Chris Whittle Quotes

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl - 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be stretched into three and a half hours or more of money-making commercials.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

What good is freedom of the press if people can't read a newpaper?

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

I watch NY1 every morning and have Pat Kiernan curate my news stories.

Chris Wallace is probably the most of an exception because his program, 'Fox News Sunday,' also airs on Fox broadcast stations. So he doesn't feel as many of the same ratings pressures to please the right wing audience versus all the rest of the programs.

Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.

I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good.

I don't read the paper.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.

Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.

When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.

And I sometimes find that members of my family are reading completely different news from what I'm reading, because they're not reading general interest newspapers at all. They're getting all their news from certain Internet sites that are rather political.

Our news is Fox News. It's a cable channel and has nothing to do, frankly, with the entertainment area of the company. It's the model of how this company was launched, and there are a lot of independent stations and Fox O&Os who have hugely successful news that our programming is the lead-in for.

One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.

Roger Ailes, he's incredible. He's the one that created 'The Five' and came up with the idea for it.

Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

I am the host of 'The Next Revolution' on Fox News.

PMC's constellation of multi-platform entertainment brands continues to be a leader in entertainment news.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.