Suzanne Fields Quotes

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

[The Weather Channel] is the most watched cable channel in America. I'll repeat that. It is the most watched cable channel in America. They were worried about the terrorists immobilizing us, and a portion of our countrymen watch weather. 'Kay, you don't get any more immobile than that... unless you're in a goddamn coma. That means you're saying, "I'd go to the window, but it's too far." If you want to know what the weather is you go to a window and stick your hand out and if you want to know what the temperature is you drive by a bank.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.

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.

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.

I really like cable T.V.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

The Nashville Network, that's all I would watch as a kid.

Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.

The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable.

I love HBO and Showtime, especially Showtime. I'm a huge 'Dexter' fan, and I love 'Weeds.' That would be cool to do a recurring role on a show like that.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

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