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.

Note to Readers from TVWeek.com Managing Director

I’m Chuck Ross, the editorial director and publisher of TelevisionWeek and TVWeek.com. If you’re reading this in our print edition, it’s the last column I’ll write, as today we publish the last regularly scheduled print edition of TelevisionWeek. If you…

Health in the Headlines

A significant number of breaking stories so far in 2011 have been about health and medical developments. TV viewers and newspaper readers have been bombarded by dramatic pictures and accounts of health implications of news stories around the world, from…

Lohan Less ‘Ugly’ Than Planned

Lindsay Lohan’s appearance on ABC’s “Ugly Betty” has been cut to four episodes from six, the New York Post’s Page Six reports. Lohan and “Betty” star America Ferrera didn’t get along, according to the paper. Plus there was an incident…

‘Betty’ Seeks Juice From Move to Apple

A series of tax breaks have allowed the cast and crew of “Ugly Betty” to produce the series in New York City, the show’s setting, USA Today reports. “Betty” returns to ABC for its third season from the location where…

Emmy Hot for Women Over 40

First, actresses started getting more interesting roles, particularly on cable. Now they’re getting nominated for Emmy awards, the Associated Press points out. With the exception of America Ferrera, nominated actresses this year range from 39-year-old Rachel Griffiths to Angelica Huston,…