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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.
One of the most successful series on TLC, has been renewed for a sixth season, reportsTVbythenumbers.com. The show, "Little People, Big World," details the lives of the Roloff family, and has been scoring 1.4 million total viewers per episode. The fifth…
With many confused and angry users, Google’s experiment on Friday with background images was pulled 10 hours earlier than scheduled, CNET reports. "Design guru Marissa Mayer confirmed that Google was ending the experiment early due to what she called a…
Jack Kervorkian, 82, the famous right-to-die pathologist, in an interview With CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta says, ‘"The single worst moment of my life… was the moment I was born,’ Gupta writes at CNN.com. Kervorkian claims to have assisted in 130 suicides….
Larry King is considering moving back to New York City after becoming tired of the paparazzi and the drama over his marriage to Shawn Southwick while living in Los Angeles, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. King could move…
Popular cable executive Wonya Lucas has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer for Discovery Channel and Science Channel, the company has announced. Lucas takes the new post from "her position as Chief Marketing Officer for Discovery Communications where…
The cable network upfront has almost wrapped up, with top networks seeing "modestly strong pricing" compared with a year earlier, reports MediaDailyNews. Cable networks saw a jump in ad spending to $7.7 billion, representing an 18 percent increase over last…
ABC’s new legal drama "The Whole Truth" has signed Maura Tierney, marking a return to television for the actor after she underwent treatment for breast cancer, EW.com’s The Ausiello Files reports. While Tierney had tried to return to TV last…
Coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup gave Univision the biggest opening-day ratings for the sports event, outpacing ESPN’s opening match coverage, B&C reports. The Spanish-language network drew 5.4 million viewers on average in the U.S. with the tournament’s opening…
Bob Wussler, one of the best-known TV executives for more than four decades, has died at age 73 after a long illness, his family has announced. Wussler died on Saturday, June 5, at home in Westport, Connecticut. Starting in the mailroom…
The competition for Bresnan Communications was thick, with several companies bidding for the provider of cable services in Western states such as Montana, but the winner is Cablevision with a bid of $1.36 billion, reports Bloomberg News. Bresnan is the…