Gene Green Quotes

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

If I'm on a show, then that's my favorite channel.

I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.

As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

When you think about advertising, it's understanding that whether it's newspaper, radio, or television, you have to know how to advertise, how to market, because ultimately, everything comes down to ratings and revenue or ratings and subscribers and revenue, whether it's newspapers or radio or television.

Once you give a politician five minutes of free airtime, he’s going to go somewhere else and spend the money he saved at your station.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

We have radio and TV in every single part of Mexico. And in every one of the 185,000 schools of Mexico there is an electronic blackboard connected to the Internet—every school.

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Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

Who wants to hear that he is wrong when he can be told that he is right? …. We are losing the ability to change our mind because of our media.

There evolved a new media definition of civility that privileged "balance" over truth-telling—even when one side was lying. It's a real and profound change.

I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

Strange thing, this television.

Chaos is good for CNN.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

I don't know why people feel popular actors avoid doing mytho shows. Aren't they also doing good? Sometimes such shows give you more fame.