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And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV 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.

With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

Everybody's got cable.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.