Jann Wenner Quotes

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Entertainment and information work well together.

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.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

I believe that in today's media landscape, we can create and distribute content on multiple platforms while remaining fresh and relevant.

The competitive landscape for us is very broad. We see ourselves in the entertainment space. We compete with listening to the radio. We compete with watching TV. We compete with social networks.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

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

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

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.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.