Michael Eisner Quotes

The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.

Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

I think that the instinct that people have when they see a beautifully produced web series is that they think it must have been made for television and they just chopped it up and put it online.

Phone companies recognize that the pipes are not enough anymore. You need something to go through the pipes. You need content. I think the consolidation will continue. A huge development is mobility. We want the content where we are....producers need to be where the consumers want them to be.

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

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

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

Why would you want to work in television. I don’t watch television.

Television is taking over the Internet.

Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers.

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

Pay-per-views and television are so fast-paced. It's very hectic.

Streaming services are very important.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

TV people are great folks, but if I said, 'Come and film a beetroot-jar-opening competition,' they would.

To me, mass media is when you are able to use a platform to reach an audience on a large, global scale, and I think YouTube has certainly achieved that and is still finding ways to bring a wider range of content to its audience.

The problem is never the audience, it has always been the distribution. The digital space is proof that the audience is quite accepting.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.