NBC News will help define Comcast. Brian L. Roberts More Quotes by Brian L. Roberts More Quotes From Brian L. Roberts You have to have a business model you believe in and like. Brian L. Roberts like you business believe I go back to when we met with the late Steve Jobs. He couldn't understand why we didn't put Wi-Fi in every cable set box. And I literally went home and said, 'Tell me again - what's Wi-Fi?' Brian L. Roberts understand me late home In our case, one of my earliest experiences working in the company was being asked to be on Ted Turner's board, and I saw that the value creation from owning networks was stunning - new channels, international opportunities, synergy, many things that Turner Broadcasting built for decades. Brian L. Roberts value new company creation We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic. Brian L. Roberts control magic simple way The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie. Brian L. Roberts download coming day you We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future. Brian L. Roberts never future business love I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society. Brian L. Roberts i-think think contribution society Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process. Brian L. Roberts will change process today We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. Brian L. Roberts your new you time We have a broad, well-positioned company, so when 'Minions' comes out, it can be in theme parks all over the world. We own Fandango. We can advertise on a network. We can have the characters pop up on the Golf Channel. Brian L. Roberts own company golf world If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular. Brian L. Roberts unpopular pass drop you What unfortunately happens is we have about... 350 million interactions with consumers a year, between phone calls and truck calls. It may be over 400 million, and that doesn't count any online interactions, which I think is over a billion. You get one-tenth of one-percent bad experience, that's a lot of people - unacceptable. Brian L. Roberts phone you experience people We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content - what we define as this season's content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world. Brian L. Roberts content live netflix world We are going to have a suite of products that you subscribe to - television, high-speed Internet, phone, home security, energy management, maybe even health care - and we are going to have many customers that are going to buy those products directly from us. Brian L. Roberts you internet health home Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came in and said, 'What do you think of Xfinity?' Brian L. Roberts think you said people It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale. Brian L. Roberts great me company perfect Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers. Brian L. Roberts experiences incredible ways those I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant. Brian L. Roberts my-life me experience life Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology? Brian L. Roberts day technology character knowledge I think Jay Leno is fantastic. Brian L. Roberts jay i-think think fantastic
