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If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.
The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.
The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.
I like cable: you only work four months out of the year and have the other eight months to do movies if you want.
Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.
The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.
Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy.
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.
There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.
Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.
Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.
The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.
Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.
My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.
Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.
In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out for the rest of us.
I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians.
Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.
My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.
You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.
I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
The legend of a cable company trying to break the Internet makes scary bedtime stories for children of telecom geeks, but it is not reality.
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.
When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' is a hugely important movie to me. I remember watching it for the first time on cable when I was about 13 years old.
When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.
Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.