Broadcast Television Quotes

I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.

My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

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.'

Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.

I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

I know enough to know every time a cable show beats a broadcast show... you've attracted people outside the scope of what you normally reach.

A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.

Gone are the days when everyone had to tune in at the same time and channel each week to watch the newest episodes of a favorite show.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audience, particularly young viewers who are now looking at cable television. 'Tonight' is an old show. CBS has reruns, and having a public affairs series like 'Nightline' on ABC is a big mistake.

We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content - what we define as this season's content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

I've done a lot of Fox shows since then - Married with Children, Living Single and a whole bunch of other Fox things.

Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.