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Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. -- Reed Hastings
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up. -- Leslie Moonves
Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly generate more than $30 billion in economic activity. -- Gordon Smith
I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens. -- James L. Brooks
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough. -- Mike Rogers
The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes. -- Jason Segel
Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs. -- Douglas Brinkley
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. -- Reed Hastings
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. -- Milan Kundera
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. -- Carl Hiaasen
I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate. -- Pete Cashmore
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college. -- Chris Rock
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business. -- Leslie Moonves
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred. -- Simon Mainwaring
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing. -- Jack Dorsey
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. -- Bill Gates
One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio. -- Vint Cerf
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. -- Howard Rheingold
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. -- Carl Sagan
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it. -- Ira Glass
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. -- Mike Wallace
Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate. -- Mark Cuban
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. -- Sam Donaldson
I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek! -- Tom Heinsohn
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal. -- Bob Costas
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. -- Craig Venter
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4. -- Rachel Joyce
Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions. -- Seth Shostak
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. -- Gary Ackerman
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. -- Annie Besant
Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. -- Shel Israel
My fame is due to broadcast television. -- John Hodgman
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. -- Byron Dorgan
A free public broadcast license is a privilege. -- Bart Gordon
Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success. -- Drake
It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain. -- Dennis Miller
My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast. -- Harry Caray
What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off! -- Milton William Cooper
There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity. -- Noah Hawley
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. -- Ernie Harwell
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified. -- Roberto Fontanarrosa
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. -- Clive Thompson
I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting. -- Kate Bosworth
Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success. -- Will Smith
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years. -- Allen Ginsberg
First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. -- Maria Bartiromo
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right. -- Barry Diller
The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network. -- Mark Burnett
We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel. -- Brit Hume
It's no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. -- Tina Fey
If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people. -- Mackenzie Astin
Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet. -- Marlee Matlin
If I win, I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. -- Donald Trump
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice. -- Mark Coleman
Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years. -- Tina Yothers
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast. -- Ben Bradlee
Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world. -- Steven Wright
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players. -- Ernie Harwell
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. -- Chuck Palahniuk
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe. -- Hanoi Hannah
Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids. -- Richie Havens
Great opportunity for technology/media companies to meet the movers and shakers in the broadcast and media industries. -- Kay Koplovitz
Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend. -- Josh Mathews
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes. -- Nigel Rees
I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too. -- Beth Mowins
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to? -- Donald Sterling
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them. -- Hanoi Hannah
I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure. -- John Rabe
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. -- Dave Brubeck
I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges. -- Michelle Gielan
If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it. -- Dan Rather
Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things. -- William Kristol
There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. -- Hanoi Hannah
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. -- Jack Smith
I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV. -- Holly Madison
You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news. -- Peter Lynch
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television. -- Reed Hundt
The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market. -- Chua Sock Koong
Melania Trump has not said what kind of visa she had, and her husband's campaign did not respond to NPR's inquiries before broadcast. -- Melania Trump
Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear. -- Jeff Jarvis
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers. -- Gordon Smith
The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news. -- Derek Webb
Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated. -- Dave Zirin
I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television. -- John Hodgman
So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong. -- Al Leiter
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories. -- Tom Brokaw
Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming. -- Gordon Smith
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed. -- Damian Kulash
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. -- Jane Smiley
History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming. -- Gordon Smith
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. -- Theodore Parker
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it. -- Martin Bashir
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp? -- Milan Kundera
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything. -- Bob Hope
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted. -- Matthew Barney
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me. -- Carl Hagelin
If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio. -- Max Levchin
Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife. -- Marty Glickman
I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game. -- Curt Gowdy
A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . . -- R. W. Apple
Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important. -- Darren Star
I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage. -- Frances Stark
The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And broadcast shows tend to be more mainstream or middle-of-the-road. -- Robert Greenblatt
Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #â?? RIP6MIX -- Erol Alkan
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio. -- Kenny Marchant
When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media. -- Mo Ibrahim
That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate. -- Frank Lampard
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability. -- Harry Caray
Know that positive change is possible. It might not happen right away, but if you change your broadcast to them, that can have an effect on how they view the world. -- Michelle Gielan
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence. -- Edward R. Murrow
I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television. -- Stephen J. Cannell

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