In this rapidly changing media environment, business transformations need to be closely linked to communications strategies.
I love it when a man knows his place - right, ladies?
I run a creative company, and the best way to support creatives is to make them fearless and willing to take big swings. That is an important part of our culture at A&E Networks.
'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.
You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.
You have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control.
It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.
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.
We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.
A+E Networks has been my home for over a decade. I am so proud of these brands and my A+E colleagues who are truly the best in the business.
We're trying to create the connections of today that become the next generation's memories of tomorrow.
We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.
Panna is focused on the intersection of premium video content and digital product to deliver great experiences. Given those are areas of focus for FYI, we are extremely excited to partner with Panna.
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.
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.
You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.
I think the culture and DNA of our organization is to take risks.
If you're going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you're speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what's important and what we're paying attention to.
We don't see the Lifetime brand as just a television brand. We see it as a female media brand. It has to represent what she is interested in, up and down the spectrum, in all kinds of content.
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.
A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told.
One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done.
The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.
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.
We were an entertainment brand, and if we were going to compete in an era of incredible growth in the cable industry, I felt we actually needed to be entertaining.
The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine.
