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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 executives speaking before the Hollywood Radio & Television Society said Tuesday that the ad market is starting to rebound, reports The Hollywood Reporter. MTV Networks president Van Toffler put it in blunt terms, noting that “The economy has kind…
Charlie Sheen, who’s had a rough time personally since he was arrested on domestic violence charges on Christmas day, has asked for a leave of absence from his hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men" to enter rehab, according to…
ABC Family’s hit series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager,’ which deals with teen pregnancy among other issues, will get a very high profile guest star this summer when the show comes back for season number three, ABC Family…
A police appeal for help has turned up multiple tips of sightings of former "Growing Pains" star Andrew Koenig, who has been missing in Vancouver, TMZ reports. Police told TMZ that they have received numerous reports from the area, and…
Lifetime, the cable network aimed at women, is headed for a management shakeup as it tries to regain its ratings momentum, the Los Angeles Times reports. The network’s recent efforts to add more sizzle to its programming failed to catch…
CBS is asking its affiliates to pay for programming, according to TVNewsCheck. In an interview with CBS Affiliates Relations President Diana Wilkin, our good friend who runs the editorial product on TVNewsCheck, the veteran journalist Harry Jessell, says Wilkin claims "that most, if…
“Weeds” creator and executive producer Jenji Kohan has a new development contract with Lionsgate, but it’s how she chose to describe it that makes it newsworthy, the Los Angeles Times reports. "Having gotten to second base with Lionsgate in my…
The release of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” on DVD is expected to proceed today, after a lawsuit failed to shut it down, TMZ reports. Stephen Izzo—who was laid flat by the show’s Ronnie in one episode of the reality series—argued in…
The season finale of "Keeping up with the Kardashians" set a viewing record for E!, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The show drew 4.8 million viewers Sunday night, making it the network’s most-watched program ever. The number was about six times…
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals will let C-SPAN broadcast the audio from today’s oral argument in the re-hearing of the case of CBS versus the FCC over the fine for Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, B&C reports….