TV Quotes Africa

 
"If there's one thing Africans do really well, it is the ability to laugh at themselves! Taking advantage of Africa's humorous streak, and incredible storytelling abilities, it is about creating characters, heroes and heroines that kids from Africa can resonate with."
WarnerMedia's Julien Borde on creating relevant brands for African audiences

"For content creators, distributors, and viewers across Africa, this is a good time to be a part of the African television revolution."
Yolisa Phahle, CEO of general entertainment for MultiChoice Group

"My advice would be to create what you are interested in seeing. I hope the show will inspire those who, like me, had never considered animation, to start to explore it to see if it's a platform they would want to use to tell stories."
Zambian writer Malenga Mulendema offers some advice to aspiring writers

"MultiChoice Nigeria will roll out a dedicated Ramadan pop-up channel for the spiritual needs of Muslim subscribers on DStv and GOtv during the Holy Month of Ramadan."
DStv, GOtv offer pop-up channel for Ramadan in Nigeria

"So, you need less number of base stations to deliver services on TVWS and the fact that rural communities are very challenging, does not mean that people in those communities should not be connected."
Austine Nwaulune on Nigeria's plan to use TV white space technology to provide internet

"Mama K's Team 4 supports the idea that anyone can be a superhero, with its story line centred on a group of teenage girls who are recruited by a former secret agent to help save the world."
Netflix orders Africa's first animated action series

"Do you realise if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"
Al Boliska

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. (via Brainy Quote)"
Steve Jobs

"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. (via Brainy Quote)"
Steve Jobs

"Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. (via Book of Famous Quotes)"
Kovacs

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. (via CoolNsmart.com)"
Unknown

"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? (via Quote Garden)"
Nicholas Johnson

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. (via Warc)"
David Brinkley

"Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote."
Aaron Brown

"In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV."
Erma Bombeck

"So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free."
Jason Love

"Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control."
Donna Gephart

"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
David Foster Wallace

"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."
Bille August

"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
George Gobal

"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
T. S. Eliot

"Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens."
Fran Lebowitz

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
Fred Allen

"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."
Margaret Mead

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
Alfred Hitchcock

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
Salvador Dali

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."
Bern Williams

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