Internet Broadcasting Quotes

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.

'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

If you have talent, I believe that talent will win out. In other words, if you're a good broadcaster, if you're a funny comic, you'll be heard. If you know how to do a broadcast, if you're a good newsman, if you can see an event and describe it, you're going to be heard and you're going to be seen. So there's always room. Now with cable and satellite and Internet, it's endless. You could blog, you could be your own talent.

Really, having a show freely available online is like having your book in the library. It's wonderful; it's ideal.

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.