Rob Thomas Quotes

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

I know enough to know every time a cable show beats a broadcast show... you've attracted people outside the scope of what you normally reach.

Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable.

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?

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.

Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.

We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K.

It is a fact of broadcasting that you've got to get the big audiences for the channel that you're on.

Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.

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.

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

I don't know enough about daytime, I think, to say anything.

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

Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

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