Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Woodward

Roger Ailes, former media guru for Bush's father, had a message. Rove told the president. It had to be confidential because Ailes, a flamboyant and irreverent media executive, was currently the head of Fox News Channel, the conservative-leaning television cable network that was enjoying high ratings. In that position, Ailes was not supposed to be giving political advice.

David Zaslav

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Bill Jenkins

But when the truck came in (to Fischer), it was loaded down. When it came out, it was raised up enough that the phone cable got caught. . . . He couldn't move because it could've pulled the pole or lines.

What is the propensity for people to take on one more monthly bill? Do you really want a service tagged to your watch when you've already got your cable service and your cell phone service?

Robert Klein

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

makes sense strategically, because it gives a cable component to what investors are viewing as the boring, unexciting growth side of the post-split company.

One factor that commonly comes up in towns that install wireless early is that they didn't have something like DSL available. We have DSL, now we have cable modems, now we have several options. Sometimes the good enough is the enemy of the better. The fact that we've got good enough for most people slows it down.

The prices are soaring. With the end of final government oversight of cable rates, the prices will continue to soar, because most consumers do not have a choice. There's only one cable company in their community.

Robert Johnson

The price of cable has gone up exponentially. It's directly a result of a lack of competition.

Douglas McGrath

Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series.

Now you have hundreds of networks that have customers that are demanding original programming. All of these cable networks have some level of original programming.

Kevin Rudd

Mr. Downer read none of the cables which were relevant to this scandal.

Darren Star

Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.

Timothy Noah

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

It gives them a larger reach so they can fight cable in their whole footprint. Now, there's no hiding from AT&T .

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

Rob Thomas

I think its going to be continually tougher on the big networks as more cable channels do really interesting television. The big networks have a choice to make: Do we try to be all things to all people and get the shows that will deliver 20 million viewers a week? Are we the McDonald's of television? Or are we going to try to be more specific?

There's an opportunity that exists in the original, made-for-cable series space, and it seems to us that cable networks are hungry for programming. The creation of Warner Horizon allows us to move aggressively into cable (but) doesn't represent a retreat from our traditional network production activities.

The result: Digital cable and on-demand usage will surge. And the TV schedule will soon be as irrelevant as last night's news.

A big concern, you know. You don't know whether or not they're going to tumble over, with the heat, or if the cable is strong enough to carry the heat or not.

The new PCCW shares are right now being sold in the market. Some Cable and Wireless shareholders have decided not to hold PCCW shares.

Then cable TV entered the picture and suddenly there was a lot more competition. Nowadays, we have premieres coming practically year-round from somebody, whether it's the networks or on cable.

Cliff Stearns

It's not clear how cable operators could insert a label,

Small mom-and-pop shops use DSL or cable just because it is really, really cheap. But a company of any significant size is going to need its service to be reliable.

Jeffrey Toobin

The big criminal case has become a staple of cable news. It is part of the core mission of cable news networks; print media have a much more flexible approach.

James Murdoch

Taiwan is Asia's most well-established and vibrant cable market,

It?s curious that the two people who are pushing the closed-window policy are the two people who own (channels) that need to get on cable systems.

It's ultimately cheaper for cable operators to send phone calls through their network instead of Sprint.

For folks who are used to slower connections, cable modems, and DSL are drastically improving just the speed of getting text-based stuff.

Greg Oden

Everybody wants to show him off, but I don't do that, ... If he wants to lay there, I make sure he has cable to watch and food to eat.

Keith Robinson

It took less than 30 minutes to put the cable back on, but, by state law, we have to evacuate it first. It's pretty quick, but you can't do that with guests hanging in the air.

They've taken the same cable modem delivered to your home and beefed it up. The low-hanging fruit is a perfectly good business.

Jon Katz

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.