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Chuck Ross

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.

Wow: It Sure Looks Like the Ownership of All or Part of NBCU Will Soon Change

By Chuck Ross The latest reports began yesterday, Wednesday, Sept. 30th, with Sharon Waxman’s online article at The Wrap that Comcast was in talks to acquire NBC Universal from General Electric. Waxman then wrote, “Deal points were hammered out at a meeting…

Truly Remarkable History Channel Scoop: Presents Scientific Evidence That Hitler Did Not Shoot Himself in His Bunker

The story of the end of Adolf Hitler’s life has been told countless times: WIth the Russians fast approaching Hitler, 56, took a cyanide pill and shot himself. Those who doubted that it happened this way had their suspicions put…

Bombshell in Polanski Case: Former Prosecutor Says He Lied in HBO Documentary About Advising Judge on Sending Polanski to Prison

Marcia Clark, who famously prosecuted the O.J. Simpson case, writes in a blog on The Daily Beast that David Wells, who said in an HBO documentary about the Roman Polanski rape case the he told the judge how to get…

J.J. Abrams is a Busy Man: This Time It’s Another Spy Show for TV

Earlier this week we told you about a J.J. Abrams comedy project for Fox. Now comes word from our old colleague, Joe Adalian over at The Warp, that ABC, CBS and NBC are all bidding on yet ANOTHER Abrams project, an…

Guess Which Cable Network Just Came in First Place in the Primetime Ratings for the Third Quarter in a Row (Hint: Born in the ____)

For the third straight quarter, the primetime ratings winner among the cable networks was the USA Network, Multichannel News reports.   Disney came in second place for the quarter. Tied for third place were three networks: TNT, ESPN and Fox News, Multichannel…

20% of Folks Who Are TiVoing Jay Are Playing it Back Within an Hour: That’s Not Good For Local News

According to numbers released by TiVo, about 20% of the viewers the record Jay Leno’s new 10 p.m. show are watching it within an hour, Joe Flint reports for the L.A. Times’ Company Town blog. . The down side is…

Survey: If Cable Wants to Charge for TV Everywhere, Not a Lot of Internet Users Are Interested

A new survey–like ones before it–confirms that most Internet users are not interested in TV Everywhere if they have to pay additional monies to get it, Multichannel News reports. TV Everywhere is the plan some cable operators have of allowing…

Station in Providence, Rhode Island Puts MyNetTV on Digital Subchannel

WNAC in Providence, Rhode Island, is putting MyNetworkTV on a digital channel, B&C reports. Besides the regular MyNet fare, viewers will also get other syndicated programming as well as some local shows and local sports. The station is owned by…

New Chief of Ad Sales for Hallmark Channel Appointed

Crown Media Holdings has filled the ad sales slot that became available when it’s former chief of ad sales, Bill Abbott, became the company’s president and CEO. The new EVP of Advertising Sales comes from within the company: Ed Georger….

CONTINUED: NBCU in Play

Continued from TVBizWire " ‘While we do not normally comment on M&A rumors, the report that Comcast has a deal to purchase NBC Universal is inaccurate.’ ” But Waxman never backed down from her story. She noted in her story—as…