Quotes About Broadcasting

It doesn't matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren't any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always 'hot.'

The last thing we want is for radio to say that they can't afford to play our artists and turn off the pipe.

In broadcasting, especially 'cause people are more public, it's hard to be like 'so what are you making?' Finding that information is huge when you're negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you're in the same ballpark.

Dick Vitale always used to say to me, 'Remember, this is an entertainment medium.' People are not tuning in to a game to know how smart you are about basketball; they wanna enjoy it. And it took Dick years of saying that for me to settle in and say, 'It's also okay for me to have a little fun on the air.'

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

I guess when I got to MSNBC in 2009, I brought Bernie Sanders to cable probably more than anybody else.

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

I was always passionate about cricket but to talk about the game in front of cameras was another thing.

I always thought I would be the person who sat in the chair for 12 hours. Then I realized there are only three people who do that job.

I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.

It is a fact of broadcasting that you've got to get the big audiences for the channel that you're on.

Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.

I'd hope that when Channel 4 started, 'The Last Leg' was the kind of show it wanted to be putting out. I think they're really proud of it.

I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

Fighting on HBO and Showtime, people had to pay money to watch them and a lot of people who love boxing, they didn't have those channels.

I used to do TV in the 1990s and the medium was not so huge at that time. The number of channels was limited.

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television.

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that.