Mike Gallagher Quotes

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

Air America has tanked because it features a bunch of talentless, angry demagogues who wouldn't know how to entertain a radio audience if their lives depended on it.

When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.

There's not a lot of light on television.

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.

I just don't like reality TV.

If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.

Liberal talk on the radio doesn't perform well because it is not a sequestered to a niche - it's everywhere in the media universe. Conservative talk radio, on the other hand, performs well because the radio is the only place, besides Fox News, that people can go for right-sphere opinions.

I can't stand people who look into the camera and look into the eyes of millions of people and wax political correctness.

Live television is the hottest medium. My passion for sports debate runs hot enough without a camera transporting it into your living room with 10 times more impact.

I refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I listen to a lot of conservative radio when I drive around in my car. I refuse to listen to him because he's just ridiculous, just a clown. I love Rachel Maddow obviously.

As it is with anything, if you have tuned your song well, it will be appreciated whenever it is released, especially now that FM stations and television channels are there ensure that it reaches the audience.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

My radio company has begun calling me 'the happy conservative warrior.'

A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.'

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if you majored in semiotics at Yale. We look down on people we don't agree with. It doesn't serve us well.