Jim Bankoff Quotes

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

YouTube does a better job of monetizing for the creators. Like, that is the home for me as a creator where, not only can my content be seen, consumed, digested, but also they pay.

Despite our hard work and the number of hours we put in, content is the hero of every show.

My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.

We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

I'm a content creator, so I like to read the comments, and I like to engage, because if people aren't interested in what I'm doing, then I'm not doing a good job.

You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.

We're committed to delivering our viewers and advertisers year-round programming with a wide variety of storytelling.

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.