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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.
TiVo lost 730,000 subscribers over the 12 months ended Jan. 31, a 22 percent drop that left it with 2.605 million subscribers, Multichannel News reports. That’s more than the 611,000 subscribers lost in the previous 12-month period. Of TiVo’s total…
ABC Family, which announced Monday, March 8, that it had acquired the rights to air Hollywood’s latest blockbuster, Disney’s "Alice in Wonderland," has said it’s also picked up another blockbuster. Sandra Bullock took home the Best Actress award at Sunday’s…
The Miss America pageant may be homeless once again after TLC declined to renew it, but Miss Universe and Miss USA just got three more years on NBC, TheWrap reports. NBC–which clearly likes being involved in business with Donald Trump,…
It’s official: Tom Bergeron has a new co-host on the ABC hit ‘Dancing With the Stars," the network has announced. Replacing former co-host Samantha Harris will be Brooke Burke. Besides being the season seven winner of "Dancing" (with partner Derek…
One of the big cult favorite TV series has been renewed by Fox for another season, EW.com is reporting. On tap for season No.3 is the J.J. Abrams sci-fi/fantasy series "Fringe," the report says. As the article notes, "Though the…
Cisco Systems, whose clients include Comcast and AT&T, is planning a Webcast tomorrow, Tuesday, March 9th, that it says "will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments," according to eWeek.com. According to the report, Cisco is "getting ready…
Here’s what we know. The Walt Disney Co. agreed to restore the signal of its New York flagship TV station, WABC, about 15 minutes after the start of WABC’s broadcast of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7th. The two companies have resumed talks about…
Walt Disney’s latest movie in 3D, "Alice in Wonderland,’ which premiered in movie theaters (in both 2D and 3D versions) this past weekend to the tune of $116.3 million, has already made a deal to have its basic-cable TV premiere…
Nathan Scott, a composer and arranger who worked on some of the seminal TV shows beloved by the baby-boomer generation–including "Lassie" and "Dragnet"–has died at age 94, the Los Angeles Times reports. The cause was complications due to old age,…