Top 80 Nancy Dubuc Quotes

We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners.

As a global media company, A+E Networks continually seeks to create new and exciting content that will attract audiences today, tomorrow, and beyond. By investing in Vice, we are thrilled about our potential to further deliver content that meets the demands of the latest consumption trends.

Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices.

It takes a long time for things to get off the ground.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don’t take risks, you’re dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers’ rooms.

It’s hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I’m not one to believe that our culture of TV consumption is changing dramatically. It’s just how we consume and where we consume it that’s changing.

Historically, we’ve had to think in increments of 30 or 60 minutes. And now we have to think in increments of six seconds to six hours and everything in between.

Beautycon has done an incredible job growing and evolving their business into a major player not only in the experiential marketplace, but also the digital content and ecommerce businesses.

We’d all like to be in the business where we don’t have to report our numbers, too. You’re dealing with a Netflix and an Amazon that don’t have to report their viewership. They’re not sharing those numbers, so how do you work with a creative entity to renegotiate future seasons when nobody has metrics?

In this rapidly changing media environment, business transformations need to be closely linked to communications strategies.

When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write.

Writing a check is easy. The opportunity for real change happens when there’s a person who comes to you with real passion to create a movement.

I’m a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

When you meet a veteran, thank them for their service.

Live news teaches you some incredibly strong lessons: that every day is a new day, and it’s never too late to fix something.

TV is our window on the world. It’s a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey.

To address what seems like an endless cycle of gender inequity in media, I believe we need to think beyond what our industry has already tried to do through mentorships and internships. We need to stop talking and start moving the needle, and one solution is to simply give women jobs.

A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told.

It’s always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.

It’s an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren’t the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about.

Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There’s nothing stopping us from trying to do that on a week-to-week basis.

Hearst makes smart investments and partnerships across important industries, and HearstLive is the perfect opportunity to highlight the amazing innovations coming out of all of those brands.

The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.

At our core, we are a content company. That content has to be the very best. You can’t be a company of this size and be doing what everybody else is doing.

It’s a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I’m very ADD, and my report card always said, ‘If only she performed to her potential.’

‘Cinnamon Girl’ is a game changer for our network and is exactly the type of show we want to deliver.

As a former college athlete, I know the importance of sports in the lives of women and girls, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to join forces with NWSL and U.S. Soccer to ensure professional women athletes are elevated as the entire country can watch and be inspired by their strength and athleticism.

I’m a very goal-oriented person, and work is really rewarding. It’s how I take care of my family, and ultimately, I’m never going to let that responsibility fall to anybody but myself.

I am here to tell you, TV is not dead. Rather, it is constantly evolving as we are. My view is that we are in the next Golden Age of content. If AOL, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Yahoo felt TV was dying, they would not be so eager to play in our sandbox. It is, after all, TV content that’s driving their business.

The History brand has long been a supporter of not only our troops but organizations that support our troops.

You can’t manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we’re structured has really helped us grow.

There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control.

I have an innate passion and competitive streak to win and to create, and I want our team to be better than everybody else. Some people thrive in that environment, and some people don’t.

I know that when I’m watching a drama that I love, I’m disappointed when it’s over at the end of an hour.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn’t talk about it, and one would.

My focus – even before becoming CEO – has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.

In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They’re talking to a generation we’re struggling to connect to as an industry.

‘The Client List’ represents everything we want to be – fresh, exciting, and original with attitude.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it’s old.

When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

We’ve learned that you can’t just put your promos up in a digital environment and expect the consumer will accept that as shortform content. It needs to have a unique point of view and style and execution that is tailored to that platform.

With a strong foundation in scripted programming firmly established by ‘Army Wives’ and ‘Drop Dead Diva,’ Lifetime is aggressively expanding its drama series development plate with powerful programs from creative auspices who have strong pedigrees in producing stand-out programming.

I would love to see more swings in areas that we haven’t explored. I can’t necessarily tell you what that is – I think you know it when you see it – but I think we’ve had a lot of the same-themed shows in broadcast, but those shows are still performing.

‘The Hatfields and McCoys’ is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.

It doesn’t make any sense for us to do a scripted series if it’s not going to be big, so we have to be really disciplined about them.

My heart has always been in programming and marketing.

I’m enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women’s Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.

I interned at NBC News and had a great experience there in both New York City and Washington. After graduating, I got an entry-level production job at PBS in Boston. There, I developed the bug for programming and production.

If you look at the coverage of female sports and athletics across any of the broadcasters that participate in league rights and/or sports programming, women are underrepresented, and it’s a chance and an opportunity for Lifetime to support that movement and the importance of athletics and competition for girls and women.

I think it’s important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of the iceberg under the ocean that keeps it moving, and then it’s important to take those swings and see if we can ignite a spark with new audiences.