Quotes About Media

I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.

It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.

There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.

Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.

I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.

There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If you think about the Oscars snubbing 'Straight Outta Compton,' in a way, that kicked all of this off.

Facing fewer subscriptions, ratings drops, et al., media is catching on: people don't want endless editorializing. They want the facts, Jack. If you're going to be op/ed, at least be up front about it.

Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.

Publicity ultimately means bigger ratings.

The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.

When you think about advertising, it's understanding that whether it's newspaper, radio, or television, you have to know how to advertise, how to market, because ultimately, everything comes down to ratings and revenue or ratings and subscribers and revenue, whether it's newspapers or radio or television.

Trump might think that Fox needs his star power, and on the margins it's true that Trump appearances and interviews are right-wing ratings boosters. But the network was No. 1 long before he became a politician.

People always talk about media ratings, but you really consume media in so many different places.

The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

I loved 'Breaking Bonaduce.' I was amazed it made it on TV. It was so raw, so disturbing.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.