Cable Subscribers Quotes

You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

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

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

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.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.