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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.
Cablevision Systems Corp., John Malone, and Suddenlink Communications are among seven bidders vying for cable and broadband provider Bresnan Communications, reports Bloomberg News. (The story was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which is firewall protected.) Bresnan provides cable services…
ABC has finished selling its upfront advertising commitments for the next television season, and it’s tallied about $2.4 billion in inventory sales, or as much as 17% more than a year earlier, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog….
Rentrak’s set-top box based local ratings service, called StationView Essentials, has now signed up over 25 stations, including it’s first breakthrough in a top 10 market, Dallas. Belo’s ABC affiliate, WFAA has signed up, Rentrak has announced. Rentrak’s set-top data…
The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is developing shows starring a celebrity chef and a fashionista, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Chef Cat Cora and fashion expert Carson Kressley are working on show that will revolve around makeovers and transforming people, such as Cora’s pilot where…
The longtime editor-in-chief at Mediaweek, our good friend Michael Burgi, who started at that trade publication as a reporter 17 years ago, is leaving to work in the cable industry, TheWrap reports. Burgi is going to Canoe Ventures, where he’ll be vice…
A bill that would require commercials to tone it down when it comes to how loud they are broadcast–that has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives–has now passed the Senate Commerce Committee and will go to the full Senate for a vote, reports…
CBS has hired a reality producer as vice president of alternative programming, Nellie Andreeva reports on Deadline.com. He’s Louis Boyd, who most recently he worked as a producer on Style’s "How Do I Look?"At CBS he’ll report to Jennifer Bresnan, executive…
Veteran reporter Gail Huff has found a new job at Allbritton’s WJLA-TV, the Washington, D.C.-area’s ABC station, and will move from her long-time Boston job at WCVB-TV, reports the Washington Post. Huff, who also happens to be the wife of the…
NBC Universal has named a president for Oxygen Media, which has undergone a total re-brand and resurgence since NBC Universal acquired the network in the fall of 2007. Named President, Oxygen Media is Jason Klarman, who has been the general…
Bad food in the red zone? Nah, that’s not it. But Walt Disney Co. will indeed shutter most of its ESPN Zone stores, a chain that offers sports-themed restaurants in seven cities, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog…