Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Heckerling

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.

David Zaslav

Our unprecedented network and cable coverage this year will provide viewers with a more extensive and interactive Olympics experience including up-to-the-minute updates and medal count.

It is a sold cable channel, it's also a platform of diverse programming interests,

Linda Chavez

I think there's a kind of xenophobic frenzy on talk radio, on cable television, from (CNN's) Lou Dobbs to some of the shows on Fox (News),

Ted Koppel

I think there is a tendency on the part of some of the cable networks to be in a desperate race to be first with the obvious. Can you imagine going to any one of those people and saying, 'Give us three hours of prime time'? It wouldn't happen.

Jason Kilar

I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.

David Charvet

People like reality; I think it's always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go to a coliseum and watch people compete against each other. I think networks and cable channels find it an easier way of producing and putting things together, because people will watch it and it's cheaper.

Charles E. Wilson

People in, say, Georgia aren't sitting on the front porches singing anymore. They're inside in the air-conditioning, watching cable like everybody else.

Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators.

Rich Galen

That entire doctrine has come and gone. Now the doctrine is you respond instantaneously, and where possible with a strong counterattack. A lot of that is because of the Internet, a lot of that is because of cable TV news.

I think it would be a great improvement for the community, ... The service is already there -- water, sewer, cable TV, natural gas . . . I had three calls about the property just today. That's how hot it is.

Dennis Lee

I think this will eat into its cable television revenues as early as the second half of the year.

Mike Johnston

It is our duty to provide storm coverage. It's part of our license - to serve the public. That's one of the differences between over-the-air and cable stations.

David Zaslav

Our partnership with Time Warner Cable will provide viewers with a robust 2006 Olympic Winter Games experience. NBC is committed to providing our distribution partners with unique digital offerings to help them drive their businesses.

Jon Postel

Therefore you need high speed from your house out and the cable companies and the TV guys are just not thinking about it at all.

Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Dennis Rodman

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

George Bodenheimer

We do not have the exclusive national cable rights here.

Ted Sarandos

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

We don't think government should be dictating what kind of cable packages we should offer.

Most of the big cable companies provide voice over Internet services that are equivalent to regular wire line phone service. The catch is they don't let customers be nomadic, you can't use a phone number from outside your regular service area.

Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's collaboration with Cable & Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable & Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

The arguments in favor of it have a clear political appeal. So cable is taking a la carte very seriously.

The antitrust division is looking at the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the international undersea cable industry.

We are disappointed but not surprised that the committee voted to turn over the future of the Internet to the telephone and cable industry. Neither of those two sectors contributed to the creative development of the Internet, and neither is known for innovation. They are known for their desire to control what goes over their networks.

We continue to expand our audience, reaching them everywhere they consume media on cable and online.

We do want people to lobby their local cable operators. It's still a time-tested method of influencing them.

Bob Woodward

Roger Ailes, former media guru for Bush's father, had a message. Rove told the president. It had to be confidential because Ailes, a flamboyant and irreverent media executive, was currently the head of Fox News Channel, the conservative-leaning television cable network that was enjoying high ratings. In that position, Ailes was not supposed to be giving political advice.

Jeffrey Bewkes

I think (if) the cable companies show up with continuing robustness (they) will get revalued.

This new regulatory regime for cable could potentially have devastating impacts for our proverbial 500-channel universe of diverse cable offerings. It very well could be the case that government regulation here could destroy that diversity and drive out some of the smaller niche channels out there, which would find a difficult time surviving on their own in a la carte world.

We're digging in the ground, and we wanted to make sure we didn't hit an electrical cable or anything like that.

There have been an increasing number of outlets as more and more cable networks are demanding television production and original programming.

The consolidated cash flow number was a little light. People expected double-digit growth, and they got 3 percent. But the cable operation, which is the most important unit, is performing very well.