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.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

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

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

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.