Famous Quotes & Sayings

All of this is positioning, ... The networks are trying to say 'we're not going to cede this exclusively to the cable networks.'

The massacre in the DSL market has only been good news for the cable market.

Small mom-and-pop shops use DSL or cable just because it is really, really cheap. But a company of any significant size is going to need its service to be reliable.

Coach Cable does a great job planning and the line can carry out what he wants. It seems every time you touch the ball, there's a hole in there if you're just patient and wait for it to open.

Jonathan LaPaglia

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

A decade ago, people would have said this is outrageous consolidation, but today, given competition with cable and other providers, there may be less concern now.

The ones most threatened are local (television) stations and then the cable operators. How much opportunity is there for local retailers to advertise?

Each cable is about 3-feet in diameter, and within the cables are thin strings of wire that actually make up the cable themselves.

Each year of the 10 years has been equally competitive for different reasons, ... Those early years were the most competitive in terms of securing subscribers, because in Optus Vision we had someone who was laying cable down in the same streets that we were.

Ron White will do just as well as Larry the Cable Guy did. There are a lot of similarities between them.

Satellite does a much better job of marketing their services and targeting cable at the same time.

At some point on the Hudson River, you might have 154 miles of fiber-optic cable that connects remote sensors to a central point. For researchers, that would be an invaluable source of information. For students, it would mean they could sit down at a personal computer and type in latitude, longitude and depth of water and actually see on their screens what's happening in the river.

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Diversity? They don't have diversity on cable. They can't show you diversity on the cable dial.

Robert T. Bakker

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming.

Consumers want choice, and this silly suit by the cable industry is nothing more than big cable's latest tactic to thwart it.

They took a chance to take a company owned by Comcast. That might end up being a very good thing ... Comcast can promote it -- on its own cable systems -- on ESPN, on Fox Sports Net. Let's see if they do so. That'll say how committed they are.

They said sound was going to kill the movies, that TV would, that home video would, that cable would, that pay-per-view would. Every time -- the hand-wringing! The woe-is-me! And instead what happened was, the pie gets bigger.

A lot of people are learning about our technology for the first time, ... We will be able to have a new nationwide video system that would be launched in competition with franchise cable companies.

A lot of the programs on cable are things that are already familiar to older viewers and that they feel more comfortable with, rather than the new shows being offered on broadcast.

You're seeing a wholesale shift around TV content from cable to broadband.

They are setting up a separate entity to provide video services, cable television, telecommunications services, and internet services. So they will be a competitor to any cable company or any phone company in this area.

It's a tragedy for everyone, particularly the families, the ski area, the cable car operators and the Marines as well, ... set out to determine culpability in a fair, open and thorough way.

Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.

Steve Erickson

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.

Corbin Bernsen

Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there are 20 cable networks and so many ways for films to be exhibited. It's an exciting time for actors, writers, directors, and producers.

Every dial-up customer we convert to D.S.L. takes one customer off the table for cable modem. We have a price for every budget.

David Brown

A couple years back, it was the '60s, then the '70s, ... We go as cable TV goes. If TV Land's got it on ?

Once the power companies had done their job, they gave us the OK to go in, and we were able to go in an do our job. We are hoping to restore all cable within the next week, and this includes Internet service as well. If you have cable (television), you should have Internet service as well. If you don't, please call us.

Drew Lachey

It was there. What else can I grab? She is not wearing anything else! I guess ABC, and their parent companies, don't find my humor as humorous as I do, so, maybe I need a cable show, not network!

These cable systems are in rural areas, so they potentially are not as profitable. AT&T is looking to unload them because their focus is not on rural cable markets.

These cable companies use their operations to present only one side of the issue because they don't want consumers to know there could be a choice for cable TV in this state.