Bob Schieffer Quotes

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

There's a pace in TV I like.

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

A show like the 'Only Fool and Horses' Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching. But of course it's a different world now, with so many channels. And those kind of figures are really difficult to achieve.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.

I didn't realize how many people watched 'The Tonight Show.'

All my shows airing on different channels have been the top shows.

I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.

You will see nowadays TV's Top 20 and Radio's Top 20 tend to be the same. And then there are films that never reach to mass audience, and because of that, their soundtrack also dies a silent death.

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

Everyone is struggling to compete with how people consume television these days.

I have done hit shows like 'Bhabhi' - 'Mayka' did well on Zee TV; so did 'Chidya Ghar' on Sab TV. So why should I work with a new channel with exclusivity?

The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

I understand that there's going to be a shelf life for 'Jersey Shore.'

Advertisers like shows that viewers like to watch live.

Some people watching CNN were so shocked they started rioting. No, I'm kidding. No one watches CNN.

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.