Terry Wogan Quotes

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

I love radio! I think radio, done right, can have more influence and have a greater connection with people and be more deeply meaningful than another medium like TV, which is on all the time and you're paying attention to it half the time.

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Movies are movies, television is television.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

There's not a lot of light on television.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

Radio has always been just disgusting.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

I don't watch 'TUF.' I don't watch it because I don't like how they show me.

Our aim was to be playable on both AM and FM radio - something no one had done in a while.

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.