27 Quotes by Jon Banner

What we do costs an enormous amount of money: Iraq , Katrina, Rita. In order to pay for all that, we need to perform in the key demo. It's how we make our money. It's how the broadcasts are sold.

One thing we know: This is his legacy, to cover foreign news, to cover it aggressively.

Peter Jennings was at the forefront of reporting on the dangers of smoking and tobacco throughout his career, and we are committed to carrying on his work.

For us, this is very much ending our mourning period and trying now to start fresh, to aggressively get back into the game. Peter's legacy is everywhere, in everything we do.

If we all knew what device was going to be the most effective way of getting content five years from now, we could retire. Everybody is competing to get the attention of people and get them to use their device to get content.

He has kept that mostly to himself. I know it has affected him. He's a very compassionate and genuine person and I can tell that it has affected him greatly.

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

Our attention will be focused on this story for a long time to come. One of the things that are challenging to us is that there are so many different angles to this story and places that require our attention.

It does, in my mind, turn the broadcast almost into a special event every night because you now have a much more dynamic broadcast that can respond and react to things much quicker and much easier than one person sitting behind a desk.