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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.

Comcast Deal Could Mean Millions More Viewers for NHL

Comcast will place the NHL Network on its Digital Classic tier beginning with the 2009-10 season, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The agreement has the potential of increasing the possible viewship of the NHL to 10.8 million viewers from 2 million….

NBC, Tribune and Fox Stations Share News Video in LA

KNBC-TV, KTLA-TV and KTTV, owned by NBC, Tribune and Fox, respectively, will announce a local news video-sharing agreement for the Los Angeles market that will begin June 15, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The stations will pitch in photographers and assignment…

Fox News Big Gainer in May; CNN Plunges

Fox News Channel ended May as the top-rated cable news network during a month that included the unraveling of the U.S. auto industry and the announcement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s retirement, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Fox News saw…

Heidi, Spencer ‘Really’ Quit ‘I’m a Celebrity’ This Time

Heidi and Spencer Pratt, the newlyweds who star on MTV’s "The Hills," quit NBC’s "I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here," the Associated Press reports. They have quit and unquit the show before, but reportedly really mean it…

Google Loses 2nd Ad Exec to AOL

Google advertising executive Erin Clift is leaving to join AOL next month, where she’ll work with former colleague and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Advertising Age reports.  At AOL, Clift will serve as senior vice president-global sales development, where she’ll also…

LA Mayor Dating Second Local TV Newswoman

The news that KTLA-TV anchor Lu Parker is dating Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa raises questions about conflict of interest and fair coverage, the Los Angeles Times reports. This is the second time Villaraigosa has dated a local LA newswoman…

Dish Ordered to Pay TiVo $192 Million

A federal court ordered Dish Network and EchoStar to pay TiVo $192.7 million in damages and interest after the court ruled Dish must stop using a digital video recording service that infringes on a TiVo patent, Bloomberg News reports. Even…

Reality Shows Engage More Than Scripted

Broadcast reality television shows are able to better engage viewers than scripted shows, although the latter tends to draw younger and wealthier viewers, MediaPost reports, citing research from ExperianSimmons. Using a scale with the top rating being 500, the study…

White House to Renominate FCC’s McDowell

The White House plans to renominate Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell to the FCC, Broadcasting & Cable reports. McDowell would serve a new five-year term after being sworn in during May 2006 to fill the unexpired term of former Chairman Michael…

Terry Harper, SPJ executive director, dies

Terry Harper, 45, the executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists, died today after a two-year struggle with brain cancer, the SPC announced. According to a SPC release, Harper “served from February 2002 through May 2009, took the helm…