“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .” YearsRunningMovingNightGivenSportsTelevisionFootballProductsSmartAffairFinancialEntertainmentMagnificentLooking BackMondayRevenueLove AffairReconcileFeesRetainingMonday NightMonday Night Football Author:George Bodenheimer
“Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work.” NeedsStatesHelpingUseRememberLawUsedRealizingCommonWatchesFocusCarProductsBenefitsToolsEntertainmentCommon SenseConsumersDriversNavigation Author:Gary Shapiro
“The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.” PeopleWantFeelsDifferentBigsValuesSocialCommunityMediaProductsBeatsEntertainmentSocial MediaLifestyleLayersDrummerChunksFacilitateTakeaways Author:RuPaul
“Having ones image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once youve let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.” YearsSometimesProductsEgoSkinsEntertainmentBonesValuationSkin And Bones Author:Jack Gleeson
“Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.” ChildrenPlayUseProblemFormReadingAnswersTeachViolenceTelevisionMaterialsProductsBlessingOffersBenefitsSellsConstantExtraordinaryEntertainmentEducationalMediumsDaily LifeInteractionConsumptionTechnologicalViewersStimulationAmerican SocietyGreat EducationalEnrichmentTechnological ChangeAnswers To Life Author:Kenneth Keniston
“Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.” PeopleFeelingsFashionProductsEntertainment Author:Glenda Bailey
“All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.” PeopleWayFirstsLongArtEnoughProblemEyeFormSidesForgetTelevisionTvsProductsRight NowEntertainmentAdvertisingCommerceEmployedCandyAdvertisementsSeparatingE CommerceEye Candy Author:Chris Hardwick
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.” PeopleHas BeensUsedPurposeProcessSidesImaginationPowerfulNumbersTakenModernEffectsIdentityProductsIndustryImpactProfoundEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersCorporationsSoleEroticModern SocietyEntertainment IndustrySide EffectsCommercialization Author:Robert Lawlor