Quotes About Broadcasting

Broadcasting is being replaced by narrowcasting. The difference is that broadcasting speaks to a mixed public, exposing them to a range of views. Narrowcasting speaks to a targeted public and exposes them only to facts and opinions that support their prejudices. It fragments a public into a set of sects of the like-minded.

Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

I am grateful to hockey. As a CBC employee, I would be foolish not to be. Hockey Night in Canada probably pays a good chunk of my salary.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

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

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

My first shift in broadcasting was 2-11 A.M., doing lots of grunt work and running the TelePrompTer for the morning anchors. Luckily, I fell in love the minute I walked into the newsroom, and I've never gotten over that.

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

I think 'On The Air' was a little too bizarre for TV.

I have to get up about half four every morning for the 'Breakfast' show.

Im prepping every day because biggest breaking news in the world or no games the night before, I have a show to do for an hour every day.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

I'm not going to broadcast forever. I'll probably want to do something else in basketball, which will probably be running a team or at least helping run a team.

A lot of times, I think broadcast commentators can get bogged down with stats and personal agendas.

I fantasized being a broadcaster.

I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.