Quotes About Broadcasting

Please don't misunderstand, I actually enjoyed the hecticness and the opportunity to cover women's college basketball. But the reality is as a young broadcaster the vast majority of my games came in men's college basketball and my viewership as a fan came in men's college basketball because that was what was available to me.

At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.

SportsCenter' is the legacy brand at ESPN, I had a great year doing the show. But it was not a fit for me because ultimately I had a lot of things that I really wanted to say and wanted to express, and the 'SportsCenter' vehicle is not necessarily set up for that.

Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

I'm stunned at some of the stuff Johnny Miller comes out with sometimes. He is very harsh and frankly I find some of the stuff he sees very disrespectful.

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.

If you think the movie moguls are worried about the possible disastrous effects of TV, you ought to hold the head of a radio exec for a while,

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Broadcasting House was in fact dedicated to the strangest project of the war, or of any war, that is, telling the truth. Without prompting, the BBC had decided that truth was more important than consolation, and, in the long run, would be more effective. And yet there was no guarantee of this. Truth ensures trust, but not victory, or even happiness.

They started with Big Ben. It's always got to be relayed direct from Westminster, the real thing, never from disc. That's got to be firmly fixed in the listeners' minds. Then, if Big Ben is silent, the public will know that the war has taken a distinctly unpleasant turn.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

I could see myself doing more color in the future - I love being able to analyze game by game and share the stories with the players.

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

I am not a television actor. I'm an anchor.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

Can broadcasters please be a little bit more careful in choosing the adverts that they show at half-time in televised football matches? Watching in a crowded pub I, like many other customers, took advantage of the break to visit the men's room and found myself wedged between two complete strangers. Our discomfort wasn't eased when the paper-thin walls failed to muffle a loud chorus of "Go Compare". Clive Pilley Westcliff-on-Sea, Esssex

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

It isn't just a question of keeping her out of the jug. Have you any vague idea of how moral radio is? Goldman would cancel her contract in a minute if this thing broke the wrong way. She'd be all washed up. Radio goes into the home; you've got to keep it clean.

Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.