a Republican wave was voted into office, gave Fox News a boost as well, reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The network drew an average of 6.96 million viewers in prime time on…
Three shows — "Eden", "Wild Card" and "Over/Under" — have received cast-contingent pilot orders from USA, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Including these orders, USA has placed six orders for the year, marking its largest ever in…
News Corp.’s first-quarter profit jumped 36% from higher advertising sales and subscriber fees at its television channels, reports Bloomberg. The company is benefiting from higher fees from TV distributors, as seen with its new deals with Dish Network and Cablevision…
Bravo has given a series order to celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, who will host a program that pits four aspiring chefs in a competition to wow guests at a private dinner party, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog….
Interesting headline of an article posted on People.com tonight: "Gwyneth Paltrow to Serenade ‘Glee’ Viewers with the ‘F’ Word." Well, not quite. Yes, Paltrow will appear on an upcoming episode of "Glee." And the ORIGINAL version of the hip-hop song…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors have preliminarily banned toys from certain Happy Meals, reports the Globe and Mail. Says the report, "On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban restaurants from offering a free toy…
A former participant on a reality show was elected to the House of Representatives yesterday. It’s Sean Duffy, who was on MTV’s "Real World, , reports the Wausau Daily Herald. Duffy, the former district attorney for Ashland County in Wisconsin,…
A popular host on E! has a new show going to pilot on NBC, reports Deadline.com. "Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea," is the name of the semi-autobiographical sitcom that will deal with Chelsea Handler’s life when she was…
Again, here’s the question. Which basic cable show has the most total average viewers this season? Is it ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Army Wives,’ ‘Hot in Cleveland,’ or ‘Project Runway’? According to Nielsen stats provided to us…
It’s a Bauerful Big deal: the stars of "24 and "Sex and the City’ together on Broadway, TV Guide reports. Keifer Sutherland and Chris Noth will both apperar in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "That Championship Season," the story…