"John Hendricks" is the founder and former chairman of Discovery Communications, a broadcasting and film production company which owns the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet networks, among other ventures. On March 20, 2014, after 32 years at the helm, he made public his decision to retire early from the board and leadership of Discovery Communications after the annual shareholders' meeting of May 16, 2014, and he moved on to lead the new large ontaking, Curiosity Project.

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The next wave of media is to unleash the power of serving people's special interests. Every time I walk into a Borders bookstore, I spend a lot of time looking at the magazine rack ? because staring at you are all the passions of America. The bride who is about to get married, there is a magazine for her. And for the person who is a little older, there are wonderful travel and leisure magazines.

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It's been our experience in Texas and Virginia that competition results in lower prices. It's certainly a restraint on increases.

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The big challenge with produce versus tobacco has been the marketing.

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If they can streamline the process so young people realize the importance of attending school, that's important.

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We are putting all the elements together for a hugely successful league, and we are very optimistic and confident we will not be disadvantaged in any way, ... Our investment group is fully capable of getting this league going and running it.

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