Quotes About Viewership

The content in TV has become more mature and relatable.

Television is a young person's medium.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.

We've been in people's living rooms for a long time... It's lucky that 'I'm a Celebrity' and 'Takeaway' have been going on for so long that they trust us.

Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

Let's be honest, we don't watch 'The Bachelor' as a PSA. We watch it for entertainment.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.

We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.

CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.

My hope is that, in years to come, people will still be watching 'The Clone Wars,' and they'll still hold up. That's my goal - time tested.

Being from Canada, we never had, like, the basketball games live on TV.