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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.
Cable operators are looking at next-generation broadband speeds up to 6 gigabits per second, Multichannel News reports. That would be possible if there was an entirely new way of conceiving data-over-coax transmission, the article says, noting that the entity investigating…
Some erosion in primetime viewing is due to increased usage of video games, according to Nielsen Games measuring division, says Media Daily News. Says the article, "Television viewer erosion is the result of a fractionalized viewership — which is due,…
Concerts by Paul McCartney, John Legend and Green Day are among the events featured on cable in May and June. Specifically, the concert series is on HDNet. HDNet has announced its concert series for May and June: Sunday, May 2 Paul…
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) says all when he complains that it is "nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our…
After seven weeks of Jay Leno’s second round on "The Tonight Show," it’s clear that his ratings trend is "eerily similar to Conan O’Brien’s," Bill Gorman at TVbytheNumbers.com writes. "Jay’s beaten David Letterman’s ‘Late Show’ all seven weeks, but so did…
Steven Seagal, who was recently sued for for sexual assault and trafficking women for sex (which shut down the shooting of his A&E TV show, "Lawman"), was accused by Jenny McCarthy of unprofessional conduct during an audition a number of years ago….
ABC refused to air a lingerie ad featuring a plus-sized model, causing the ad’s creator, Lane Bryant, to accuse the network of discrimination against larger women, the New York Post reports. ABC and Fox say that’s baloney, according to FoxNews.com….
It’s not just early-adopter gear heads who are snapping up Apple iPads. A Georgia television station has replaced its newscasts’ paper scripts with six entry-level iPads, which cost $499 each, TVNewsCheck reports. "By using the iPad, we’re saving hundreds of…
Procter & Gamble has pledged $100 million in advertising spending for the yet-to-be-debuted Oprah Winfrey Network, Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age reports. The three-year deal also includes the ability for P&G to buy product integration into OWN programs. While the…
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