Les Moonves Quotes

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

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.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

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

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

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

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.

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

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

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.