Broadcasting Quote by Anonymous

I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit…

— Jonathan Meades

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

Even if someone wanted a purely free-market, competitive media system, it would require extensive government regulation to set up those markets. All our largest…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be…

— Reed Hundt

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…

— Roone Arledge

“In effect, the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access by their contribution to reducing the media's costs…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side…

— Bill Lawrence

Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly…

— Gordon Smith

Now, the one thing that's clear is that we need nonprofit, noncommercial media - not just broadcasting - more than ever in the United…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.

— Lachlan Murdoch

I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which is superior…

— Edward R. Murrow