Quotes About Broadcasting

The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics.

People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out.

Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests them.

I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. - and vice versa.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

The Times Group had already sued to prevent Arnab from using his catchphrase, 'The nation wants to know'.

In television, there are so many things between you making a joke and the audience seeing it. It's like an assault course.

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

You have to give an element of performance on television.

Radio is about emotion.

Oh, I still get a little anxiety when I'm doing NFL live for ESPN.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

I don't watch ESPN.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.

Viewers don't want you to walk the fence - they do want a point of view - and that's what we bring.

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

What can I ask the owner that I won't ask the GM that I won't ask the coach that I won't ask a player? I want to get something for the viewers at home.

Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic.

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.

Fox News is a virtual public square for conservatives.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.