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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.
Dunno about you, but we’re always misplacing our remote control for our TV. So get this: A company called L5 Technologies has submitted to Apple an app that will let an iPhone act as a universal remote control for a…
"John King, USA" has hit a new low point for the four-week-old show, TVNewser reports. The show drew an average of just 54,000 viewers in the 25-54 year old demographic on Wednesday, the lowest for the cable-news network since Dec….
Yep, The Bear Whisperer. That would be Steve Searles. Animal Planet is giving a short three episode order to the documentary project "The Bear Whisperer," the Hollywood Reporter reports. The show follows professional bear expert Searles as he uses humane techniques to…
It’s either every New Yorker’s worst nightmare or best dream: you get in a cab and there’s Ben Bailey driving. Bailey’s the guy who shows up when unsuspecting people who are hailing a cab and find him inside, conducting a…
The United States Library of Congress will archive all public Tweets since Twitter started in March, 2006, it was announced today. Separately, Google said it will search that archive. Both announcements were covered by various media, including Wired. According to…
Both Katic Couric and Harry Smith have had colonoscopies on-air in an effort to raise awareness of colon cancer and get people to have themselves tested. Now comic Kathy Griffin will do something similar. On her Bravo show she will…
AMC has hired Michelle Forbes, who played the unhinged maenad in HBO’s "True Blood," for a basic-cable drama pilot "The Killing," the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed reports. The pilot is "The Killing," which remains the only pilot up for…
Telemundo has created a consumer products unit to create jewelry and other items that can be worked into the network’s telenovelas and then sold both at telemundo.com and at home shopping and retail channels, Adweek reports. The first effort will…
"Fairway philanderer Tiger Woods and his fed-up wife, Elin Nordegren, appear headed to divorce court and the final straw in the disintegrating marriage may have been the golf swinger’s creepy Nike ad," is the lead sentence of a report in…
Larry King, 76, and his wife, Shawn Southwick, 50, have both filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences," the New York Daily News reports. Acording to the article, "The marriage crumbled after Southwick accused King of having an affair with her…