Quotes About Broadcasting

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.

They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008.

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

I was working as a print journalist before I gave broadcasting a go, and spent years behind the camera in production while building up on-screen credits, but I know so many others with totally different experiences.

You have to assume once you go online, anything you put there can be made public. Yet while you're online, you feel like it's a private, sacred space. But you're really broadcasting to the world.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

I'd had colleagues tell me, 'You should be calling games.' But to actually have a producer call me and say, 'We want you in the booth,' I was like, What?

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.

My areas of expertise are acting, comedy, radio jockeying.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

On 'Face The Nation,' we can have extended conversations with the president and senators and you need more than just a three minute segment.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.