Quotes About Broadcasters

#1. Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

Bart Gordon

#2. If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

Robert McChesney

#3. We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

Will.i.am

#4. Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

Malcolm Turnbull

#5. You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters," bemoaned the report.

John Seabrook

#6. I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

Harry E. Sloan

#7. For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

Evan Davis

#8. One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

Ken Loach

#9. We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. There are a bunch of ways that we can be complementary to broadcasters.

Dick Costolo

#10. There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

Bob Costas

#11. For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

Fred Upton

#12. In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

Wadah Khanfar

#13. Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.

Chris Hegedus

#14. I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.

Joe Bowen

#15. Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Tony Benn

#16. In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Andrzej Wajda

#17. Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'

Charlie Ergen

#18. I would never be one to critique the announcers when I watched games. I try to watch the play and listen to the broadcasters and what they are pointing out. I was never one to say this one was good or bad.

John Madden

#19. International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

Bryan Fuller

#20. The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

Marshall McLuhan

#21. I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

Gary Lineker

#22. If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

Charlie Ergen

#23. For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

Gordon Smith

#24. People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day.

John Tesh

#25. Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!

Ray Bradbury

#26. Our laws and institutions are excellent, but the population is not yet ready. They must develop their views and need to be provided with the right information. We now also have private broadcasters and many are very critical of me, hostile even, yet they operate freely.

Yoweri Museveni

#27. There's a reason why very few people listen to Catholic radio, very few people watch Catholic TV. It's because there's no quality to it and so it's like, if you put quality there, if you're real broadcasters, you make it entertaining.

Lino Rulli

#28. I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for.

Jeremy Hunt

#29. Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

Reed Hundt

#30. The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Robert McChesney

#31. The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

Robert McChesney

#32. Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

Charlie Ergen

#33. Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers.

Subhash Chandra

#34. Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.

Eddie Trunk

#35. Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.

Emmett Shear

#36. The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.

Tony Benn