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"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
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"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."
"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
"The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated."
"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
"Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit."
"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."
"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
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"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."
"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."
"Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions."
"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention."
"Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you."
"If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters."
"What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly."
"The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills."
"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services."
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