Jeff Zucker Quotes

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Jeff Zucker

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 9, 1965

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

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It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.

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Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

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More traffic means more advertising dollars.

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Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.

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We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

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The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.

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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

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I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

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The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake.

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I don't regret putting 'The Apprentice' on television.

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If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

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If you love television and you love news, CNN is the perfect place to be.

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The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.

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It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

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I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, which is what I think Vice's calling card has been, CNN's digital properties reach far more young men on a weekly basis than Vice does.

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Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.

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I have had a unique relationship with Donald Trump. I'm also the one who put him and 'The Apprentice' on the air at NBC. I've known who he is and what he is for a long time.

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In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out for the rest of us.

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CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

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