Brit Hume Quotes

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

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.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.

I watch a ton of CNN.

All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

CNN was just a glimmer in my eye when I was growing up in Atlanta.

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 watch Channel 4 News every day. I love it. I rarely watch any other news programme. There's just something about it - and I'm not talking about Jon Snow's ties and socks, but I appreciate those, too.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.