Chuck Ross

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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.

Lindsay Lohan Posts Bail After Arrest Warrant Issued; Her Alcohol-Monitoring Device Went Off After Lohan Attended the MTV Movie Awards

Lindsay Lohan has posted $200,000 bail after a warrant was issued for her arrest, reports the Los Angeles Times. Lohan has been wearing a court-ordered alchohol monitoring device. The report, quoting unnamed sources, says that "the alcohol-monitoring device on Lohan’s ankle sent a…

Survey Says: Which of These Movies is the Most-Watched Video-on-Demand Movie of All Time: ‘Twilight,’ ‘The Hangover,’ ‘Titanic’

Video-on-Demand distributor Avail-TVN has released a report listing the top 20 most-watched On-Demand movies of all-time, Multichannel News reports. The one caveat: no data from movies shown on-demand in 2010 was included. Indicative of the growing popularity of on-demand viewing,…

U.S. Patent Office Invalidates Key TiVo Patent

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that TiVo’s ‘Time Warp’ DVR patent — which is at the heart of the company’s years-long litigation against Dish Network and EchoStar — is invalid in light of two prior-art references," reports…

NBC Moves Drama Exec to Run Newly Restored Current Dept.

NBC has tapped one of its drama executives to to run its newly restored current department, giving him responsibility for overseeing the network and studio’s currently broadcast scripted program, reports Deadline.com. The new current executive is Vernon Sanders. Erin Gough Wehrenberg…

Broadcast Nets Playing Hardball With ATAS for Emmy Broadcast Rights; ATAS May Have to Go To Cable, Which Could Mean a Lower License Fee

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is having a "difficult discussion over a license-fee increase" for its primetime Emmy broadcast, former TVWeek editor Alex Ben Block writes in The Hollywood Reporter. ATAS has until the time the show airs…

Fallon Continues to Do Well with 18-49 Year Olds, but His Overall May-to-May Ratings Were Down Significantly

Is NBC concerned about Jimmy Fallon’s falling ratings? In comparing May 2010 to May 2009, Fallon’s ratings have slid 20 %. An unnamed "TV Insider" tells New York Post’s gossipy Page Six that the decline has indeed caused concern within NBC. Though in…

CBS Concludes Upfront Sales, with ABC and NBC Close Behind

The primetime upfront marketplace, at least for the broadcast networks, is drawing to a close. CBS’ total should fall between $2.4 billion to $2.6 billion, with price increases ranging from 9% to 10% Advertising Age’s Brian Steinberg reports. In addition, buyers…

Broadcast Networks’ 2010-2011 Upfronts Wrapping Up

Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age CBS has wrapped up upfront sales for its 2010-2011 season, according to the network. CBS was able to secure a volume increase of somewhere in the high-teens-percentage range, according to a person familiar with the matter. NBC…

Commentary: Why Apple’s Move Allowing Its Safari 5 Browser to Block Ads is Disingenuous

In a commentary about Apple allowing its Safari 5 Browser to block ads by Wired’s Epicenter writer Eliot Van Buskirk, he explains what he thinks are Apple’s hidden motives. As Van Buskirk himself writes, "It may seem like a subtle…

Fox News, Bloomberg in the Running for Helen Thomas’ Front-Row White House Seat

With Helen Thomas retiring abruptly after her controversial remarks about Israel last week, a race to fill her front-row seat has been set off, the New York Post reports. Fox News Channel and Bloomberg News are in the running for…