Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.

Chris Carter

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

The arguments in favor of it have a clear political appeal. So cable is taking a la carte very seriously.

The antitrust division is looking at the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the international undersea cable industry.

Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Dennis Rodman

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

Most of the big cable companies provide voice over Internet services that are equivalent to regular wire line phone service. The catch is they don't let customers be nomadic, you can't use a phone number from outside your regular service area.

Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's collaboration with Cable & Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable & Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

We continue to expand our audience, reaching them everywhere they consume media on cable and online.

I think it would be a great improvement for the community, ... The service is already there -- water, sewer, cable TV, natural gas . . . I had three calls about the property just today. That's how hot it is.

We are disappointed but not surprised that the committee voted to turn over the future of the Internet to the telephone and cable industry. Neither of those two sectors contributed to the creative development of the Internet, and neither is known for innovation. They are known for their desire to control what goes over their networks.

Jeffrey Bewkes

I think (if) the cable companies show up with continuing robustness (they) will get revalued.

We do want people to lobby their local cable operators. It's still a time-tested method of influencing them.

George Bodenheimer

We do not have the exclusive national cable rights here.

Ted Sarandos

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

We don't think government should be dictating what kind of cable packages we should offer.

W. S. Gilbert

New York City is a bloodbath with cable competition.

One of the greatest complaints about the cable industry is that they use the fact that they control the pipe to control what gets on. There are a lot of people who feel that's unfair.

Sid Haig

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film.

Walter Reed

If I'm watching television and the cable goes out, I tell myself, 'OK, I'll read a book. Family matters, not possessions.'

I find it maddening, as a consumer, when I'm calling a company that I pay, like my phone company, my cable company, and they refuse to let me talk to a human.

Paul Simon

For those who thought it was going to be some kind of a snow job because it was paid for by the cable industry, it says very clearly we have to do a better job,

Warren Sapp

He's got the TV and the cable and the VCR,

James Dolan

I think it's an affirmation that cable technology is the technology of the year 2000 and beyond,

Chris Murray

We can expect to see fewer deals and higher prices, just as we've seen with the mergers of cable companies.

The purpose of this testing is to cause defects to occur during testing before placing a cable back in service. It forces weak cables to fail during testing.

The people who are helped by this are the UHF stations that are not highly rated. What the cable operators would have liked would have been to take only the more popular stations, keep them on cable and jettison the really obscure stations.

Peter Chernin

We are extremely pleased with Fox's results for the year, particularly at our cable and television station groups,

Elliott Abrams

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

Sumner Redstone

He was the first to recognize the strength of cable programming.

Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.

I am concerned about the possible effects on this developing market of the reduction in the number of cable operators from three to two,

Rhea Seehorn

I didn't have cable when 'Breaking Bad' started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn't refuse to start watching it from the beginning.