Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson
Mark LaMarr Thompsonis an American radio personalityand occasional actor, best known for the nationally syndicated Mark & Brian morning show...
ProfessionDJ
Date of Birth1 December 1955
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My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,
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We need to reinvent (BBC Online), fill it with dynamic audio-visual content, personalize it, open it up to user-generated content.
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We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter.
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We have lost a giant of comedy. Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of greats who shaped British comedy in the twentieth century.
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We had a pretty good week as far as injury and blokes pulling up well from the game, and we've got a couple back this week, so eventually it looks as though it's working out a bit,
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We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense.
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It's going to be a completely different style to the one we've just played, ... (The Swans) will be emotionally stressed about the performance because they did everything to win, which was a huge effort from the Sydney footy club.
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Darren Milburn has had a terrific year, so in some ways he could be stiff. Corey Enright was absolutely burning the track up until he got injured, and Joel Corey was having a very good year but got injured.
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As a club, I think we've gone from 15th in 2004 to about eighth or something in conversion from set shots.
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The audiences of tomorrow currently get too little of real value from the BBC and the BBC needs to think how it engages them and reflect their lives better.
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The U.S. military is reluctant to be drawn into a counterinsurgency war. They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon -- the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them in.