David Zaslav Quotes

United States, Chief Executive Officer
January 15, 1960

David M. Zaslav is the president and chief executive officer of Discovery Inc., a position he has held since January 2007. Most recently under Zaslav, Discovery acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, in a transaction which closed in March 2018. The two companies comprise a world class portfolio of entertainment brands comprising nearly 20% of the ad-supported pay-TV viewership in the U.S. and more than 7 billion monthly video views.

If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.

David Zaslav
- World
- Growth
One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

David Zaslav

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

David Zaslav
- Business
- Strong
We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

David Zaslav
- Up
- American
- Science
To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

David Zaslav
If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

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- Good
- Business
I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

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- Life
- Time
- She
People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.'

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- People
- Strong