Network Quotes

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.