Quotes About Ratings

As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.'

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

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.

I don't pay attention to 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.

Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

Times are harder there right now. I think it's been well publicized. We are - the show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be. I want to make it better.

Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

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.

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.