Bill Carroll
Bill Carroll
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A lot of the building is rotted and, to me, it's an unsafe and ugly building. If Sharon (Kroeger) were going to fix it, then she should have fixed it.
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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.
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They're in good shape. They gain from the perception of a turnaround. I'm sure everyone's going to be looking at how they capitalize on that.
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This is a rebuilding year. Next year is going to be the huge turning point. The one positive they'll have is NFL Sunday night football. That could be a game changer for NBC.
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No matter how a network is doing, when that final evening of female figure skating happens, people are going to be watching. Advertisers that want to be in the Olympics are going to be in the Olympics.
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That the ratings are likely to be down is almost inevitable. Event programming is not yielding the breakout ratings it used to in the past.
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The only way you find out is the legacy. And a legacy is not a year or two; a legacy is 10 years.
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His genius has been promotion and scheduling. Some of the pieces were in place, but if you don't exploit those pieces and don't schedule them correctly, you could have the best show on television and no one knows and no one sees.
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The audience has not shied away yet. But it's early in the game.
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They went in a different way. There was a lot of speculation focused on them finding someone who fit in the Meredith Vieira mold and they obviously didn't go that way.
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It's almost like you're drinking hot coffee that's too hot, and you burn your throat, but you do that every day for six or seven weeks.
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Not everyone can host a talk show. She's proven she can talk to Tom Hanks or the woman who has had her mattress for 50 years. And she relates to them in the same way.
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This is a highly anticipated show and it should be. She's a bigger-than-life character,
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All of this is positioning, ... The networks are trying to say 'we're not going to cede this exclusively to the cable networks.'