Broadcasting Quotes - Page 6

• If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

  Gordon Smith

  Communication, Air, Favors

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• The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

  Cathy Hughes

  Basketball, Color, Tragedy

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• You've given it some thought, you've tried to prepare as well as you can, but you're reacting to what you see so you can't really prepare that much. It's purely live broadcasting which is very nerve-wracking but hugely rewarding. The game finishes and eventually, maybe an hour later, you're all finished.

  Jill Douglas

  Games, Nerves, Hours

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

  Willard Scott

  Jobs, Best Job

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• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  J. G. Ballard

  Home, Reality, Needs

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• I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

  Cathy Freeman

  Nike, Australia, Publicity

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• I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.

  Steve Kerr

  Coaching, Ownership, My Thoughts

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. March 13, 2007.

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• Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.

  Eric Idle

  Python, Dvds, Cds

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python'". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.

  Paul Goodman

  Stupid, Communication, Mean

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."

  Astra Taylor

  America, People, Rose

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

  John Madden

  Football, Years, Coaching

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