Hugh Hefner Quotes

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Television is taking over the Internet.

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.