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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.

Is The Future of TV Viewing Through the Internet and Then Onto a TV, Computer or Mobile Device?

Dave Poltrack, CBS’s chief researcher, has come up with an interesting theory: that most TV shows will be streamed throught the Internet to be displayed on a variety of devices: TVs, computers, mobile devices. As media planners, if this comes…

At the TCA Summer Press Tour 2009, Here’s NBC’s Bromstad and Telegdy Questioned About How NBC’s Business Model is Evolving

Here’s reporter Verne Gay of Newsday questioning Angela Bromstad, president, primetime entertainment,NBC and Universal Media Studios and Paul Telegdy, evp, alternative programming and production, NBC and Universal Media Studios on how NBC is fundamentally trying to change how it operates…

Jay Leno, Uncensored, Uncut, on Everything From His Responsibility to Local Affiliates, to Why He Won’t Have a Lot of Music Acts Perform, to Why He’s Not Nervous. (His Answer to That Last One: Because ‘I’m Rich’)

By far the most buzz about the new TV season is NBC’s moving Jay Leno to an hour each weeknight at 10 pm in place of scripted programming. On Wednesday afternoon, Leno himself  sat before the nation’s TV critics at…

Your MOST COMPLETE Coverage of Paula Abdul Leaving ‘American Idol’

Compiled by TV Week          Because we aggregate news, TVWeek is your SINGLE most complete source on Tuesday night’s bombshell that Paula Abdul is leaving "American Idol." Here goes: Paula broke the news in a series of Tweets she Twittered Tuesday night,…

The Perils of Live Blogging the TCA—on an iPhone

Listen, here’s how it came down: 2:30 a.m. The baby started screaming, "ba-bah, ba-bah." Hours earlier our 6-year-old daughter had come in our room and woke us with the news that her tummy hurt. My wife had gone to her room…

When Faced With Placing Non-traditional Media on the Media Plan You Need to Ask Certain Key Questions; Plus—How Media Trading is Working in the U.K.

[Editor’s Note: Today’s Media Planner focuses on the how to handle things that are new. For example, there’s been talk for quite awhile about automated media trading. Many feel it’s a threat—and wouldn’t work anyway. In today’s piece from our…

Analysis: Ben Silverman–What Went Wrong at NBC, What He Hopes Will Go Right With Barry Diller

By Michael Learmonth  AdAge.com Ben Silverman is out after a two-year stint as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, where he attempted to revive the fourth-place network with a mix of reality shows and nostalgia, like a failed remake of "Knight Rider."…

An Important News Flash About American Pop Culture, And I Doubt You’ve Heard About It

The three cornerstones of American popular culture are the movies, music and TV. This announcement I’m speaking of hits on two of the three: movies and TV. The only thing that excites me more than a terrific TV show is…

What is REALLY Going on With the Upfront and Why One of Our Most Esteemed U.S. Presidents was Wrong

This is based on a number of conversations I never had with some of the very top executives on both the buying and selling sides of the table, if you catch my drift. What’s controlling the slow-as-molasses-Upfront Marketplace is pure,…

The Top 5 Questions Media Planners Need to Ask

[Editor’s Note: It’s been a long-slow summer so far waiting out the Upfront, as the interview below with OMD’s Alan Cohen, courtesy Ad Age, attests. But before you get to that, we offer a most important article first. As planners,…