Nate Torrence Quotes

My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

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

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

When we were kids, if somebody said, 'What did you watch last night?' you would have said, 'BBC Two,' but now they'll just say, 'My mobile.'

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.

As more and more Americans spend their earliest hours scrolling through news alerts and weather forecasts on their smartphones and tablets, morning shows have to adapt, too. And their biggest competitive advantage may be that, unlike an iPhone, they offer some form of companionship.

We have no idea in what way tomorrow's consumers will want to consumer their media.

As soon as the subject moves to TV shows and movies, I'm a total failure. And I'd been paying for all those premium channels for years, but recently cancelled them, since I never watched any of those networks.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.

Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.

Streaming services are very important.

A lot of new stuff just isn't having the same impact as it used to when people would wait for a specific DVD or video to come out and then watch it over and over and over. Now, it's a two-minute clip online and forgotten the next day.

It's hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I'm not one to believe that our culture of TV consumption is changing dramatically. It's just how we consume and where we consume it that's changing.

Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day.