James B. Stewart Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

I don't even think in the future, pay-per-view is going to exist. You see Netflix and Amazon and what they're doing, and that's a model I think is going to grow and grow.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

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.

The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.

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.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

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

Television is such an evolving medium.

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!

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

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.

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

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

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

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.