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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.
Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine, has died, reports the Associated Press. He was 79 and had been suffering from cancer.. Guccione took a more lurid approach than Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, opting to publishing more explicit nudes and more…
Wall Street analysts say two distributors especially are likely to pick up customers who cancel their Cablevision service as the dispute between the MSO and Fox drags on, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The two are Verizon’s FiOS and DirecTV. Both…
"According to new research being released today by Knowledge Networks, one-in-five U.S. consumers already are using game systems to watch TV or movie content at least once a month," writes out good friend Joe Mandese in MediaDailyNews. The game cousoles…
Warner Bros. announced Wednesday that daytime talk star Ellen DeGeneres has extended her relationship with the Warner Bros. Television Group, signing an exclusive multiyear pact with the company. Under the terms of the deal, Degeneres and her production company, A…
Federal legislators have been expressing frustration at the continuing retransmission dispute between Cablevision and Fox, and that frustration is quickly developing into action, according to Radio Business Report. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., reportedly has readied a draft of legislation to…
Kim Novak, one of the top film stars of the 1950s and early 1960s, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, reports People magazine. The 77-year-old actress, famous for appearing in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film "Vertigo," is expected to overcome…
Whether or not Teresa Giudice returns for another season of Bravo’s "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" may come down to dollars and cents, according to PopEater.com. Reportedly, Giudice has not been receiving the same compensation for her work on…
President Barack Obama has been booked as a guest on a cable talk show, TVNewser reports, and it will be the first time a sitting U.S. president has appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In anticipation of the "Rally…
The new afternoon talk show on CBS, "The Talk," began broadcasting Monday and initial numbers are robust, reports TV Guide. The first show attracted 2.25 million total viewers, and in the women 18-49 demographic it was up 22% over last…
In the “Monday Night Football” game between the Tennessee Titans and the Jacksonville Jaguars, ESPN may have asked the coaches to call timeouts in order to fit in more commercials, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In a post-game press conference,…