Cox's Fisher Closes A Chapter

摘要

Andy Fisher is retiring as the president of Cox Television, but as TV stations face perhaps the toughest period in their 80-year history, Fisher remains as excited about the TV business as the day he unwit- tingly entered broadcast news more than 40 years ago. Instead of talking about news, these days Fisher's focus is on the strength of the medium financially. "TV stations remain a high-margin business that will continue to be the envy of a lot of American businesses," he says. "TV stations are operated by just a few hundred people, but they create revenue flow in the [billions] of dollars. "During the transition to digital, owners have been rattled. It's been a period of time where people have had to readjust. But for folks who are going to be in the business for a long time, it's just another adjustment." Fisher is making a big adjustment. He's stepping down just as television enters its next phase-including the final transition to digital, high-definition and the rest.