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" My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios. "

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" Writing a check is easy. The opportunity for real change happens when there's a person who comes to you with real passion to create a movement. "

Nancy Dubuc

Writing

Passion

Opportunity

" There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control. "

" It doesn't make any sense for us to do a scripted series if it's not going to be big, so we have to be really disciplined about them. "

Nancy Dubuc

Big

Sense

" The best advice I give to young people starting out is choose your boss. Regardless of gender, I think it is important to have someone who supports you and lets you take risks without fear of failure. "

" There's still too much filler, copycat programming that's out there. We work so hard to pioneer new ideas, and then those ideas are just regurgitated by other networks. That's not good for anybody, I think. That's not good for our business. That's not good for our audience. "

" I run a creative company, and the best way to support creatives is to make them fearless and willing to take big swings. That is an important part of our culture at A&E Networks. "

" You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow. "

" I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes. "

" If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television. "

" I think the culture and DNA of our organization is to take risks. "

" 'The Client List' represents everything we want to be - fresh, exciting, and original with attitude. "

" We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline. "

Nancy Dubuc

Timeline

Than

" It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored. "

" A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told. "

" We have a powerful portfolio of brands that are well-positioned for future growth, both domestically and internationally. "

" I think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of the iceberg under the ocean that keeps it moving, and then it's important to take those swings and see if we can ignite a spark with new audiences. "

" My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment. "

" When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are. "

Nancy Dubuc

Too Much

Just

" You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything. "

" So much of our audience is on mobile and online platforms, but there's something special, unique, and unexpected about engaging with such great content at the street level. "

" Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling. "

" It's my job... to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don't do it gratuitously. "

" What someone does when viewing content on a tablet is different than the lean-back mentality of watching on the big screen. "

" The History brand has long been a supporter of not only our troops but organizations that support our troops. "

" Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices. "

Nancy Dubuc

Looking

Choices

" I think that the strategy around FYI is really a corporate strategy, and that's that every one of our brands that we invest in have to matter and that we need to commit to building brands and investing in those brands, or we need to get out of that business. "

" We love the Vice guys; we believe in them. We're investors. We believe in them, in the creative work that they've done... What they built is incredible. "

" If you're going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you're speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what's important and what we're paying attention to. "

" To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power. "

" Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least. "