Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group. — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go. — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing. — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
