Inter-Active/Cable Sound Bites

Sonic The Hedgehog (an interactive video game with a story) sold over 4.5 million cartridges last year; that's over $450 million -- no movie ever came close."

-- Tom Kalinsky, SEGA

"Viewers will become users as we shift to interactive digital services. Each user/viewer will have a computer generated personal television character or navigator which will assist them by knowing their interests and offering them customized choices."

-- George Lucas at The National Cable Television Assoc. Convention in San Francisco, 6/7/93

"When this happens, the whole theory of network programming goes out the window . . . Programming is going to have to stand on its own . . ."

-- John C. Malone, Telecommunications, Inc. at the same convention

"The secret to survival lies simply in programming. Ideally, I'd like to own both a network and a studio."

-- Ted Turner, ditto

"This is not touch football. It's tackle... (and) it's every man for himself"

-- John C. Malone, later. . .

"A department store is a happening, like the Super Bowl or the World Series."

-- Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes, upon announcing his partnering in the new MACY'S channel