Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Leo Hindery

He's one of the greatest visionaries many of us will ever know. Without CNN, the cable industry would never have matured and evolved as it did. The rest of us were putting in wires. Ted gave us something to watch.

Because DSL helps us to retain customers, it also makes it less likely that these customers will sign up for competing cable voice services.

Because of our current relationship with our cable companies, it wouldn't be unusual for Sprint to have ongoing discussions with these partners.

Because of 24-hour cable news and online news, the campaigns are played out in real time.

By 2010, it will be the cable companies and wireless companies' worst nightmare,

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.

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

The crux of the discussion is who owns the rights and who can give the rights. Cable operators don't have the rights. Content companies have to get compensated or they'll find a way to get compensated.

Mike Nichols

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.

The key story at the cable unit continues to be their digital telephone product.