Rupert Murdoch Quotes

There's not a lot of light on television.

Five years on TV is a really, really long time.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

I don't have TiVo, and I actually don't watch a lot of TV, honestly.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

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.

Nowadays, television has taken over big time and I'm really enjoying my stints there.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

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.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

Television is not a gimmick.

Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

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

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

The future of American film lies 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.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

There's a pace in TV I like.