Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by David Zaslav

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman David Zaslav.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
David Zaslav

David Zaslav is an American media executive who currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and president of Warner Bros. Discovery,. Zaslav spearheaded the transaction between AT&T and Discovery to combine with WarnerMedia and create the combined Warner Bros. Discovery in April 2022. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and president of Discovery, Inc. beginning on November 16, 2006 and ending on April 8, 2022, when it was merged with WarnerMedia.

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.
One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.
I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.
If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding. — © David Zaslav
If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.
We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.
If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.
To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.
People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.'
If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.
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