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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 NFL continued its Nielsen ratings dominance on Sunday with both the Fox overrun and NBC’s prime-time football game featuring the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the New Orleans Saints, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. At 7 p.m. Fox’s overrun of the Minnesota Vikings vs….
"Denise Borino-Quinn, who unexpectedly won a role as a mafia wife on ‘The Sopranos’ after she attended an open casting call, has died," the AP reports. She was 46 and had long suffered with liver cancer. Her husband died in…
An actress will say in an interview on "Oprah" today, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, that she developed an eating disorder while on "Ally McBeal" that led to her weighing 82 pounds, reports RadarOnline.com. The actress is Portia de Rossi, who currently happens to…
As daylight savings time has begun in other places around the world, such as in Australia and New Zealand and has ended in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, a software bug in Apple’s iPhone 4’s has been revealed. In the…
News Corp. has spent $1.3 million to defeat a California ballot initiative that would repeal $1.7 billion in corporate tax breaks, something that wasn’t disclosed in five consecutive hours of live reports on Tuesday, reports The New York Times. Fox…
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on Saturday on the National Mall in Washington D.C. was "Part circus, part satrie and part parade," reports the New York Times. Colbert sent a tweet, the story saysl which said…
A Wall Street analyst has written "Comcast, which is buying a majority stake in the media company [NBC Universal] from General Electric Co., may receive heightened regulatory scrutiny as a result of the [Cablevision-Fox] dispute, said James Ratcliffe, an analyst…
A deal that would somehow merge CNN and CBS News has been long-rumored. Now, CBS chief Leslie Moonves has put water on the deal, saying it "doesn’t look good," B&C reports. According to the article, "Moonves acknowledged he has discussed different…
While RadarOnline.com has published a report that Charlie Sheen went on another bender when he returned home from New York, his manager and publicist deny it, according to TMZ. The RadarOnline report alleges that Sheen’s handlers are very concerned because…