26 Quotes by Jeffrey Logsdon

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    MTV's constituency is probably more accustomed to outlandish behavior than the prime demographic for a Super Bowl audience. Wall Street would look at that (the controversy and any fine) more as a one-time event, not as a change in underlying earnings power.

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    Monday Night Football is a television institution, if not a cultural institution, ... It's not unlike '60 Minutes' trying to go to '60 Minutes II.' It never really captured the audience.

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    Because ratings were down in a high-single digit level, concerns are about the up-front advertising market, which may be soft, perhaps more for ABC than others. I think analysts have gotten nervous.

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    Go back three Olympics, you were broadcasting four or five hours a day, instead of 15 hours a day, but you still had same expense to cover the Olympics,

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    He's been such a lightning rod for criticism, oftentimes for things that were clearly not in his purview to make better. If theme park attendance goes down because of 9/11, is that Michael's fault?

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    Historical studies would probably show you could get a 10-to-15 percent boost in revenue for the top film of the year, and it drops off precipitously from there.

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    I think they've set the stage in a very positive fashion to now be judged on their fundamental performance as opposed to the historical nightmares relative to the merger and online division.

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    I think cost-cutting is an element of Fox thinking, if you listened to Rupert Murdoch's last few diatribes to Wall Street, ... The cost/rating benefits equation didn't make it onerous to let him go early.

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