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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.
UPDATE 12:25 PM, PT, on 10/7/2010…fixed typos in first paragraph. No substantial changes. Here’s another report that Verizon will sell Apple’s iPhone as soon as early next year. It comes from the Wall Street Journal and it sounds credible to a…
An in-depth comparison of Apple TV vs. Google TV has been made by the good folks at Cult of Mac. The article concludes, "Each device has its strengths and excels in individual areas; Google TV boasts more content sources and…
The Beatles have been surpassed by the cast of "Glee" on one of Billboard’s record charts, the Associated Press reports. The Fox television show has surpassed the Beatles for the most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by a…
The New York Post’s Richard Johnson, who has worked on Page Six for almost 25 years, is leaving his role as editor of the gossip pages of the New York tabloid, according to the Post. He’ll be moving to Hollywood…
Charlie Tillinghast, president of MSNBC.com says that having the website and the news channel sharing the same name "is brand insanity," reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. Thus NBC Universal and Microsoft are discussing changing the name of…
At a New York City high school named after legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, the television studio has literally been scrapped, reports the New York Times. A victim of changing technology and budget issues, the school got rid of…
A study from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has revealed that among the 587 series fall’s primetime television schedule, just six characters have disabilities. And of those six, just one is actually portrayed by a disabled actor, reports Backstage….
Ben Silverman has sold a comedy script to his former employer, NBC, reports James Hibberd in the Hollywood Reporter. The script, "Party People," is about entertainers who work at children’s parties, the story says. Silverman is executive producing the project through…
Fox News was caught in a fake news cycle Tuesday morning when the network reported erroneously that the Los Angeles Police Department would be investing $1 billion in jet pack technology, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The hosts of "Fox…
ABC News is launching a yearlong project to raise awareness of health issues affecting the poorest parts of the world, the AP reports. The series, "Be the Change: Save a Life," will start in December and run through next year,…