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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.
While scripted series continue to thrive on cable, viewers are giving a big "ho-hum" to them on the braodcast networks, our friend Gary Levin reports for USA Today. According to the article, "ABC’s Sunday duo of ‘Scoundrels’ and ‘The Gates’…
Time Warner Cable is gearing up for what "could be a bruising publicity battle over retrans and carriage fees with Walt Disney Co. this summer," reports Multichannel News’ Todd Spangler. In preparation for the confrontaton, TWC has re-launched its "Roll Over…
"The shoe’s on the other foot for Cablevision in a contract dispute that could affect millions of AT&T U-verse television customers at midnight, " USA Today’s long-time media reporter David Lieberman writes. In the past, the article notes, Cablevision, which…
News Corp., which so successfully challenged CNN in the United States with its Fox News Channel, now has its sights on challenging al-Jazeera in the Arab world, the Financial Times reports. The new Arabic-language news channel would be based in…
Apple’s new iPhone 4 has been blasted by many, including Consumer Reports, which has come out with a recommendation not to buy it. Today TechCrunch’s MG Siegler–and admitted fan of previous iPhone’s–tells why he loves the iPhone 4. You can…
Got the doldrums now that World Cup soccer is over? No worries: On July 20th you’ll have "Oh My Gol!" to cheer you up. The original series, on GolTV, is a weekly half-hour that "delivers the most amazing goals, tantalizing saves, and…
The Television Bureau of Advertising, the trade group whose primary responsibility is to promote advertising on local TV stations, wants to get out of ePort, a software management system for ads it started in 2001, according to well-respected veteran TV reporter…
Raycom Media will roll out a new weekly TV show on all of its 47 TV stations this fall that the company is producing in partnership with ITV studios, B&C reports. According to the article, the program, " ‘America Today’…
The FCC’s indecency policy was struck down Tuesday by a U.S. appeals court, which called the policy a violation of the First Amendment, according to The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The appeals panel called the Federal Communications Commission policy “unconstitutionally…
The premiere of TNT’s new police drama "Rizzoli & Isles" was a big winner for the network Monday night, becoming cable’s No. 1 commercial-supported series launch of all time by drawing 7.6 million total viewers. The lead-in for the show…