#ratings

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#culture #deliver #delivered #entertaining #give

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#fixated #i #i think #ratings #think

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#home #huge #least #lot #men

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#aware #before #collapse #eat #fans

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#almost #being #competent #every #forceful

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game. ↗

— John Avlon

#country #game #good #into #majority

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#attention #audiences #care #entire #fundamentally

It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings. ↗

— Martin Milner

#better #farther #hollywood #ratings #seems

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate. ↗

— Reese Schonfeld

#attitudes #electorate #guide #i #i think

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#could #damn #equal #four #get