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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.

Disney-ABC Upfront Gets a Bump From Two Key Ad Categories

Disney-ABC’s upfront ad sales have gone better than expected, with the company posting gains in volume in high single-digit percentages across broadcast, cable and kids television, MediaPost reports. Helping to push the results is a strong second-quarter scatter market, with…

Imagine Shuffles Key Exec From Movie Side to TV

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s production company Imagine Entertainment is doing a high-level executive shuffle, bringing Anna Culp to the TV side as executive vice president of Imagine Television, Deadline.com reports. A veteran of 19 years with the company, Culp…

AMC Launches Premium Service

AMC just took the wraps off a new premium service that will be offered initially as an upgrade for Xfinity TV customers. Offered in partnership with Comcast, the ad-free service, AMC Premiere, will cost subscribers $4.99 a month. “Fans of…

AMC Launches Premium Television Viewing Option for All Xfinity TV Customers

Press release from AMC, June 29, 2017: Comcast and AMC today announced a new upgrade option available initially to Xfinity TV customers offering an on demand premium expression of the network. Fans of hit shows like AMC’s “The Walking Dead”…

‘World of Dance’ Pops, Locks and Taps Its Way to a Second Season Renewal

Press release from NBC, June 29, 2017: “World of Dance,” which was the #1 regular timeslot premiere of 2017 on the broadcast networks in the 18-49 demo as well as the most-watched summer alternative series debut on cable or broadcast…

Canceled Series Roars Back to Life for One Last Hurrah

A series whose cancellation sent shock waves through the show’s loyal fan base will return after all — but only for one two-hour final episode. The show is the Netflix series “Sense8.” The show’s co-creator Lana Wachowski sent out a…

Cable News Host Exits Network

A cable personality who has spent time working for each of the big three cable news networks is out of a job after a short run at MSNBC. Greta Van Susteren, who had her own show on CNN before her…

Channel Commemorates 70th Anniversary of News That ‘Rocked the World’

An event that happened 70 years ago will be commemorated with a series of programs to be televised by Destination America. The programs mark the 70th anniversary of news out of Roswell, N.M., that launched a worldwide obsession with UFOs….

Pregnant Teen Faces Up to 10 Years in Prison After Killing Boyfriend in YouTube Stunt Gone Wrong

Tragedy struck a young Minnesota couple trying to achieve YouTube fame, leaving a young man dead and his pregnant girlfriend charged with manslaughter. “Over the past several weeks, Monalisa Perez of Halstad, Minn., and her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III, began…

‘American Idol’ Bringing Back Key Players

ABC’s revival of “American Idol,” which wrapped on Fox last year after 15 seasons, will share a lot of key players with the original series. Variety reports that producer FremantleMedia “has quietly begun to draw a number of ‘Idol’ veterans…