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.

‘Paul Sr.: Mikey, get your fat ass upstairs and find my drill bits. Mikey: I want you to apologize for calling me fat. Paul Sr.: I apologize. Now get your fat ass up there and find my f-ing’ bits!’ End of an Era: ‘American Chopper’ Canceled

The trip is over for TLC’s reality series "American Chopper," according to TVbythenumbers.com. The last episode is Thursday, February 11. The program, which chronicled the Teutuls, a family that makes custom motorcycles, began on the Discovery Channel in 2003 and…

Huh? Toyota Dealers Pull Ads Off Some ABC Affiliates; Dealers Are Mad About ‘Excessive Stories’ on Toyota Problems

Talk about your mixed messages. Embattled Toyota, trying to reassure the public that it’s concerned about safety issues and will fix its cars that have been found to have a potentially deadly acceleration problem, has pulled TV ads off TV…

‘Friday Night Lights’ Star Cast on ABC Pilot

One of the stars of "Friday Night LIghts" has been cast on a pilot for ABC, reports Entertainment Weekly. With the prospect that his character, Matt Saracen, is being written off "Friday Night Lights," actor Zach Gilford has been cast…

SNL Kagan Report Confirms How Bleak TV Station Revenues Have Been

There’s a new report from SNL Kagan that shows a huge drop in TV station revenues from 2003-2009 of more than $5.5 billion, reports B&C. The money went from $24.6 billion to under $19 billion. The good news is that…

Record Smashed! The Super Bowl was Watched by 106.5 Million, Breaking the All-Time Viewing Record Set by ‘MAS*H’ Finale

Twenty-seven years ago, in 1983, Sally Ride become the first U.S. woman in space. Pitchers Nolan Ryan of the Astros and Steve Carlton of the Phillies both broke Walter Johnson’s 56 year record for most strikeouts. "Terms of Endearment" won…

A&E Narrows Pilot Pick-Ups to One Choice

A&E is considering the picking up the pilot "Sugarloaf," after passing on the drama pilot "The Quickening," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Says THR, "Sugarloaf," from Fox TV Studios, "stars Matt Passmore as Jim, a Chicago cop with a sly…

Bob Schieffer’s Take on the Importance of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

Veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer talks about how the times they are a-changin, in an interview with B&C, For example, B&C’s Marisa Gutherie asks him what he thinks about Jon Stewart and if he’s taking the "mantle" from more traditional newscasters…

Video: The Best Super Bowl Ad This Year, as Rated by USA Today’s Annual Consumer Poll

The best ad on the Super Bowl this year, as rated by consumers in USA Today’s annual poll, was not a beer commercial, nor an auto spot. It was Mars’ ad for its Snickers brand, starring Betty White. See it…

Cutting O’Brien Out of Poster in Lobby was One Thing–Has NBC Gone Too Far With This Further Excising of Conan?

NBC appears determined to erase any hint of Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” tenure, AllThingsD reports. According to the report, NBC.com in recent days has removed all seven months of O’Brien episodes as host of "The Tonight Show," and Hulu, the video…

Video: The Three Most Unlikely People You’d Ever Think Would Make a Promo Together: The Super Bowl Promo for Letterman’s Show (and How It Came to Pass)

Perhaps the biggest surprise on the Super Bowl was the CBS promo for the “Late Show with David Letterman”). See the video below (under the video, read how it was made) Jay Leno wore a fake mustache as part of…