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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.
Cristina Saralegui, called "The Spanish Oprah" and the host of Univision’s "El Show de Cristina," tells the Los Angeles Times that contrary to Univision’s claim she is retiring, the TV network fired her. According to the article, Saralegui said that…
The person who was a speech writer, adviser and condfidant of President John F. Kennedy, and who helped shape much of JFK’s media image, has died, The Washington Post reports. The Post wrote: "Ted Sorensen, the admired longtime assistant to President John F. Kennedy who provided…
Many aspects of television have undergone change during the past decade — think of YouTube videos, Hulu and 3D television sets — but the most recent gadget to get an overhaul is the remote control, reports the New York Times….
Cablevision and Fox have ended their retransmission dispute that had kept three million Cablevision subscribers in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia areas from seeing the World Series among other programming. When most programmers and and distributors settle these…
MGM creditors have decided to put the company into Chapter 11 as opposed to selling its debt to investor Carl Icahn, Forbes reports. According to the article, "The vote came after Icahn had made two separate offers to buy up…
"Roughly two days before its retransmission consent agreement for more than two dozen Fox Networks owned and operated stations were set to expire, Dish Network has reached a carriage deal that not only avoids a blackout of the broadcast networks,…
CBS’s "Big Bang Theory" is proving to be as big a hit on Thursday nights as it was on Mondays. It was the top-rated show Thursday night, even up against Game 2 of the World Series, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. CBS…
Vanity Fair has posted an excerpt of our friend Bill Carter’s book about the NBC Jay Leno-Conan O’Brien disaster, called "The War for Late Night," and it’s filled with the juiciest of dialog and details. Carter, The New York Times’ longtime…
To repeat: What do Janet Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, Hilary Duff, Jayma Mays, Russell Peters, DMX and Antoine Dodson all have in common? They are all guests the first week on comic George Lopez’s "Lopez Tonight’ on TBS…
One of the original stars of Bravo’s "The Real Housewives of Orange County" was hospitalized on Thursday, suffering from internal bleeding, reports E! Online. A co-worker of Vicki Gunvalson’s at Coto Insurance & Financial Services confirmed that Gunvalson was forced…