Song List For ‘American Idol’ Online Auditions
Song Artist (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You NSYNC (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay Otis Redding A Song For You Temptations, The A Thousand Miles Vanessa Carlton Achy Breaky…
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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.
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