And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.
Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'
Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.