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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.

NBCUniversal Acquires Rights to Stream ‘Sunday Night Football’ to All Mobile Devices

Press release from NBC, Dec. 18, 2017: NBCUniversal has acquired rights from the National Football League to stream Sunday Night Football through NBC’s TV Everywhere offering on all mobile devices beginning with the 2018 season, NBCU announced today. The agreement…

Netflix Series to Wrap After One More Season

Netflix announced plans to wrap up a series after its upcoming third season. The streaming service will roll out the final season of the Judd Apatow series “Love” on March 9. Said Apatow, the comedy’s co-creator and executive producer: “I…

Russell Simmons Under Investigation by NYPD as He Mounts #NotMe Defense

Music and TV mogul Russell Simmons is under investigation by police in New York amid a flurry of sexual misconduct allegations, USA Today reports. Meanwhile, Simmons is taking his case to social media in an effort to defend himself, mounting…

More Dustin Hoffman Accusers Come Forward — Hoffman’s Camp Denies the Allegations

More women have come forward to accuse two-time Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman of sexual impropriety, including three women whose allegations are detailed in a report published Thursday by Variety. “Cori Thomas was in high school when she says Dustin Hoffman…

George Clooney Series on Political Scandal in the Works at Netflix

Netflix is working on a limited series focusing on one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history: Watergate. Deadline reports that the project has “Bridge of Spies” writer Matt Charman partnering with George Clooney and Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures partner…

Guess Who Will Be the Largest Shareholder in the New Disney

With Disney set to acquire film and TV assets from 21st Century Fox, the largest individual shareholders in the reconfigured version of The Walt Disney Co. would be Rupert Murdoch and his family, Deadline.com reports. “The 86-year-old media mogul and…

Sinclair Faces $13.3 Million Fine

The Federal Communications Commission is planning to fine Sinclair Broadcasting Corp. $13.3 million after the company failed to properly disclose that paid programming running on local TV stations was sponsored by a cancer institute, Reuters reports, citing three sources who…

Director Peter Jackson Says Harvey Weinstein Blacklisted Two Actresses

Two well-known actresses who are among the accusers going public with allegations against Harvey Weinstein thanked director Peter Jackson after he revealed in an interview with the New Zealand media outlet Stuff that Weinstein told Jackson to blacklist the actresses,…

Actresses Reportedly Plan to Protest at Golden Globes

At the upcoming Golden Globe Awards ceremony scheduled to take place Sunday, Jan. 7, actresses including nominees and presenters plan to wear black to protest gender inequality and to acknowledge recent allegations of sexual impropriety, according to The Hollywood Reporter….

Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Unveiled — We Haven’t Heard Anyone Use It Lately, Have You?

A lot of people seem to be surprised by the Oxford Dictionaries’ 2017 Word of the Year, which many of us either have never heard or only heard so long ago that we’ve probably forgotten it. BBC News reports that…