Charles Osgood Quotes

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.

You would obviously like to be on BBC2, BBC1 all the time.

I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Everything we're doing means there is a much bigger audience that we can reach.

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change