Football and television are like the couple running in slow motion at each other on the beach. They form the perfect marriage.
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Reality TV comes along and it proceeds to marry with every other type of program and have offspring. We've got reality TV married to a talent show 'Nashville Star' and 'American Idol.' And now I think the same is happening with home improvement shows.Robert Thompson
Everyone was saying that ... network news was a dinosaur. Given the amount of attention to this story, I think it demonstrates that people still care about network news. It's not dead yet.
Robert Thompson
The Next Action Star and Starlet were bad ideas because you can't deliver that. Even on The Apprentice, you can't turn those people into captains of industry. You can, in fact, say We're doing a show on the Food Network and whoever wins gets a show on the Food Network. How can we do that We're the Food Network. These are networks that can do what they promise to do.
Robert Thompson
There was a sense that everything we were hearing we'd heard before. This was like a rerun. ... So much of this had already been on, there were no bombshells dropped.
Robert Thompson
I think what NBC has figured out is what the model of doing big events is going to be.
Robert Thompson
It's a policy to honor donor intent. It's a double-edged sword and it's one we don't like to have to encounter, but we understand and do our best to let people know we've reached our fund-raising goals in those instances.
Robert Thompson
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