We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
There is always something wonderful about a live audience.
We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.