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.

Sarah Ferguson Tells Oprah She Was Drunk When She Offered to Sell Royal Access

Sarah Ferguson tells Oprah Winfrey in her first interview since an influence-peddling scandal that she was drunk when she offered to sell access to her former husband, E! Online reports. The Duchess of York said "I was drunk" and "in…

Mexican Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Former ‘Survivor’ Producer

Mexican authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former producer of "Survivor," in the murder of his wife, theLos Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog reports. A judge in Cancun issued an "order of arrest" against Beresford-Redman, 39,…

Jon Lafayette New Business Editor at B&C

Jon Lafayette has been named the new business editor at B&C. He replaces Claire Atkinson, who recently left B&C to go to the New York Post. Lafayette also worked at the Post years ago before moving on to Advertising Age. Lafayette then became one of our top…

Chairman of Nation’s 6th Largest Cable Operator Retiring

The Chairman of the nation’s sixth largest cable MSO, Bright House Networks, is retiring at the end of the year, the company has announced. That’s Bob Miron, one of the most well-known figures in the cable business for the past four…

Food Network Exec, Who is Also a Food Network On-Air Personality, Promoted to General Manager

It’s not often that a TV network executive becomes one of the most recognizable on-air faces of the network. But that’s the case over at the Food Network. One of the judges for one of the network’s most popular programs,…

Seventh Largest Cable Operator Wants to Go Private

The nation’s seventh largest cable operator wants to go priviate, Multichannel News reports. The seventh largest cable MSO is Mediacom Communications, which serves 1.3 million subscribers. The article says that Mediacom founder and chairman Rocco Commisso "who took the operator…

Watching TV on Your Cell Phone or PDA Poised To Become a Lot More Popular

With free on-the-go television viewing from mobile phone screens popular everywhere except the United States in Europe, things may be about to change, the New York Times reports. Resistance from operators and incompatible standards have hampered mobile-phone TV viewing in…

Comcast Wants to Add Another Regional Sports Network

Comcast may add a regional sports network reports Multichannel News. According to the report, Comcast is interested in building a new network featuring the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets, . The network would start with the Rockets’ 2012-13 campaign, and would…

Dennis Hopper, Actor, Art Collector, Loses His Battle Against Prostate Cancer

Dennis Hopper, one of the stars of "Crash" on Starz, has died after losing his battle against prostate cancer, He was 74 and passed away on Saturday, May 29, 2010. Hopper was primarily known as a movie actor, though he’s…

Gary Coleman, Dead at 42

Gary Coleman, who was hugely popular as a child actor starring in “Diff’rent Strokes,” has died at age 42. Coleman had had a brain hemorrhage on Wednesday and had slipped into a coma yesterday, when he was also put on…