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.

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

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

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

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