Quotes About Broadcasting

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

I'm the best interviewer in the whole format. Except for Howard Stern, I'd put myself against anybody. Because I ask human questions.

You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly.

I'm a news junkie. I generally ad lib it. I find a story I want to key off on, open the mic, drag it in the Dropbox, and they pull it out the next morning.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

In broadcasting, there's a lot of longevity offered to people like Griff Rhys Jones and Stephen Fry, who are polymaths more than comics. We're comics first and foremost.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.

If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like that, we immediately put them onto a list of people who are forbidden from the air.

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.

Hatred travels through the ether. If someone is broadcasting hatred, and you are tuned to that hatred, you will get it; but if you are tuned to love, no matter how many hateful vibrations are sent, you will not get them. You must cultivate love in your heart, for love is the magnet that draws souls to you and it is the dagger that destroys hatred.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society.

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.