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.

Report: News Corp., Which Wants to Make Users Pay For Online News (Including Online News From Its Cable TV News Operations) is Meeting With Other Companies to Form a Consortium to Push This Pay Model

News Corp. is believed to have met with executives from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Hearst and Tribune in an effort to form a consortium of publishers that will charge for online content, according to the Dawn Chmielewski of…

Huge Manhunt in British Columbia for Reality TV Show Contestant Accused of Murder

Authorities in British Columbia are conducting a major manhunt–including the use of helicopters and trained dogs–in their search for Ryan Jenkins, the contestant on the reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire" that had been airing on VH1. Jenkins has been…

Nike’s Famous ‘Just Do It’ Slogan Was Inspired by Last Words of a Serial Killer (And Other Tidbits About Ad Slogans You Probably Don’t Know)

When serial killer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977, his final words were "Let’s do it." What few of us know is that those words were the inspiration for the ad slogan "Just do it" that…

Just in Time for the Weekend: How MTV’s Entertainment Chief Brian Graden Got to Where He Is, and How He Is Going About Re-making His Career (and How You Can Too!)

Or, as TVWeek Open Mike contributor Chuck Ross titles this piece on his blog, "Memo to Paula and All the Rest of Us: Are You Happy Doing What You’re Doing? If Not, Here’s a Blueprint for What to Do Now…

Update: Reality TV Contestant Charged with Murder; Ryan Jenkins of VH1 show ‘Megan Wants a Millionaire’ Was Previously Only a ‘Person of Interest’ to Police

Ryan Jenkins, a contestant on the VH1 reality TV show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," has been charged with the murder of his ex-wife, former model Jasmine Fiore, 28, according to the Associated Press. Police say Jenkins, 32, slipped into Canada…

Memo to Paula and All the Rest of Us: Are You Happy Doing What You’re Doing? If Not, Here’s a Blueprint for What to Do Now (And No, You Cannot Let It Be All About the Money) [Well, This One Oughta Crash Our Servers … ]

Well, the headline tells it all here. And I’m not gonna be your guide. Instead I’m gonna send you off our site to read a terrific piece about Brian Graden. Brian is the president of entertainment at the MTV Networks….

Report: Michael Jackson’s Doctor, Conrad Murray, Likely to Be Charged With Manslaughter; Murray Posts Video on YouTube

Fox News has reported that it’s likely that Michael Jackson’s person physician, Dr. Conrad Murray,will be charged with manslaughter sometime in the next few weeks in connection with the singer’s death. Separately,Dr. Murray released this video on YouTube.

VH1 Yanks Reality Series Off Schedule; Distances Itself From Show After It’s Known That Police Consider Contestant a Person of Interest in Murder

VH1 has taken "Megan Wants a Millionaire" off its schedule and has made it clear that it really has little to do with the show other than put it on its network, according to TV columnist Lisa de Moraes in…

Video: Hewitt on Hewitt. The Legendary CBS News Producer, Who Has Died at Age 86, Looks Back at His Career in This Video Made Last Fall. Among Other Achievements, Hewitt Put the Storytelling Into News That Made ’60 Minutes’ a Hit

Video: Richard Hatch, The First ‘Survivor’ Winner Who Went to Prison For Over Three Years For Tax Evasion Finally Talks; He Tells ‘Today’s’ Matt Lauer That The Reason he Got Jail Time Was Because He is Gay; UPDATE: Hatch Re-Arrested After Being on ‘Today’

Hours after the video, below, with Matt Laurer was shown on the “Today” show, Richard Hatch was re-arrested and sent back to prison. He had been serving the remainer of his time in house arrest at his sister’s house in…