Zitat des Tages von Brian L. Roberts:
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.
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.
NBC News will help define Comcast.
We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.
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.
The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.
Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.
You have to have a business model you believe in and like.
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.
I think Jay Leno is fantastic.
We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content - what we define as this season's content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world.
We are going to have a suite of products that you subscribe to - television, high-speed Internet, phone, home security, energy management, maybe even health care - and we are going to have many customers that are going to buy those products directly from us.
We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.