Quotes About TV ratings

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

With feature films, it's a one-time judgment once your film is premiered. Reviews, box office, and then you move on to the next project. With TV, you are being rated and judged weekly for an eight-month stretch.

The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings.

A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.'

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

On TV, only a handful of people can move the meter so to speak - only a handful of personalities can move ratings. LeBron seems to single-handedly affect those ratings.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

TRP ratings affect me. There are times when the ratings are so low that we feel that we could have done something more. But that is about it. I don't stress over it too much.