Burnie Burns Quotes

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

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

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.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

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.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

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.

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.

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

I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

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.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

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.