Quotes About Broadcasting

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.

Cris Collinsworth

Sideline reporting was a great way to be a part of the game and develop relationships, but it's no big secret that it's relatively limiting.

My first broadcast partner provided color commentary even though he was totally blind. Leroy McGuirk was a former NCAA Wrestling Champion at Oklahoma State University and long time kingpin of the NWA Junior Heavyweight Division before losing his sight in a car accident in Little Rock in the early 1950s.

When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.

So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long, respectful silences of the olden days, I remind myself that classical music broadcasting was a whisker away from becoming one long silence itself.

I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's job.'

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

Today the term is still used to describe journalism

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

As a broadcaster, I've always taken the approach that I want to be informed. I want to understand. It's easy to mail it in and throw a take out there.

I had a couple of chances to go inside the broadcast booth when I was out of the car in 2016 and loved it a lot.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

You can do TV and radio without the personal insults.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.