38,865 Entries
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.
NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller issued an apology Sunday night to staff about the way she handled the Juan Williams situation last week, the AP reported. However, Schiller said she would again make the decision to ax the veteran newsman…
NBC has picked up a mob-oriented comedy from a TV and film veteran who has a best actor Oscar in his resume, Deadline.com reports. The project is "Tommy’s Little Girl," which Jamie Foxx has been shopping for some time. Foxx,…
For some ratings-challenged television shows, the newest Nielsen DVR playback ratings may come just in time, proving that there are fans out there watching those shows, The New York Times reports. Among the shows expected to be helped by the…
In an interview with B&C’s Ben Grossman, UFC President Dana White outlined his sport’s TV strategy and said UFC will break through to broadcast in 2011. The organization will also start its own channel within the next two years, White…
NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution announced that three of its signature talk show franchises have been sold through September 2014 to station groups representing more than half of the national market. The shows are “Maury,” “The Jerry Springer Show” and…
E! reported that Sunday’s season five finale of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” scored a 3.08 household rating and attracted almost 4.1 million viewers to rank among the network’s 10 most-watched telecasts of the past 20 years, according to Nielsen…
It has only been a few months since Christiane Amanpour took over ABC’s "This Week," but the New York Post reports that some of the people with whom she works are not thrilled to have her anchoring the show. Staff…
NBC was the top-rated network on Sunday night again thanks to its National Football League game starring Bret Favre, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. At 7 p.m. CBS benefited from its NFL late-game overrun, scoring a 5.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic for…
CBS’s hit sitcom, "The Big Bang Theory," is known for casting stars to portray the parents of its characters. Next up will be Keith Carradine, who will play Penny’s father on an upcoming episode, according to an article at EW.com’s…
Thursday nights used to be one of the evenings for television’s highest profile shows and most expensive commercials, says the Wall Street Journal [Note that the WSJ is behind a paywall and you may be charged to read this story.]…