Keith Olbermann Quotes

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

I've been in television for a little bit, and when people are attracted to what you've created, you get very excited because of the numbers. The business side is very exciting.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.

Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.

I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

By any measure, NBC is a corporation.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.