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Chuck Ross

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.

iTunes Increases Sample Time of Songs From 30 Seconds to 90 Seconds; Says Move Should Improve Sales

According to CNET, the following note has been sent from Apple to record label executives:

Syndication and Ad Sales Lead Time Warner Profits to Beat Analysts Expectations for Third Quarter

With syndication sales of "Two and a Half Men" offsetting lower box office, and ad sales at both its cable networks and Time Inc., Time Warner was about to beat Wall Street analysts’ expectations for third-quarter profits, Bloomberg reports. According…

The Puzzling Failure of Obama and the Democrats: How We Suffered For Our Sanity. How We Tried To Set Them Free. They Would Not Listen. They Did Not Know How. Perhaps They’ll Listen Now. (But Don’t Count on It)

Now that the entire frickin’ nation has yelled and screamed through their ballot boxes—except for us loons here in California–perhaps Obama will get it, but I’m not optimistic. [Aside: How do I know we’re looney tunes out here? Well, how…

Fox Wins First TV Victory of Fall Season With Broadcast of the World Series

Even though this year’s World Series was the second-least-watched ever, it still lifted Fox to its first weekly win in the fall TV season,reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. The matchups between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas…

Google Exec: Broadcasters Don’t Understand Google TV

Broadcasters who are demanding payment before allowing their content to be seen on Google TV don’t understand the service, a top Google executive says, according to the Canadian Press. According to the article, "Rishi Chandra, Google TV’s lead product manager,…

Broadway Star of ‘The Lion King’ Loses Her Brave Battle Against Cancer; She Was 11 Years Old and Played Young Nala in the Show

“Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old who played Young Nala in Broadway’s “Lion King,” has died…,”ABC News reports. She had leukemia. According to the article, “More than 8,000 people from around the country, including the rapper 50 Cent, volunteered to be bone…

‘Glee’ Faces Fallout From ‘Rocky Horror’ Episode

Fox’s hit show “Glee” is facing fallout from an unusual source in the wake of its recent “Rocky Horror”-themed episode. While the show is generally praised as being gay-friendly, it was dinged by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation…

ABC Wins Bidding War for Blog-Based Sitcom From ‘American Dad’ Exec Producer

A bidding war over a project from "American Dad" executive producer Nahnatchka Khan that’s based on the blog "Dealbreaker" has been won by ABC, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Produced by 20th TV, where Khan is under an overall deal,…

Stars Continue to Line Up for Oprah Winfrey Network

Oprah Winfrey’s new network continues to gather momentum before its January 2011 premiere. After reports Monday that the Judds and Ryan and Tatum O’Neal will have reality shows on OWN, today a report surfaced that "The Office’s" Rainn Wilson may…

Olbermann Says He Will Tweak His Show In Response to Jon Stewart’s Rally

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann said he’s taking to heart Jon Stewart’s message at his rally over the weekend against partisanship and anger in cable news. Olbermann said he will suspend his long-running "Worst Persons in the World" segment, reports The…