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It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. -- John Humphrys
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. -- Dee Dee Myers
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
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute. -- Mary Gordon
Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity. -- Gavyn Davies
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. -- Terry Wogan
I want to do more television and I want to do more radio. -- Anna Benson
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore. -- Will McDonough
I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much. -- Adam Carolla
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. -- James Reston
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society. -- Richard J. Daley
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. -- Peter De Vries
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production. -- Hannah Simone
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. -- Eugenio Montale
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on. -- Victoria Wood
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. -- Galina Vishnevskaya
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had. -- Don Cornelius
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. -- Tom C. Clark
I have Time Warner, and I try to relax a lot and watch television a lot and everything. I really enjoy that. Listen to the radio. -- Roky Erickson
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. -- Michael Medved
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. -- Beverly Cleary
When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.' -- David Gerrold
I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear. -- Robert Krulwich
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. -- Calvin Trillin
I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older. -- John Tesh
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. -- Ruben Blades
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. -- David Gergen
If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television. -- Rush Limbaugh
If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television. -- Rush Limbaugh
I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio. -- Debbie Reynolds
Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you. -- Douglas Adams
Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless -- Steve Allen
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? -- Mo Rocca
I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes. -- Ryan Seacrest
You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials -- Steve Rifkind
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. -- Johnny Carson
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. -- Robert Bresson
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. -- Robert Bresson
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all. -- Imelda Staunton
I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post. -- Tony Kornheiser
Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio. -- Larry King
jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise. -- Maria Franziska von Trapp
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. -- Ira Glass
The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers. -- H. L. Mencken
The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio. -- Debbie Allen
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. -- Milton Mayer
You could tell he (President Ronald Reagan) was an old radio guy. He never once looked at the television monitor. -- Harry Caray
Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot. -- K. D. Lang
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. -- Aldo Leopold
Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio. -- Martin Milner
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. -- Umberto Eco
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television. -- Reed Hundt
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos. -- Martha Stewart
I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it. -- Janice Dickinson
I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me. -- Marc Maron
There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it. -- Joe Buck
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system -- Tom C. Clark
Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads. -- Tim Wu
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images. -- Dick Cavett
It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio. -- Phil Rizzuto
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. -- Edgar Bergen
Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. -- Kent Beck
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. -- Annette Funicello
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless. -- Dan Jenkins
We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms. -- Ray Bradbury
I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things. -- Bernie Sanders
Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has become an absolute monster. -- Tony Pulis
Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. -- Robert Redford
You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television. -- Harry Shearer
It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time. -- Yolanda Adams
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when. -- Bill Keller
Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model -- Adam Schiff
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material. -- David Gerrold
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. -- Jacques Ellul
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records? -- Ezra Taft Benson
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus. -- Donald Sinden

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