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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.
Hulu is learning that customers as a rule don’t smile upon being asked to pay up for things that previously were free, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. As of Friday morning, 83% of reviewers on iTunes gave…
The husband of "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice has been accused of allegedly forging a signature on a mortgage document to secure $1 million, the New York Post reports, citing court papers. It’s unclear what happened to…
Ilene Woods, who gave voice to the Walt Disney animated classic "Cinderella" when she was 18, has died at age 81, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the story, "Woods, a Calabasas resident, died of causes related to Alzheimer’s…
Singer George Michael, 47, has been arrested for a seventh time for a driving-related incident, EW.com’s Music Mix reports. According to the story, "After police got reports that his Range Rover had crashed into a Snappy Snaps shop in London following…
After announcing his pending departure as a regular host on CNN, Larry King called into the MLB Network and confessed he’d love to work there, the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. King, 76, went so far as to discuss logistics,…
Sony Television is set to debut a new cable network and expand one that’s now on-demand only, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The first, tentatively called Sony Pictures Movies HD, will focus on movies and is scheduled…
The lawsuit over profits from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" threatens the foundation of many media mergers, which has benefited corporate owners by placing program production with program distribution under the same roof, reports the Los Angeles Times. There…
Here’s a wild new app is being developed and tested out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab Camera Culture group, reports AOL’s Small Business. According to the article, "Here’s how it works: The user downloads the app, places a $2 lens…
For years the declining population of honey bees has been attributed to mites. But now a new culprit may have been found: radiation emitted from cell phones, AOL’s Small Business reports. Says the article: "Researchers fitted cell phones to a…
ABC Television Stations Group on Friday named the new president and general manager of WABC-TV in New York. Rebecca S. Campbell, president of the ABC Television Stations Group, announced that the post will be filled by J. David (Dave) Davis,…