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.

Attention HBO: Cast Rosie O’Donnell as John Edwards Wife Elizabeth, and Sarah Palin as Herself

HBO has optioned the rights to the book "Game Change" about the 2008 presidential race. The book is co-written by Mark Halperin, who spoke to the New York Post’s Page Six this morning. According to the article, no one in the…

Executive Who’s Been with Discovery for All of Its 25 Years Explains the DNA of Success

Clark Bunting, who is currently the President and General Manager of the Discovery Channel, was one of company’s first employees when it launched 25 years ago. 1985 logo If there’s a job he hasn’t done at the company it’s…

Clark Bunting, President and General Manager, Discovery Channel

"Our business is based on our ability to track an audience, make sure that we are consistent with the brand values and the company as a whole, bring in advertisers and make sure the cable affiliates say, ‘You know what,…

OMG & Wow: An Article Back in 2008 Quoted a Latenight Source as Saying the Plan is to Keep Leno at NBC ‘so if Conan fails on ‘The Tonight Show’ they will put Jay right back in there’

We’ve always known that James Hibberd, our former TVWeek colleague, is one of the best reporters around, but the following reportage astounds even us! Back in December, 2008, after Hibberd left us for The Hollywood Reporter, he wrote a piece quoting a "well placed…

Video: Conan Continues To Stick it To NBC in His ‘Tonight Show’ Comedy Bits–This One’s From Last Night (Wed., Jan 20th)

How to Keep Having Fun Watching TV About Latenight Once Conan Leaves NBC and All the Jokes About the NBC Situation Stop Flying

With Conan O’Brien’s lkely departure from "The Tonight Show" tomorrow night (Friday, Jan. 22), all the jokes about NBC’s latenight fiasco will likely fade away. The problem with that is that for the last several weeks it’s the most fun…

The Recipe to Following Up ‘Jon & Kate’: A Baker, Some Police Women and a Few Little People, Of Course

Consider this dilemma. You take over a cable network whose ratings have plummeted 30%. Miraculously, you turn it around and ratings jump 43%. Then, your No.1 show self-destructs under the glare of the nation’s media. How do you rebuild from…

Eileen O’Neill, President and General Manager of TLC

We certainly want to grow our ratings. We’re going to have some challenges with ‘Jon & Kate’ off-the-air. We’re very mindful of that. TVWeek: So what do you consider your biggest challenge? And what do you feel was your biggest…

With Conan Soon to Go Off-Air, and Thus the End to Latenightgate, the Most Fun We’ve Had Watching TV in A Long Time Will Also End. But Don’t Fret–Here’s How to Continue Laffing

The new golden age of latenight, which started a few weeks ago when we heard that Leno’s primetime show was going to be cancelled and that he was going back to a latenight slot, will likely end this week, and…