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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.

Don Imus Back on Cable; This Time on Fox Business Network

Don Imus, the controversial radio personality whose simulcast show was dropped by MSNBC two years ago after making derogatory comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, has been picked up by the Fox Business Network, the Los Angeles Times…

Veteran TV Critic, a Big Soap Opera Fan, Discouraged by Daytime Emmy Show

The veteran TV Critic, Ed Martin, who is well known as a big fan of the soap opera genre, was quite unhappy with the Daytime Emmy Awards show. His thoughtful commentary, "Daytime Emmys 2009: The Beginning of the End" for…

Laura Dern Comedy Pilot Given Green Light by HBO

Two-time Golden Globe-winner Laura Dern is set to star in a comedy pilot for HBO, acording to The Hollywood Reporter. The report says that  "The single-camera comedy, tentatively titled "Enlightened," stars Dern as a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual…

Football Lovers Dream: Verizon fiOS Gets NFL Redzone Channel

It’s not for everyone, but it IS for football fanatics. It’s the NFL Networks’ Redzone Channel. And now Verizon’s fiOS is offering the service, Multichannel News reports. Comcast and Dish also offer it as a stand-alone channel. On DirecTV it’s…

Ratings Feast for Food Network With Best August Ever

With new shows like "The Best Thing I Ever Ate," and returning hits "Chopped" and "The Next Food Network Star," Food Network said its August ratings were the best for that month ever.  The number broke Scripps Networks records with a…

Nielsen: Simultaneous TV Viewing with Web Usage Rising–Are You One of the 128 Million?

According to new research by Nielsen Media Reearch, 57% of viewers in the U.S. who have both TVs and Internet access have tuned into both simultaneously at least once a month. That translates to 128 million people. According to a Reuters article…

Cablevision Proposes That it Be the WiFi Provider for Commuters on Metro North and the Long Island Rail Road

Cable operator Cablevision, which has a huge base in Long Island and other areas in New York and Connecticut , has made a proposal to be the wireless internet provider for commuter trains and stations in and out of Manhattan, Multichannel News reports.  Specifically, Cablevision…

Erin Andrews, the ESPN Reporter Who Was Taped Naked by a Peeping Tom, Returns to Work

Erin Andrews, the ESPN reporter who was victimized by a peeping tom who taped her naked in a hotel room, is returning to work, ABC News reports. On an episode of  Oprah WInfrey’s talk show that is scheduled to air…

The Funniest Video We’ve Seen in Awhile, From the Summer’s Craziest TV Show

WIth the summer starting to wind down we want to show you what we think is the season’s funniest video. It’s from the show with the zaniest premise we’ve seen in a long-while: Cartoon Network’s "BrainRush." The idea of the show,…

NBC to Make U.S. Version of One of the Best Series Ever on TV

As it did with "The Office," NBC is dipping once again into the rich heritage of British TV shows to make a U.S. edition. This time it’s one of the shows many TV critics have hailed as one of the…