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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.
As regular readers of TVWeek know, we have long admired the reportage of the talented James Hibberd, who used to work for us and who now writes for The Hollywood Reporter. The other day, Michael Vick announced that he had…
Will Larry King soon be working for Ryan Seacrest? Could be. Seacrest, whose daily Los Angeles-based radio show is set to end in November, is in discussions to create his own radio company. And King, 76, may become Seacrest’s first…
Negotiations for Time Warner Cable to renew rights to ESPN may be delayed by demands from ESPN’s parent, Walt Disney, for money for ESPN3.com, Bloomberg News reports. Disney wants Time Warner Cable to pay 10 cents per month per customer…
The proposed 18-game season for the National Football League could affect the television industry, including creating a permanent date for one of the biggest annual TV events, the Super Bowl, reports Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town…
Facebook is so big and ubiquitous now that it may be hard to challenge, but four U.S. college students have gotten some publicity for giving it a try. It’s called Diaspora, and bills itself as "The privacy aware, personally controlled,…
The auto-tuning debacle may be drawing to a close for U.K. television, with Simon Cowell banning the technique for "The X Factor" and scrapping an episode of show because it didn’t meet his standards, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mail. "People…
Jimmy Fallon, host of the Emmys Primetime Awards this Sunday, August 29, 2010, tells Deadline.com that he hasn’t been restricted in what he can say and that "we have a couple of ideas with Conan." While Fallon didn’t say what those ideas…
"At the end of life, patients put their faith in doctors and, according to a new study, whether doctors put their faith in God makes a big difference in how they are treated," CBS News reports, adding, "According to a…
The scatter market is getting double-digit price increases, allaying concerns that the strong upfront would have left little money for advertisers to buy commercial time closer to air,reports former TVWeek National Editor Jon Lafayette, who now works at B&C. "Scatter prices had…
TLC will end its reality show "Little People, Big World" after its next season, which will be its sixth on television, reports Multichannel News. Its final season will begin on Sept. 6 with an 18-episode run, the story says. The…