Quotes About Broadcasting

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

wondering how many tens of thousands of days have passed since BBC One last showed a program that anyone not on medication would want to watch.

We see women on the field; we see them interviewing players, we see them coming out of the dugout. But if you put them in the booth - like, hold up, wait a second - you haven't been there before. This is different.

My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of 'Good Day New York,' and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

Jessica Mendoza

I'm not a shock jock at all.

I don't care about Joe Schmo with two Twitter followers saying bad things to me, but if the guy I'm sitting next to on the telecast thinks that way, that matters a lot to me.

Don't get me wrong, there are good presenters. There's Graham Norton and Johnny Vaughan and Sara Cox.

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

Does a red 'Radio Wagon' require an FCC license?

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

I've been in TV for years and years.

Public broadcasting makes our nation smarter, stronger and, yes, safer.

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.