“Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.” ThinkingWayDifferentStoriesTelevisionShapesPressureVery GoodRadioNewspapersLocalsLocal Business Author:Jeff Zucker
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.” PeopleYearsRealPlayUsedActorsRealizingPayRolesCasesAudienceStageTelevisionDramaYears AgoExtraordinaryLocalsHotelChicagoRepresentationTelephonesNever QuitSymbolicGangstersVividness Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.” ThinkingTelevisionMaterialsHugeLocalsOwnersStationsUnfairFeedingMarketplaceCopyrightParasitesFattening Author:Jack Valenti
“Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.” TurnsCuttingCenturyTelevisionTvsAdultsEdgesLocalsHipsNow And Then Author:Tom Shales
“There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.” LittlesShowsTelevisionSeriesLocalsVarietyStationsAfternoonHousewife Author:Jim Henson
“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.” YearsFirstsTwoShowsHouseFiveWeekMinutesTelevisionCostStuckLocalsEnjoyedMealsFive YearsGasTwo YearsViewersGroceries Author:Rachael Ray
“The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.” TelevisionLocalsOnly TimeCoupling Author:Gina Bellman
“Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.” YearsPersonsWarStoriesIssuesTelevisionMajorsNewsAdvantageRootsRadioLocalsGrassRecessionsTelevision News Author:George Noory
“During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.” IfsWorldMightRunningFilmMovingTurnsCultureLeftSunPiecesTelevisionNeededMirrorsRoseCreditLocalsOpeningSunsetOperaReverseSunriseClosingSoapSaving MoneySoap OperasRunning Back Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.” ShowsArtistCitiesTelevisionRegardRadioAppearanceLocalsGenerousExceptionLos AngelesTelevision ShowsMake Up Artist Book:Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies Source: Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies
“The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.” ActorsOpportunityTelevisionTheaterLocalsDoing GoodGreat ActorsTelevision Commercials Author:David Fincher
“I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.” ChildrenKidsCultureTelevisionStoresTheatreLocalsPlusDimesSupermarketsPopular CultureMovie Theatre Author:Robert Crumb
“Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.” YearsMayPersonsWarFormTurnsWalksAttitudeStreetsTelevisionImpactRadioStrikesAidsNewspapersLocalsMagazinesAcknowledgePollutionTurn-onRepressionEpidemics Author:Marge Piercy
“Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!” LongDifficultCitiesCompanyExampleTelevisionLong TimeLocalsVersionsVarietyLong Time AgoProgrammesDivergentNewcastleSubtitles Author:Larry Trask
“I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.” KindCitiesTelevisionLocalsOklahomaOklahoma City Author:Chris Harrison