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If you drop a channel, you’re incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you’re incredibly unpopular.
The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.
It’s a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.
In the case of Comcast, we’re taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don’t need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it’s all speeding up.
We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid – which we now call broadband – the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.
I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
In our case, one of my earliest experiences working in the company was being asked to be on Ted Turner’s board, and I saw that the value creation from owning networks was stunning – new channels, international opportunities, synergy, many things that Turner Broadcasting built for decades.
It’s really important we stay in touch with our customers and try to, over time, have more packages and flexibility than perhaps we have historically offered. And that’s part of that tension that is healthy that is going on in the marketplace.
If you had to pay separately for just PBS, probably, sadly, not a majority of Americans would do that. So there’s many channels, whether it’s Discovery Channel or C-SPAN or many, many others, that just aren’t viable.
Our products weren’t getting some of the excitement they deserved because you were waiting on hold on the phone, or we missed an appointment.
NBC News will help define Comcast.
Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can’t imagine we will change that process.
We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That’s magic.
We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.
You can’t just buy the sports section of ‘The New York Times.’ You take the whole paper.
It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.
