Andrew Tyndall Quotations

The only place I've seen an equivalent velocity would be on the tabloid entertainment shows.

She hasn't got any track record in the evening. She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts.

She hasn't done hard news for years, but I'm absolutely confident she knows how. The question is: Does she want to do it? I don't think she does.

She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that.

She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts. It's an awful lot of money you're spending on her, so just to break even you've got to increase your audience by a significant amount.

If they were going to get more they were going to get it by now.

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

Basically what it shows is that NBC is not confident that Matt Lauer can carry the show in the short term until a new partner gets up to speed.

I can't see how that would be an improvement. In her heart of hearts, I think she wants to be a serious journalist. And, there's no room for serious journalism in the 'Oprah' hour.

I don't think she's got many great skills as an interviewer, but she is really good, coming from ESPN, at thinking on her feet and reacting to images, ... She brings that sporting background of joking and being part of a gang, and that's exactly the atmosphere they're trying to create.

For the time being, they can't do anything other than to act as if he was on sick leave.

If that's the way you're going to be growing your audience in the future, by innovating in terms of what medium you're going to be using, I don't see that hiring a celebrity broadcaster is going to help you with that strategy.

He is to ABC what Bob Schieffer is to CBS, someone who has been in the shadow of the main anchor for years, and fully qualified to step in.

People are realizing that traditional mainstream media has had its opinion, tone and attitude eradicated excessively. It's taken this long for the networks to learn from Fox's success.

Matt has really blossomed. He?s come into his own. I think Matt can carry the show while they break in a new co-host.

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

The only reason these sorts of stories get the amount of coverage that they do in the first place is that everyone is rooting for a happy ending. People let their optimism for a good headline get in the way of the ... facts.

There have always been a few of these stories that had a special thing about them,

Being the lead face of a network news division is still the Holy Grail of broadcast journalism.

There's no reason why CBS News can't be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don't do it by saying the future lies in television.

A few hotheads went overboard on this, but not the media as a whole.

After a slow start in the first week, The Early Show has offered the heaviest coverage in the last two weeks.

This is someone who cares about what the future of his organization will look like and who will represent it. He can't go back on this plan.

They have always been very careful to groom replacements in-house, teach them the house style and basically have them fit into the ongoing mechanism that exists already.

They had her flying around with the Thunderbirds, and obviously that was a high-profile story for her, but that's not the kind of thing that's going to turn heads.

There was a time with broadcast television's economic model when it made a lot of sense to spend a lot of money on celebrity journalists. But now, we're in an era of media fragmentation, which is only going to get more extreme.

They realized that they were losing credibility by being too tabloid.

It's about time the morning shows got caught for making journalistic misjudgments.

Interviewing has replaced reporting as the high-profile position.

Generally speaking, it's the wave of the future. But the future will not arrive on November 7. This is a stepping stone for the future.

Generally speaking, it's the wave of the future.