Television Advertising Quotes

I do love TV as a medium.

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

Television is not a gimmick.

For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

I used to watch TV in the days that I was on TV. But in that time, streaming has come along. So I can honestly say, I have no idea what's on real-time TV.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

I'm not here to say that I want to change the TV industry.

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

You can do a lot with a commercial break - you can change days, you can suggest the passage of time. So sometimes that's a great thing artistically, to know that's going to be there. Obviously you'd always prefer that people see it straight through, and you don't want them to be taken out of it by advertising, but that's the reality of what's paying the bills here.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

TV's been good to me.

TV has changed everything.

You can’t get to be an officeholder in America without buying television time.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.

TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

You can get on television all the time if you have the money to buy the time.

American politics is money and thirty second spots.

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

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.