Quotes About Broadcasting

I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would write, produce, do live shots. Yeah, I loved it. That's how I cut my teeth in the business.

I have no broadcasting training. No one's ever said to me, 'This is how you read a Teleprompter.' They just pointed to it and said, 'It's over there.'

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

I feel quite lucky to have the platforms I have on both television and radio.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

It's not saving the world or anything but I still get such a rush from live television.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

I would love to host a television show.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

It's the hardest job in telly as a newbie. You're writing standup every night on your own and presenting live TV. It's like a really tough apprenticeship in front of two million people.

If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.

I am 47; I think I must be one of the oldest female newscasters on telly. There's not many of us who still get to work regularly for this long.

The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years.

I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.

Mills, who had become a nightly fixture on CNN, Fox

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio in fact it pays the bills.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.