Les Moonves Quotes

I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

LTE has accelerated faster than most people had anticipated. It really took off very quickly from the time it was introduced. We did have our internal development road map, but we just needed to accelerate it.

By creating fantastic content and spending zero time on audience development, you are certain that you will not succeed on YouTube. You have to focus on audience development as much as you focus on creating content.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

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.'

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

Giving it to the audience is probably the easiest thing. Finding out what they truly want is probably the most difficult.

We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction.

Each segment has to pay off, so you have to look at it in a very, very micro-level and make each chapter in the book, each segment on a TV show, entertaining and informative, and if you do that then a cumulative affect will be success.

I think giving great content out to people is critical, and exclusive, cool content they've never seen before is the best way to go.

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

Content Marketing is all the Marketing that's left.

Every year I try to pitch a show, and I try to do something outside of YouTube, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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 it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.