#ratings

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? ↗

— Robert Byrd

#approval #congress #every #every time #go

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#get #losing #me #our #ratings

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#counselor #did #driving #elected #famous

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#american #college #currently #doing #got

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#around #being #being done #carry #done

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#got #great #interest #management #ratings

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#been #corporate #declines #down #economic

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#because #even #his #interested #less

So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#case #classic #come #country #highest