Radio Quotes - Page 20

My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.

Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had to be cut to fit the allotted time. I am happy to provide this elaboration to correct the record.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.