“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.”
Orson Welles
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx
“I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.”
Jon Stewart
“My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.”
Peter De Vries
“They say 40 percent of the revenue from network television is on Thursday night, so we're talking about hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions at stake, ... Not to be accused of being cruel here, but `Joey' is down 59 percent from `Friends' in [advertiser-coveted viewers ages] 18-to-49. . . . 59 percent. OK?”
Leslie Moonves
“This is an incredibly exciting evolution for CBS and network television — video on demand is the next frontier for our industry,”
“There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,”
Brad Adgate