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.

Your Attention Please: A Wakeup Call to the Broadcast Networks About Your Upfront Presentations

It’s time the broadcast networks re-evaluate their upfront presentations, says TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross in his latest provocative commentary. Click here to read.

A Wakeup Call for the Broadcast Networks About Your Upfront Presentations

While many of us in this Twitterized, FiOSed, Facebooked, Comcastic world have noticed that we’re a decade or so into the 21st Century, it appears that the broadcast networks have not. Hey, even old fogies realize that we’re living in…

Kimmel Kills Again at ABC Upfront: ‘Fox made a weird announcement…The coveted post-Super Bowl slot next year is going to ‘Glee.’ Apparently they’re trying to set a new Guinness world record for most drunk 43-year-old guys saying, ‘What the f—’

For several years now one of the hightlights of the network upfronts is Jimmy Kimmel’s annual monologue at ABC’s presentation in New York City This year was no exception, as Kimmel again entertained the Madison Ave. audience during ABC’s upfront…

Ahead of Upfront, NBC Buys Ads Across Microsoft Digital Properties in ‘Early and Often’ Marketing Platform

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age TV’s fall season won’t start, as you might suspect, until September and October. But ads for those shows are likely to surface in May and June. Just as it prepares to make its programming lineup for…

It’s Official NBC Cancels ‘Law & Order,’ While Keeping Two of its Siblings; Plus a Report on the REAL Reason the Original ‘Law & Order’ Wasn’t Renewed

This morning, NBC President of Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios, Angela Bromstad, clarified the situation regarding Dick Wolf’s "Law & Order" franchise. NBC gave the go ahead to “LOLA” (“Law & Order: Los Angeles”), renewed “Law & Order:…

The Real Reason NBC is Canceling ‘Law & Order’

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age The idea of canceling "Law & Order" on NBC after 20 seasons — and hundreds of reruns in syndication and on cable — sounds like anathema. Why would NBC, trying to right itself after several seasons…

Matt Lauer: Break-up Story ‘a Work of Fiction’: OMG, NY Daily News, You’ve Got to Be Kidding

By Chuck Ross Matt Lauer is denying a report that he’s split with his wife Annette, calling the story "a work of fiction," People.com reports. "I am living in my apartment with Annette and my children as a family and…

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Telemundo Picks up Spanish-language Version of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo said it will revamp its prime time lineup starting on Monday with an all-telenovela schedule, including a Spanish-language version of "Grey’s Anatomy," the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. The Telemundo version will be called "A…

International: Hey Dude, MTV Here, and We Understand Why You’re Not Watching Us

Imagine that you’re facing programming as strong as ‘American Idol" at it’s peak, for days on end. That about the situation in a number of international markets when the World Cup soccer matches air. So MTV International has decided to…