"So when you can do it all, what do you do next? Well, we've got good news for you, America, your mornings just got happier, 'cause now it's time to say good morning to Michael as he comes to Good Morning America."
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- GMA announcing officially that former New York Football Giant and Super Bowl hero Michael Strahan will be joining the show.
"I think the Purple Wedding was really meant to be different from the Red Wedding. It was a poisoning and the death was very much about what the result of his death will be in the story, which is expansive. And also the fact that after all of the horrific twisted fireworks of Joffrey, somebody got in to that wedding and poisoned him from the inside. And it’s just that simple and it’s just for that devious. And that also plays in to where things are heading."
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- Game of Thrones director Alex Graves on last nights GOT episode. To Deadline Hollywood.
"Dave has been on the air my entire adult life. [NBC's] Late Night debuted my first year in college. I learned more from watching Dave than I did from going to my classes. Especially the ones I did not go to, because I had stayed up until 1:30 watching Dave. This man has influenced every host who came after him, and even a few who came before him. He’s that good. And I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. Those are some huge shoes to fill – and some really big pants."
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- Stephen Colbert, from last night's broadcast of The Colbert Report.
"It's a huge disappointment, I feel, for us in the business of TV. It takes away an obvious easy story to write about Tiger and one that you know people are going to be interested in. ... The shock, disappointment and the reason he's not here, I think it will present a little bit of a challenge possibly at first. But once the tournament gets going, the Masters carries its own weight.""
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- Paul Azinger, a major champion, a former Ryder Cup captain and an ESPN analyst in U.S.A. Today speaking about the withdrawl of Tiger Woods from the Masters Tournament.
"We finally have a moment when moms, dads and kids all grew up immersed in interactive media and where both parents and their children crave shared play experiences. Parents believe in technology’s positive power."
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- David Kleeman, Senior Vice President at PlayCollective NY writing in today's Cynsiders column about managing complexity in children's media.
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When Megaupload.com was shut down in 2012 by U.S. law enforcement, it was by all estimates the largest and most active infringing website targeting creative content in the world. Infringing content on Megaupload.com and its affiliates was available in at least 20 languages, targeting a broad global audience. According to the government’s indictment, the site reported more than $175 million in criminal proceeds and cost U.S. copyright owners more than half a billion dollars.
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- Steven Fabrizio, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America, on the lawsuit filed yesterday by the major U.S. movie studios against Megaupload.
"The presentation of video advertising that both engages and affects its audiences is both an art and a science. No network would just run ads against an unspecified target demographic without the ability to confirm which audience will actually see the ad or is watching the program in which the ad is offered. The art of engaging a consumer through a commercial break via linear television is an increasingly complex matter and advertisers expect all kinds of flexibility to tell a story creatively."
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- James Ackerman, Executive Chairman, Broadway Systems. Exclusive to Cynopsis in today's Cynsiders column.
"As a longtime fan, I was saddened to hear of David Letterman's retirement. But as Mayor of Los Angeles, I am excited for the opportunity to encourage you to bring CBS' next late night show to our city -- the entertainment capital of the world."
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- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in a letter to Les Moonves, President and CEO of CBS.
"I actually don't know where he is."
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- Dave Limp, an Amazon vice president, on Jeff Bezos's absence from yesterday's announcement about Fire TV. From NYTimes Bits blog.
"In short , the levels of interaction being provided through digital experiences allow viewers to control how, what and when they want to watch. We firmly believe that sports will continue to be the last fixed appointment viewers keep as the rest of the entertainment industry moves to on-demand programming. Watching a game live in real-time never loses its pull and now with both social media and interactive controls as part of the mix, viewers have even more opportunities to enjoy games and the viewing experience in depth and to tailor their watching to their own specific interests. "
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- Chris Wagner, EVO and co-founder, NeuLion in his Cynsiders column for Cynopsis.
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