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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.
Football was a big factor in the Sunday night Nielsen ratings, helping both Fox and NBC, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 7 p.m. Fox’s NFL overrun into prime time collected a huge 8.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic, ahead of NBC’s…
HBO should be having a great year given that it’s airing the third season of the hit "True Blood" and earlier this year debuted the award-winning "The Pacific," but instead HBO found itself with its lowest number of subscribers in…
The big winners this year at the MTV Video Music Awards were Lady Gaga, with eight awards for her record 13 nominations, and Kanye West, who redeemed himself from his microphone-grabbing stunt last year, The New York Times said in a review…
Jennifer Lopez has accepted a $12 million deal to become a judge on Fox’s "American Idol," although most of her "diva demands" weren’t met, Deadline.com reports. According to the article, "Jennifer Lopez had been negotiating for a guaranteed "go" motion…
In less than five years–in 2014– North America will no longer be the world’s largest ad market, Bloomberg reports. North American will be overtaken by the Asia-Pacific region, reports Bloomberg News, citing a report from eMarketer Inc. and Starcom MediVest…
Viacom’s Spike cable network, in certain episodes of its off-HBO airiing of "Entourage," has run ad breaks ranging anywhere from six minutes in length to something approaching an eyebrow-raising 10 minutes in total, Advertising Age reports, adding, "In some cases, the…
A family is set to get more that $1.5 million in the first-ever court award linking autism to vaccines, CBS News reports. Whether vaccines have a role in causing or triggering autism has been a matter of debate and controversy…
When you sit down and think about it, its seems like a natural: Lifetime is making a movie based on what just may be Garth Brooks’ most popular song, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The song is Brooks’ No. 1…
TWeek continues its series of conversations with Bill Abbott, the president and CEO of the Hallmark cable channels, as today, Sept., 13, 2010, Hallmark begins a transformation almost unprecedented in basic cable. Every once in awhile it’s announced that a…
The Hollywood Reporter is taking a radical step that its new ownership claim is necessary to save the publication: It will become weekly in October, 2010, 80 years and one month after it first started its life publishing as a daily….