Radio Vs Tv Quotes

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.