Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is all about the cable industry running scared. They know that there is enormous public support for ending their monopoly. People in New Jersey want choice and they know it, so they are doing anything they can to stop what's coming.

The cable operators are going to be compelled to carry the NFL network. Their subscribers want NFL programming. They will be heard loudly if the cable companies provide niche channels with gardening shows and not the NFL Network.

Orrin Hatch

The cable lines will have to be kept open, and I think this memorandum of understanding is a step in the right direction.

The cable liner is pushing out and stopping the accelerator pedal from going back to its original position.

The cable is 500 yards that way, ... But the cable company won't run a line over here for just one customer.

Paul Allen

The cable infrastructure provides an outlet for providing multimedia directly into the home.

The cable companies are concerned about their profit margins.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sally Field

I really like cable T.V.

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.

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.