He didn't care if Howard Beale was the number-one show or the 50th. He didn't really care if the Beale Show lost money. He wants Howard Beale on the air and he wants him kept on.

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You can hear this line at 01:53:35.209 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- How did it go?

- Mr. Jensen was unhappy at the idea of taking Howard Beale off the air. Mr. Jensen thinks Howard Beale is bringing a very important message to the American people. So he wants Howard Beale on the air and he wants him kept on.

- Mr. Jensen feels we're too catastrophic in our thinking.

- I argued that television was a volatile industry in which success and failure were determined week by week.

- Mr. Jensen said he did not like volatile industries and suggested with a certain sinister silkiness that volatility in business usually reflected bad management.

- He didn't care if Howard Beale was the number-one show or the 50th. He didn't really care if the Beale Show lost money. He wants Howard Beale on the air and he wants him kept on.

- I would describe his position on this as inflexible.

- Where does that put us, Diana?

- That puts us in the shithouse, that's where that puts us.

- Do you want me to go through this?

- Yes.

- The Beale Show Q score's down to 33.

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