Broadcast Media Quotes

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Actually, I don't get to do it (watch 5 or so news shows) every day, but I manage to do it at least 5 times a week. And the rest of the time I'm doing interviews. I do an amazing amount of interviews.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

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

Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I don't have a TV licence. I don't watch except on catch-up.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

Radio has always been just disgusting.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

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.

I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, before moving on to CNBC and NBC.

Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

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

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.