1 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:44.988 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- And, by the way, the next time I send an audience research report around you'd all better read it, or I'll sack the fucking lot of you, is that clear?
- I'll be out on the coast in four weeks. Will you set up a meeting with Laureen Hobbs for me?
- Sure.
- But the business of management is management.
- And at the time CCA took control of the UBS TV Network it was foundering with less than 7 percent of national television revenues, most network programs being sold at station rates.
- I am therefore pleased to announce I am submitting to the board of directors a plan for the coordination of the main profit centers. And with the specific intention of making each division more responsive to management.
- Point one.
- The division producing the lowest rate of return has been the news division with its $98 million budget and its average annual deficit of 32 million.
- I know that, historically, news divisions are expected to lose money, but to our minds, this philosophy is a wanton fiscal affront to be resolutely resisted.
- The new plan calls for local news to be transferred to owned stations' divisions.
- News radio would be transferred to the UBS Radio Division and, in effect, the news division would be reduced from an independent division to a department accountable to network.
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