Britain Quote by David Attenborough

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize…

— Bob Hope

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who…

— Jonathan Zittrain

We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.

— Frans van Houten

When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had…

— Mo Ibrahim

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to…

— Dan Harmon

Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different…

— Astra Taylor

I started in television in the U.K., and I've always wanted to get back into TV.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle…

— Paul Virilio

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial…

— Anonymous

When television first came on, it had all the comedy.

— Fred MacMurray

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

— Francis Ford Coppola

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