Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget
Henry Blodgetis an American businessman, investor, journalist, and author...
crowds done television
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.
hurt people age
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.
essence quality three
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.
people doe bros
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.
zero kings crazy
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.
sports football sunday
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.
thinking years water
I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.
firsts reactions
The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?
home way entertainment
The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.
believe models business-models
You have to have a business model you believe in and like.
children people wife
Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners.
Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.