Randy Jackson Quotes

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

I have a hit TV show.

I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.

'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.

They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

I believe a mini-series has two audiences. The first is the media. Then I go for the television audience.

The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

I don't look at ratings when they come out in the afternoon before the show because I'm focused on that day's show, but I do see the overall numbers.

If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.

I think you can tour the country and collectively reach fewer people than just being on television one time.

On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!

I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.