Quotes About Broadcasting

It's hard to put into words how much fun it is for me, as a broadcaster, to build something with really smart, talented people.

I really don't like to talk about my financial situation live on stream.

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

A big difference between podcasts and radio is the intimacy. Radio oftentimes feels big and loud. To me, podcasting is closest to that weird late night stuff, whether it's late night love song request lines, or it's some talk radio show where you feel like you're the only person listening to it.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

I was one of three hosts for a daily talk show on the Oxygen network when it first launched in 2000. This was before 'Bad Girls Club,' so don't judge.

I love doing talk shows.

Broadcasters calling a big game are often reminded to let the action breathe. A great moment of a televised game doesn't need any narration, which is why the announcers - the good ones, anyway - shut up at the celebration and let the pictures do the talking.

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.

I went to bed at twenty minutes after one that night, and still the networks were on the air, rehashing the landing, replaying the interviews, offering taped "live" coverage of something that was no more alive than a nightmare.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My journey took me from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland to Los Angeles and then as a broadcaster. I've been fortunate.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Only those who've presented live television really know how difficult it is to make it look easy.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

I'm a television presenter, television is my first love.

Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.