Jeffrey Bewkes Quotes

I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

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

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.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

We want to give our audiences flexibility in the way they're commercially engaged in the content.

WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.

You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.

Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

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

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

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

We have CBS.com, we have our stuff on iTunes. We feel the wave of the future is getting as much distribution as we can. We feel that we should be nonexclusive and get our content out there.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.