Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are especially encouraged that the legislation thwarts the cable industry's desire to degrade delivery of HDTV pictures to consumers.

Bailey Chase

I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

Ray Bradbury

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

The reason it's important is that that's the key to unwinding some of their cable assets, that is, to sell to U S West New Media some of their cable properties in exchange for more flexibility in the corporate structure.

This relationship with Cable & Wireless is an important step in the execution of Compaq's strategy.

We also know that only wire-line competition reduces cable rates and enhances service. Therefore, let there be no mistake, local governments want competition, as fast and as much as the market and some state laws will sustain.

Iggy Azalea

I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Bill Buford

Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.

Ted Stevens

We put restrictions on over-the-air signals. I think we can put restrictions on cable itself.

You have cable companies out there offering voice service; you have wireless; you have voice-over-Internet protocol. So there are all these other options out there.

Jonathan LaPaglia

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

A decade ago, people would have said this is outrageous consolidation, but today, given competition with cable and other providers, there may be less concern now.

The ones most threatened are local (television) stations and then the cable operators. How much opportunity is there for local retailers to advertise?

Once the power companies had done their job, they gave us the OK to go in, and we were able to go in an do our job. We are hoping to restore all cable within the next week, and this includes Internet service as well. If you have cable (television), you should have Internet service as well. If you don't, please call us.

Coach Cable does a great job planning and the line can carry out what he wants. It seems every time you touch the ball, there's a hole in there if you're just patient and wait for it to open.

Ron White will do just as well as Larry the Cable Guy did. There are a lot of similarities between them.

Satellite does a much better job of marketing their services and targeting cable at the same time.

Drew Lachey

It was there. What else can I grab? She is not wearing anything else! I guess ABC, and their parent companies, don't find my humor as humorous as I do, so, maybe I need a cable show, not network!

These cable systems are in rural areas, so they potentially are not as profitable. AT&T is looking to unload them because their focus is not on rural cable markets.

These cable companies use their operations to present only one side of the issue because they don't want consumers to know there could be a choice for cable TV in this state.

These days, what the cable companies offer and what the phone companies offer is mostly the same.

A year and a half ago, cable took months. They had all kinds of installation problems, and poor coordination with their suppliers.

Jonathan Davies

That's where we're heading. We want to be able to offer the triple play in direct competition with cable companies.

You're seeing a wholesale shift around TV content from cable to broadband.

They took a chance to take a company owned by Comcast. That might end up being a very good thing ... Comcast can promote it -- on its own cable systems -- on ESPN, on Fox Sports Net. Let's see if they do so. That'll say how committed they are.

They said sound was going to kill the movies, that TV would, that home video would, that cable would, that pay-per-view would. Every time -- the hand-wringing! The woe-is-me! And instead what happened was, the pie gets bigger.

A lot of people are learning about our technology for the first time, ... We will be able to have a new nationwide video system that would be launched in competition with franchise cable companies.

A lot of the programs on cable are things that are already familiar to older viewers and that they feel more comfortable with, rather than the new shows being offered on broadcast.

Mary Murphy

This is really the season we're going to see the knock-down, drag-out fight between cable and between the networks,

Marvin Kalb

This is something that is simply natural for the cable operators to do.

Joel Klein

This is the right result and a big win for consumers. DBS service is the first real competitor to local cable monopolies. As a result of this action, the last remaining DBS slot will not fall into the hands of the dominant cable companies.

This is the precedent. This will probably be the template that other cable operators keep their eye on.

This is the owner's manual that they're providing to the cable industry to monopolize the Internet.