Jim Nantz Quotes

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

Bill O'Reilly is smooth. He's one of very few broadcasters I know who can squeeze a weeks-long news cycle from one incident and make it entertaining regardless the time stamp.

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

It is every producer's dream to be part of a dedicated, hard-working team that produces an outstanding broadcast like the 'CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.'

Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.

When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.

My first shift in broadcasting was 2-11 A.M., doing lots of grunt work and running the TelePrompTer for the morning anchors. Luckily, I fell in love the minute I walked into the newsroom, and I've never gotten over that.

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

Breaking news on live TV is a roller coaster.