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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.
In a cost-cutting maneuver, CBS’ "Criminal Minds" is paring its female cast members, opting not to pick up the option of series regular A.J. Cook and reducing the number of episodes for co-star Paget Brewster, reports Nellie Andreeva on Deadline.com….
When you’ve got a popular TV show, such as "NCIS" on CBS, it’s not always easy to keep all of the talent happy. But recent negotiations with Michael Weatherly, who plays Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on "NCIS," have ended positively EW.com’s The…
In an article it posted this morning, PCWorld pulls no punches. The headline on the piece reads: "New Mac Mini Guns For Your Living Room." And here’s the beginning of the article: "Apple on Tuesday [June 15, 2010] introduced an…
Laurence Sunderland, the father of the 16-year old girl from Thousand Oaks, Calif. who recently aborted her attempt to sail solo around the world, said that he has broken all ties with Magnetic Entertainment, which had planned to do a…
Ad revenue at television stations will rise 14% to reach $19.8 billion this year from $17.3 billion recorded in 2009, reports B&C, citing a study from SNL Kagan. With retransmission fees, TV station revenue should reach $20.9 billion this year….
CNN is nearing deals to overhaul its prime-time line-up, with an 8 p.m. show hosted by former Governor Eliot Spitzer followed by a 9 p.m. show with "America’s Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan, who would be taking over Larry King’s…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will feature content from Walt Disney Co.’s broadband channel ESPN3, marking the first time the network’s content will be accessible through a device that connects to a television, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. That…
Alan Wurtzel, president of research and media development at NBC, and one of the key movers behind the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), says the more one works with set-top data the more one realizes its limitations, according to…
One of the first games to for Kinect, the motion-detecting camera systems for Microsoft’s XBox 360, will be a dancing-and-singing game featuring images of the late pop star, reports the Associated Press. The game, from game developer Ubisoft, will come…
The ABC pilot from Warner Bros., "Edgar Floats," has been revamped by getting rid of almost every cast member, including Tom Cavanagh and co-stars Alicia Witt and Derek Webster, EW.com’s The Ausiello Files reports. The only cast member left standing…