Ross Levinsohn Quotes

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it's going to have to be more competitive - there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.