QUOTABLE

“It wouldn’t have been 11 hours; it would have been a couple of hours in an evening. And Dan Rather would have walked from behind an antebellum column in a sweater. If Ted Turner had had it, all my black-and-white photographs would have been colorized. There would have been an ad every six to eight minutes, and pretty soon the Time-Life ads would become indistinguishable from the program.”

--Ken Burns, creator of PBS’ “The Civil War,” on what it might have been like broadcast on a commercial network,