American - Businessman | June 28, 1959 -
Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?
Brian L. Roberts
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You have to have a business model you believe in and like.
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I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.
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We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.
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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.
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The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.
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We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.
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NBC News will help define Comcast.
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Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.
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I go back to when we met with the late Steve Jobs. He couldn't understand why we didn't put Wi-Fi in every cable set box. And I literally went home and said, 'Tell me again - what's Wi-Fi?'
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We have a broad, well-positioned company, so when 'Minions' comes out, it can be in theme parks all over the world. We own Fandango. We can advertise on a network. We can have the characters pop up on the Golf Channel.
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If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
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