Bonnie Hammer Quotes

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.

The competitive landscape for us is very broad. We see ourselves in the entertainment space. We compete with listening to the radio. We compete with watching TV. We compete with social networks.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

We want to be a consolidator, not a seller, and we want to continue to explore the kind of targeted entertainment, targeted audiences, that I think are happening and emerging in every country in the world.

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.

The Indian television industry has catapulted into a huge business. Films, however, have not lost one shred of charisma or commercial lucrativity.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

I'm not here to say that I want to change the TV industry.

I believe that in today's media landscape, we can create and distribute content on multiple platforms while remaining fresh and relevant.

I think what's so great about TV is I don't know if all these things were planned at first, or if they see the fans' reactions to things. They really do listen to what the fans want, and feel strongly about, and push for, so all these things are happening organically.

I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are.

I am very excited about the TV medium and the Amazon-Netflix medium. It has been so liberating to work on these formats.

Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

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.