Roone Arledge Quotes

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.

There’s not a single question about television that can’t be answered in one word: money.

This crash is not going to have much effect on business.

Nobody will be worse off financially.

If you had to pay separately for just PBS, probably, sadly, not a majority of Americans would do that. So there's many channels, whether it's Discovery Channel or C-SPAN or many, many others, that just aren't viable.

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.

From our perspective, just narrowly from the financial sector and from our institution, there's nothing good about Brexit.

I lost a lot of money with sponsors.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

Pay-per-views and television are so fast-paced. It's very hectic.

I have got lots of offers from networks for more reality shows.

I feel like every time I tweet, I lose money.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

Leaving people worse off financially is a Brexit outcome nobody supports, whether they voted leave or remain.

You don't have to take my word for it, obviously, but in making 1,000 videos, 98 per cent of them I lost money on. So I know a thing or two about staying true and rising above the money. Because if I was for the money I would be someone who'd put up Coca Cola in my videos left and right.

COVID-19 has upended our economy.

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

Nobody wants to lose Ferrari. And I don't think Ferrari can afford to lose Formula One.

The tough part is when someone asks you to take a pay cut. I don't think that makes sense for a lot of players.

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.