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.

What Joe Abruzzese, Ad Sales Executive Extraordinaire, Did That Changed the Ad Game

In 2002, Joe Abruzzese, then the top ad sales executive at the Tiffany Network, CBS, did a most extraordinary thing. He jumped to cable, taking the helm for ad sales at Discovery Communications. As one top media agency person told…

Joe Abruzzese, President, Advertising Sales for Discovery Communications

If a client wants to get involved with Deadliest Catch, they can probably have four different platforms with it. So that’s the promise of digital. What we’re finding is that kind of thing is only about half our digital business….

Video: Oscar-Winning Director Offers Conan Part in Upcoming HBO Series (You too, Andy)

Zucker on Charlie Rose Show–Rose: NBC in ‘Shambles’; Zucker: That’s ‘Unfair’

In an interview on PBS’ “Charlie Rose” on Monday, NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker said he had shown leadership and “guts” in his handling of the Jay Leno-Conan O’Brien drama, Reuters reports. He said his job was to take chances,…

Video: Conan’s Monday Monologue Nasties About NBC

Video: Leno’s Sit Down Talk with Viewers Last Night: What NBC Did, No Amimosity Towards Conan

Problem: How to Make a 24-Hour TV Network Out of Environmentalism. Solution–Great Story Telling and This Mantra: ‘Green is a Fad. Sustainability is Forever’

Today’s entry in our salute to TVWeek’s "Cable TV Programmer of the Decade"–Discovery Communications–is a look at Planet Green through the prism belonging to the channel’s President and General Manager, Laura Michalchyshyn. She arrived at Discovery from the Sundance Channel…

Laura Michalchyshyn, President and General Manager, Planet Green, Discovery Health, and FitTV

Green is a fad. Sustainability is forever. Planet Green is about passionate people doing forward thinking things. It’s about strong narratives, great stories and great storytelling. TVWeek interviewed Laura Michalchyshyn at her office in New York in November—Chuck Ross TVWeek:…

Children of Former Talk Show Host Say Their Father All But Abandoned Them

His TV talk show focused on family and social responsibility but in his personal life, Montel Williams is “like a stranger,” Williams’ children charged in an interview with the New York Daily News. Williams and his ex-wife have been battling…

Zucker Takes Responsibility for Leno’s 10 p.m. Failure; Fred Silverman, a Former NBC Programming Chief, Calls In-Fighting ‘A Corporate Embarrassment’

NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker said he takes responsibility for the failure of Jay Leno’s prime time program, The New York Times reports. “At the end of the day Jay at 10 o’clock didn’t work,” Mr. Zucker told The Times,…