Tim Brooks Quotations

We're seeing the end of an era many of us grew up with and the beginning of a new era where people get their news from many different sources. The days of the uber-analyst like Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings... are gone.

Sitcoms, which are based on character relationships, build a rapport with audiences over many seasons in a way that movies just can't do, ... The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows.

On the face of it, a show about three retired women and one of their mothers living in Miami hardly seems like the kind of thing young America would take to,

I would argue that while there hasn't been that kind of breakthrough series this year, cable has continued to grow nevertheless. Eventually they'll have to come up with something fresh.

He was a class act and a reassuring person delivering the news. You felt like he knew what he was talking about.

The contrast between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson was marked,

As a network abandons a niche, somebody else will come in who's very hungry and at the back of the pack to try to fill that niche. I'd predict that there will be more cultural channels bubbling up.

There's been a lot of hand-wringing in the business about when viewers are going to say, 'Enough's enough,' but they haven't, ... It may never be that commercials drive people away from the set, but it makes them pay less attention to avoid the irrelevant interruptions.

No, I think George Johnson had to march to the beat of the drum -- that was very much in the hands of white America at that time.

Then cable TV entered the picture and suddenly there was a lot more competition. Nowadays, we have premieres coming practically year-round from somebody, whether it's the networks or on cable.

In 1961, Jackie Gleason, who was then at the height of his fame, premiered a game show called 'You're in the Picture.' It was so bad that Gleason came back the next week, sat down on a stool on a bare stage and apologized to the American public for that terrible show.

In those very early days, they had some respectable stuff. What they didn't have was the owned-station lineup.

High culture has never had much of a place on American television.