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.

Jeff Bewkes, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner, on Why The AOL Merger NEVER Made Sense, and the Lessons We should Learn from the Fiasco (from the TVWeek Innovation360 Conference in NY City, Oct. 13, 2009)

Behind Chase Carey’s Remarks About Hulu Adopting a Pay Model: Hollywood is Scared to Death About What Technology is Doing to Its Businesses

In an eye-opening piece on CNET, titled "End of the World as Hollywood Knows it," Greg Sandoval, the respected reporter who used to write for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, explains why Hollywood is freaking out about…

Chris Brown Disappointed With Oprah

Chris Brown, the talented singer who made headlines earlier this year for assaulting his then pop star girlfriend, Rihanna, is unhappy with Oprah Winfrey, reports Billboard. According to the report, in a radio interview on Oct. 21 on New York radio station…

Goodbye White Fang. So Long, Mouse and Black Tooth. No More Soupy Shuffle. Baby Boomer Kid’s Icon Soupy Sales Dies at 83

Comedian Soupy Sales, whose slapstick 1950s and 60s TV show perfected the art of pie-in-the-face throwing, died Thursday night in a New York City hospice, the New York Times reports. He was 83. Sales, who was born Milton Supman, often performed…

Hulu to Charge Users in 2010

Chase Carey, the deputy chairman of News. Corp — which co-owns Hulu — says the popular online destination that carries TV programming, will start charging users, probably as soon as 2010, B&C reports. Noting that “It’s time to start getting…

Media Giant, Thought to Be in the Running for NBCU, Thinks Comcast Will End Up the Winning Bidder

A very top executive of one of the media companies thought to be bidding for NBC Universal said at a media conference that he thinks Comcast will likely end up getting NBCU, B&C reports. Chase Carey, vice chairman of News Corp., said his company…

Lifetime Pulls Show That Featured the Family of the ‘Balloon Boy’ Hoax

The Heene family–the ones that pulled the ‘Balloon Boy’ hoax last week–won’t be getting any extra publicty on the Lifetime network. CNN is reporting that next Thursday, Oct. 29th, Lifetime had scheduled to air a rerun of the first episode…

Kate Gosselin to Answer Viewer Questions in New TV Special

Beseiged and beleagured reality TV star Kate Gosselin will answer questions submitted by viewers in a new TV special. The show will air this coming Monday, Oct. 26, on TLC in place of the Gosselin’s regularly scheduled show, “Jon & Kate…

Creator of ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ Tells of Bad Experience with Balloon Man Richard Heene

Tom Forman, the creator of ABC’s "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," tells TMZ about an experience he recently had with Balloon Man Richard Heene which left a bad taste in Forman’s mouth. According to the report, Heene pitched him an idea for a reality…

You’ve Heard of the ‘Triple Play’: Internet, Wired Phone and Video Services; Now Verizon Offers the ‘Quad Play’

Verizon Communications, which offers the FiOS video service, announced it will offer a "quad play" starting in its Northeast and Mid-Atlantic markets, Multichannel News reports. The quad play offers wireless phone to the traditional triple play. According to the article,…