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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.
[Revised 5:30 a.m., 8/13/10] It’s been more than half a year now since Simon Cowell announced back in January that he was leaving Fox’s “American Idol.” And Ellen DeGeneres is also out. Judging for the new season is set to begin…
An Oscar-winning actress who also nabbed an Emmy nomination for her guest role on NBC’s "Law & Order: SVU" is returning the crime drama to reprise her character, reports TV Guide. Marcia Gay Hardin has played Dana Lewis, an undercover…
A former syndication star who left his high-profile TV hosting job two years ago amid a voicemail scandal has decided to return to sports, his original beat, reports TV Squad. Pat O’Brien, who exited his job as host of "The…
Tom O’Brien, the former president and GM of WNBC-TV New York, has landed a new gig as chief revenue officer at CNBC, reports B&C. This is a new position for the company, which–like WNBC–is part of the NBC Universal group….
Sen. John McCain has added his voice to the chorus of opinions on Snooki, US Magazine reports, and apparently the former presidential candidate is a little smitten with the beleaguered reality star. "I kind of think she might be too…
Details are surfacing on the upcoming updated version of Apple TV, and not all the news is good, Engadget reports. The $99 set-top box, containing similar processing and storage capabilities to the iPhone 4, reportedly won’t be capable of handling…
David L. Wolper, the producer who purchased the TV rights to Alex Haley’s "Roots" before Haley had even finished writing it, has died at age 82. "Wolper died Tuesday [August 10, 2010] at his Beverly Hills home of congestive heart disease and complications of…
When the Emmy nominations were announced last month, the star of a popular sitcom received two nominations. However, he is now officially being credited with three nominations after an oversight caused his name to be overlooked in one category, the…
An Oscar-winning actress is working on an HBO series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Olive Kitteridge," in which she would play the title character, a Maine town’s seventh-grade math teacher, reports Deadline.com. Frances McDormand has optioned the book, which…
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo; Time Warner Inc. Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes; Mediacom Communications founder, Chairman and CEO Rocco Commisso; Jim Gray, former vice chairman, Time Warner Cable, and former chairman and CEO, PrimeStar Partners; PK Worldmedia Chairman and CEO…