James Goss Quotations

XM was aggressively trying to hold its own in the face of competition in the quarter.

One of the qualities of independents (channels) is that it allows you to be more creative and more nimble than you can often be within big media companies,

I feel the management is competent, and it's attacking the one most important potential upside element, which is AOL.

From the Time Warner and AOL perspective, it's been a plus obviously that they're getting fought over. It says very good things about the importance and the place at the table, if you will, that AOL represents.

I think AOL Time Warner is worth a lot more than it's trading for,

I think sometimes it's difficult to run something by committee; the management of both companies are strong-willed types of individuals. They both have their own way of doing things. That makes it hard to have the flow you need and to create the sixth network.

Usually you have some perspective on things. But what seemed acceptable at the time, what seemed like the norm, now you're judging people by standards that didn't exist at the time. I think it's worth twice what it's trading for, but you won't get credit for it until some of these clouds are lifted.

Tribune is a logical candidate to tie in. It has affiliates with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, so it already has a major presence in the biggest markets.

Both companies seem fairly confident that they can get it done on schedule by the end of fall.

Big media companies do generally provide a balance and some diversification that provides greater stability. But they are complex companies and maybe that complexity sort of offsets some of their strong values.

This is a business where the infrastructure costs are invested up front and now Sirius and XM are at the point where they are finally able to capitalize on those costs.

They've both been somewhat fringe players, so obviously they'd be a stronger network when combined together.

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

They don't have much choice to reschedule the NCAA, ... The options would be to delay Survivor for a couple weeks or do what they're doing.

It's only for two weeks. The Survivor crowd will probably follow Survivor to a new night, ... It's an addicting show.

It's the end of a chapter in Time Warner's history. Ted Turner is one of the higher profile media icons we have in this industry.

It's sort of a temporary lease on the properties.

The big media players will ultimately have higher stock prices but it's getting out from all these challenges both on the advertising side and the content side that is causing some stagnation in the shares.

The restriction with a lot of the other companies (like AOL-Time Warner) might have involved cross ownership restrictions between a lot of the other types of media, but I don't think that's an issue here.

In spite of his freewheeling type of image, he was the voice of financial reason. Back when he was running smaller companies, he needed to run a tight ship.

HBO took an early lead and Showtime has had to catch up. You can attempt to be the first choice but, with Showtime, they may want to attempt to be the most interesting second option.

Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]

I always like toast in a crisis.

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

The company is already doing some of the things he wants, just not to the extreme he's recommending,