Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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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.

There's a security issue with cable because of its party lines.

There's an opportunity that exists in the original, made-for-cable series space, and it seems to us that cable networks are hungry for programming. The creation of Warner Horizon allows us to move aggressively into cable (but) doesn't represent a retreat from our traditional network production activities.

The result: Digital cable and on-demand usage will surge. And the TV schedule will soon be as irrelevant as last night's news.

A big concern, you know. You don't know whether or not they're going to tumble over, with the heat, or if the cable is strong enough to carry the heat or not.

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.

It's ultimately cheaper for cable operators to send phone calls through their network instead of Sprint.

For folks who are used to slower connections, cable modems, and DSL are drastically improving just the speed of getting text-based stuff.

It's the cable operator that has most of the cards.

Mary Murphy

This is really the season we're going to see the knock-down, drag-out fight between cable and between the networks,

Marvin Kalb

This is something that is simply natural for the cable operators to do.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.