People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.