David L. Wolper Quotes

Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.

You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

I channel surf like probably most people.

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

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.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.