Margarita Simonyan Quotes

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

If you love television and you love news, CNN is the perfect place to be.

I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.

Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

I think its going to be continually tougher on the big networks as more cable channels do really interesting television. The big networks have a choice to make: Do we try to be all things to all people and get the shows that will deliver 20 million viewers a week? Are we the McDonald's of television? Or are we going to try to be more specific?

'Bram and Alice' is the best show I've done so far, and it only aired three times.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

I love doing television series.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

If I'm on a show, then that's my favorite channel.

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.