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.

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GSN Introducing Game Show Featuring Hard-Drinking Muppets

GSN is introducing a game show called "Late Night Liars" which will feature hard-drinking puppets from Henson Alternative, an adult division of the company who brought Muppets to television, the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog reports. The program will…

Video: Formal Complaint to FTC Claims General Motors Commercial is Deceptive

A formal complaint has been filed with the Federal Trade Commission claiming that a recent Genreral Motors ad is deceptive, Advertising Age reports. According to the article, the Washington-based advocacy group Competitive Enterprise Institute "claims the Detroit car maker misled…

Formal Complaint to FTC Claims General Motors Commercial is Deceptive

By Rich ThomaselliAdvertising Age The criticism that started two weeks ago reached a crescendo this morning when Washington-based advocacy group Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, charging General Motors with deceptive advertising. CEI claims…

Will NBC’s Overall Ratings Problems Help ‘Chuck’ and ‘Heroes’?

Bill Gorman at TVbytheNumbers.com has an interesting analysis of which shows are likely to be renewed by NBC, asking how the overall ratings problems of NBC will affect the renewal chances of "Chuck" and "Heroes." Gorman writes, "Neither ‘Chuck’s’ nor "Heroes’"…

Fox News Reports Highest-Ever Quarterly Profit

Fox News had its highest-ever quarterly profit for the period ended March 31, the New York Times’ Media Decoder reports. The network’s operating income jumped 31% from a year earlier, helped by higher advertising sales and rate increases from affiliates. Fox…

NYC Life, TV Channel Owned by the City of New York, Debuts New Primetime Line-up — for Free

NYC Life, a TV channel owned by New York City, is debuting a new primetime lineup of 15 shows — with all of them costing the city nothing, theNew York Daily News reports. The programs, valued at $4 million, have come…

‘Shield’ Actress Cast in AMC’s New Zombie Drama, ‘The Walking Dead’

"The Walking Dead," Frank Darabont’s zombie drama picked up by AMC, has cast an actress who was in "The Shield" to play the role of a member of a survivor group, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The actress is Laurie Holden had…

Nielsen Buys Company to Help Measure Viewer Engagement of Web Video Content

The Nielsen Company has bought a video analytics company to help track how engaged viewers are while watching Web video content, Mediaweek reports. The company Nielsen has purchased is GlanceGuide. Both Nielsen and competitor comScore have dropped behind some newer…