“As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.” IfsWatchesTelevisionOffensiveViewers Author:Dave Navarro
“I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.” PeopleWorldFeelsMadeDifferencesTelevisionHighestPaidViewersInfluential Author:Cristina Saralegui
“I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.” TwoShowsFightingTelevisionBitterEntitySteelViewersCagesRevenueYoutubeMedievalTournamentsTelevision ShowsRivalry Author:Ray William Johnson
“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.” KindDifferentFeelingsEmotionSuccessfulSadnessProduceTelevisionEmotionalDiscoveryMovedRewardsReactionsGenrePrimeRighteousViewersSentimentalityPathosPrime TimeEmotional ReactionsDifferent EmotionsRighteous Anger Author:Chris Hayes
“To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.” ThinkingWholeTelevisionAreasProgrammingViewers Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“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
“What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.” IfsShowsAirTelevisionViewersDiscretionTelevision ShowsExactly Is Book:Brain Droppings Source: Brain Droppings
“Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers.” IfsTelevisionQuittingViewersYoutube Author:Shane Dawson
“A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.” PeopleRealRealityAbleSituationEventsPossibilityTelevisionDistinctionSteadySensitivityViewersSpectatorsDisturbingUnreal Book:Plug in Drug Source: Plug in Drug
“It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.” ThinkingKindShowsWishTelevisionEntertainmentConsumersLazinessViewersTelevision ShowsPrerogativeBlah Author:Justin Kirk
“TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.” Would BeUsedActorsLostStarsActingAudienceAchieveStageTelevisionTvsDegreesMediumsIntimateShockPeculiarSpontaneousViewersIrrelevantMovie StarClosingInvolvementCasualInner LifeCompletion Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“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
“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.” BrainAudienceTelevisionSticksHolesViewers Author:James Purdy
“Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.” ThinkingWayWantShowsCertainTurnsTelevisionStrangeNegativeLegacyCinemaSci FiViewersTelevision ShowsTurn OffConnotationBarges Author:J.H. Wyman
“The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.” WorldWantEndsWatchesAudienceFansTelevisionNew WorldViewersProgrammersCaptivesWatching TelevisionComing To An End Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.” MindFoundLevelsBrainWatchesStudyInformationTelevisionActivityScientistWavePatternsSteadySlipsParticipationViewersReceptiveAlphas Author:Jerry Mander
“Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe because you want to believe people who love your show are watching every episode, but statistically it was true that people who considered themselves the most loyal viewers were only watching one out of three.” PeopleWantBelieveMadeHardShowsThreeFoundWatchesLove YouTelevisionLoyalEpisodesViewersHard To Believe Author:Tim Kring
“People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.” PeopleThinkingTakenRiskTelevisionSophisticatedViewersCables Author:Todd Lieberman