12 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:17:12.515 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- What was that all about, Ed?
- This is not the time, Max.
- Why wasn't I told about this? Why was I led up onto that podium and publicly humiliated in front of the stockholders?
- Now, goddamn it, I spoke to John Wheeler this morning and he assured me the news division was safe.
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