Logo

Author Page

Chuck Ross 38,865 Entries
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.

USA Network Unveils Spring Schedule

USA Network today rolled out its spring schedule, including season premiere dates for the originals “Colony” (Wednesday, May 2), “Queen of the South” (Thursday, June 21) and “Shooter” (also Thursday, June 21). As was previously announced, “Suits” returns for the…

Court Sides With Family of Marvin Gaye in Dispute Over ‘Blurred Lines’

“A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a copyright infringement verdict against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over the 2013 hit song ‘Blurred Lines,’ agreeing with lower courts that it illegally copied from Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give it Up,’”…

After 54 Years, the Indianapolis 500 Will Be Moving to a New Network

The Indianapolis 500 is moving to a new television home as part of a multiyear media rights deal between IndyCar and NBC. For the group’s featured race, the Indy 500, which moves to NBC in 2019, the deal ends a…

Fox Rolls Out Its Summer Schedule

Fox took the wraps off its prime-time schedule for this summer, including premiere dates for new seasons of “Beat Shazam,” “Love Connection,” “MasterChef” and “So You Think You Can Dance” along with the new series “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to…

Daytime Emmy Nominations Announced, With One of the Big 4 Networks Way Out in Front

Two of the big storylines in today’s Daytime Emmy nominations announcement are the emergence of the streamers, in the form of Netflix and Amazon, as leading contenders for trophies, and the domination of CBS over its Big 4 broadcast rivals….

Comedian Partners With Agency to Buy Comedy Festival

A comedian who’s a familiar face in prime time is teaming up with the agency ICM Partners to buy a comedy festival. Variety reports that Howie Mandel and ICM are leading an investor group that acquired the Montreal-based Just For…

Eighty Percent (!) of Venture Capital Investment Goes to Three States — The First Two Are Easy, But We Had Trouble Guessing the Third

A group of lawmakers wants to end what the group sees as an imbalance in how venture capital is divided up. In a special report in Recode, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Rep. Ro. Khanna, D.-Calif., write that a “whopping”…

If You Like Fast Cars — Especially Sleepers — You May Want to Watch This

A new TV series appears determined to live by the motto “The last man standing will have the fastest car.” The series, “Fastest Car,” launches April 6 on Netflix, marking the streaming service’s first global original motor series. “In each…

Network to Spend a Week Celebrating Weed

Plans were just released today for Weed Week — “Now with more weed” — on Viceland, running April 16-20. The second annual installment of the programming event will feature sneak previews of the shows “F*ck That’s Delicious” and “Most Expensivest”…

Despite Efforts by Some Networks, the Average Amount of Advertising per Hour in Prime Time Remains Near Its All-Time High

Ad minutes in prime time remain near all-time highs even as some networks — notably Fox and the NBCUniversal networks — have begun rattling their sabers about reducing ad loads in their programming. MediaPost cites data released today as part…