I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings.
What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
In some ways, being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants.
In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.
There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.
A Brooklyn-Miami matchup would bring great ratings and that's what this is all about for the NBA and the league offices - bringing in as many dollars as they can.
Show Me The Funny' was not very successful ratings wise, but the right people saw me.
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
First of all, very few people listen to Hugh Hewitt, radio show, that`s the good news. Check out the ratings.
Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.
If we have close, great racing like we have, then the ratings will take care of themselves.
As an actor, my job is to perform to the best of my ability. Success or the ratings of a show are not in my hands. But yes, people's expectations can be unnerving.
I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.
If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.'
For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.
Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.
They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings
When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.
Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.
President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.
The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
People always talk about media ratings, but you really consume media in so many different places.
Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.
Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.
What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"
If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.
Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.
Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.
Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.
Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.
Companies need to weed out drivers who dont drive well or have got poor ratings from the customers.
What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.
Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.
You don't need to make shows about sex and drugs and violence to get ratings.
Wrestling equals ratings. It seems sometimes that TV stations don't like to make money.
I don't know if people say ratings don't matter... they sure as Hell matter. Like, you want to win.
The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.'
Financial pressures, the demand of ratings, the changing tastes of the American public all led to new decisions in newsrooms about what to cover and how.
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