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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.
Harmonic has agreed to buy Omneon to create a company providing end-to-end video content storage, processing and delivery for some of the top media companies, the Financial Times reports. The $274 million purchase includes $190 million in cash. Closely held…
The panic on Wall Street on Thursday, May 6, may have been caused by a trader who, mistakenly, punched into a computer that he wanted to sell $16 billion worth of futures, when he meant to type in $16 million,…
A woman who works for NBC’s flagship TV station serving the Los Angeles market, KNBC-TV, claims to have bought the single winning ticket in Tuesday’s Mega Millions lottery that’s worth $266 million, a KNBC spokesperson has confirmed. At the woman’s…
KDKA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh, may have killed a potentially damaging video of the Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for fear of tarnishing its marketing relationship with the team, Sports Illustrated magazine reports. The incident happened after Roethlisberger was injured…
A new study shows the power of social media, even under the most surprising of circumstances, Advertising Age reports. According to the report, "Would you answer a text during sex? If you’re younger than 25, one in 10 of you…
It’s turning into one for the record books for "American Idol," but probably not in the way the show’s creators would like. Bill Carter reports in the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog that the ‘Idol’ episode on Tuesday, April…
James Gandolfini’s Attaboy Films production company, which has a deal with HBO, is working on a U.S. version of the French-Canadian comedy series "Taxi-22," which may also star "The Sopranos" star, reports Deadline.com. Gandolfini is executive producing the project with…
Conan O’Brien has been offered and turned down more interviews to tell his side of the story, reports Rob Shuter on Popeater.com. O’Brien was offered a chance to talk about his departure from NBC with Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and…
Some users of Facebook discovered a glitch this week which allowed them access to information about their Facebook friends that was supposed to be private, the New York Times reports. As social media becomes a more important tool for marketers…