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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.
Fox has rejected Cablevision’s latest offer to end the retranmission dispute between the two companies, meaning that Cablevision’s subscribers were unable to see game one of Major League Baseball’s World Series, which began tonight, Oct. 27, 2010. Cablevision did say…
In a statement, according to THR’s Live Feed blog, Syfy said, " “The remaining first run episodes of Caprica – airing Tuesdays at 10/9c – will be removed from the schedule as of next Tuesday, November 2. These final five…
In an apparent attempt to break the impasse between Cablevision and Fox over retransmission fees in time to bring the World Series to viewers in the New York area, Cablevision Systems Corp. made a new offer today to Fox parent…
Charlie Sheen is downplaying the incident early Tuesday in New York’s Plaza Hotel that landed him in a hospital and got the gossip mill swirling, RadarOnline.com reports. The publication snagged an exclusive text message interview with the star, who told…
A special episode of Fox’s "Glee" was the highest-rated program of Tuesday night, but CBS’s "NCIS" continued to hold its own against it, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. Fox wound up No. 1 overall for the night in the 18-49 demo while CBS…
Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, who has dipped his toe into the TV waters with HBO’s "Broadwalk Empire," has his sights set on another TV project. Nicholas Pileggi, the man who wrote the hit film "Goodfellas," revealed that filmmaker Martin…
The hosts have been named for the 90th edition of the Miss America Pageant, which will be broadcast on Jan. 15, 2011, by ABC, Las Vegas Weekly reports. "Dancing With the Stars" co-host Brooke Burke will anchor the show, the…
Fox News has re-signed one of its anchors to a new multi-year contract, reports TheWrap.com. Terms were not announced for the deal between Fox News Channel and lead anchor Shepard Smith. In 2007, when Smith signed his previous deal, it…
The Oct. 25 broadcast of ESPN’s "Monday Night Football" was a big draw for the cable net, winding up as one of the most-watched cable programs in television history, reports SportsNewser.com. The telecast ranks as the fourth-most-watched cable program of…
Matt Anderson and Nate Green, executive producers of the "Real Housewives" franchises as well as "Bethenny Getting Married?," have formed a new production company, Purveyors of Pop, and are about to ink a new deal with Bravo, reports Deadline.com. One…