Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!
The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.
It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
I don't pay attention to the ratings.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
Chaos is good for CNN.
TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.
I like to be at the top of the ratings.
It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.
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.
What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
The 'Charlo Show' is going to keep going.
Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.
Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.
Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
So many articles said, ''China Beach' is uncancellable,' but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts.
It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.
I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.
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?
