Television Quotations | Page 3

There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

The problem with not being able to receive an over the air signal is that everyone who has a television set that uses an antenna, as opposed to using cable or satellite, may never see broadcast television,

There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.

The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.

The real issue though to this point, the money that pays for the Olympics, for our rights, is still largely money coming from television advertising. As soon as we see significant money start to come in in fields like the Internet and wireless we'll adjust our policies even more.

There is no doubt Benji has the ability to have a career in television and Eddie did say something to him.

To play on national television and play in a bowl game, we had to get a special waiver from the NCAA. We weren't accredited yet because we hadn't graduated a senior class.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.