Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget
Henry Blodgetis an American businessman, investor, journalist, and author...
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The company believes in one service with multiple devices...the proliferation of devices could actually be a demand driver for broadband due to the cost of additional phone lines.
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The environment continues to worsen versus our expectations, and we continue to think the seasonally weak first quarter will be the toughest quarter in terms of year-over-year growth. We also continue to expect the market to strengthen in the second half of the year, when the impact of the dot.com bubble has worked its way out of the system.
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Although a settlement as described would be positive for the company, we believe it would be premature to conclude that the company's legal issues are behind it.
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All these stocks work in waves. What goes up fast can easily go down fast. But the people who are putting money into K-Tel aren't looking for numbers, but they are playing a stock that is on fire.
team people
It's all about who your team is and who your people are.
successful people program
The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.
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Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.
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Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.
thinking self too-much
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
quality too-much easy
There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.
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Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.
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Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.
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This sounds crazy, I know, but you can make a billion dollars - very few people do - but you can make a billion dollars on a product. It can be "Lion King," it can be "Simpsons," it can be "Family Guy," who knows what it is. Or you can make zero. But you can't make a billion dollars if you don't own it.
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People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.