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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.