14 Quotes by Garth Ancier

We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for her. We're trying to break that perception, because obviously our median age is not 14.

John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.

We're trying to make this a little bit of a hotter network, a little bit of a younger network.

When you have this many cable networks, this many sources of video and now the Internet, you're not looking for things that appeal to everyone anymore. You're looking for big niches.

Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with,

Even the biggest hits, even The Sopranos on HBO, even Desperate Housewives is 20 million viewers. We're in a country of . . . 297 million people, almost 300 million. That's a pretty small chunk of it.

The show will lose $16 million this year.

They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is a smaller group.

They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an adult can relate to that,