Sentences with phrase «on television audiences»

The aspiring actor honed his craft at the University of Western Australia before making an impression on television audiences with a role in the popular small - screen drama Sons and Daughters in the mid -»80s.

And while you can train yourself to recite a speech without notes, (a skill that's frankly lost on a television audience) being likeable and spontaneous is a tad more difficult.

In the same way that a different message might leave a distinct impression on the television audience, so will a commercial that resonates personally with potential victims.

Not exact matches

Often billed as China's answer to YouTube, Youku is actually closer to Netflix; it's a streaming video site that relies on a vast library of licensed movies and television to draw in a growing audience hungry for the best western and Asian content.

The audience for the television broadcast on Fox will be larger.

After politics seeped onto the football field during the regular season, Super Bowl advertisers are opting to stay far away from anything divisive when they pitch to the year's biggest television audience on Sunday.

The 2015 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is ready for broadcast on Tuesday, with the Angels set to give the mid-tier lingerie brand its biggest PR push of the year to a television audience of millions.

She writes in her post that the partnership with OWN makes clear sense because Oprah always integrated her audience effortlessly when she was on television.

With television audiences diminishing as a result of newer digital mediums, celebrities are increasingly courting the tech giants of Silicon Valley on their recent promo tours.

In August, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, star of original Netflix show House of Cards, told an audience at the Edinburgh Television Festival that, «if they want to binge on something like House of Cards, then we should let them binge.»

Peter Roybal, Head of Mobile, ABC News / Disney ABC Television will discuss how they adapt the formats of storytelling based on the story and their audience's expectations, to create varied audience segments of satisfied returning customers.

But instead of running a nationwide chain of newspapers the Winnipeg native knew he wanted to focus on television, which got him thinking about lucrative niche markets, which led him specialty cable networks that target an underserved audience.

Writes the Viacom spokesperson: «Philippe has doubled the amount of investment in creative programming over his tenure to more than $ 6 billion annually, and has grown Viacom to be the # 1 family of cable networks and the # 1 destination on all of television for reaching younger audiences.

With the reach of 170 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.7 % of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television's unrivalled influence on consumers» purchasing and political decisions.

Local television news programming has shed audience over the past decade, but it still garners more viewers on average than cable and network news programs.

Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the «Tomorrowland» segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering «brand journalism» and «content marketing.»

From there, advertisers are able to reach people who might be underexposed through television, or buyers can up the frequency for TV - exposed audiences on digital channels.

Many inefficiencies in the linear television audience measurement workflow could be vastly improved if we could immediately identify a piece of content or ad displayed on a TV, set - top box, metering device or smartphone app.

A televangelist admitted in front of a television audience that he cheated on his wife, an announcement he made to thwart people he said were trying to extort millions of dollars from him.

To determine which primetime hit was assigned to each state (thankfully reality shows were not included — we're looking at you Jersey Shore state), they factored in «each show's longevity, audience and critical acclaim using info from IMDB / Metacritic, awards, and lasting impact on American culture and television.»

With the development of radio and television, which became mass media in a one - way mode, the message interaction on telephones became overshadowed in the mind of the public by the scintillation of media focusing largely on entertainment for mass audiences.

Moyers's people had swarmed over the Indiana University campus in successive waves of producers, executive producers, directors and associate directors; of lighting people, camera people, sound people and questions - from - the - audience people; had added a participant (Nicholas von Hoffman) to be sure the affair would be telegenic; had phoned the panelists before the event with their own list of topics and ideas; had thrown together a wooden platform just for their cameras, which cameras prevented many in the actual audience from seeing the panelists; had shifted the meeting rooms to meet the exacting requirements for the paraphernalia of television; had fed questions to members of the audience, and instructions «from the truck» to the moderator («move on»); and then had fashioned from 12 hours of tape one hour that might have been made in a New York city hotel room.

«The audience for religious programs on television is not an essentially new, or young, or varied audience.

On the surface, television seems to be a highly developed mechanism for delivering particular audiences to advertisers.

A generation of audiences reared on television is used to animation, emotional appeal, kinesthetic participation, narrative and dramatic structure, and skillful use of an «audiovisual» language.

MTV beams its signals to Asian audiences through one of the channels on Satellite Television Asian Region (STAR TV).

Instead, «news», particularly on television, is carefully filtered, edited and choreographed to fit a pattern — a pattern which meets both the need of society to have its basic cultural worldview reinforced, and even more important, the need of the communication industry to reach and hold the largest possible audience.

I read those words in the mid -»80s, when one of the advertisements frequently on television featured an item of food — I don't remember what — that was unveiled to an audience in exactly the manner Lewis described.

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

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The paid - time religious producers sacrificed that freedom of programming when they made themselves dependent on their popularity with their television audience.

To be dependent on one's audience for support, particularly in a fickle selective medium such as television, means that the gospel must not only be proclaimed, but it must be proclaimed in such a way that it meets with the approval of a large share of one's audience.

For example, in the presence of the advantage held by the paid - time religious programmers, several denominations which had previously cooperated with others in the common production of religious programs have now decided to compete on their own through the purchase of their own television stations, the production of their own programs, and the cultivation of their own audiences.

These services are able to derive on a regular and comparable basis a large body of information on different aspects of the audiences of religious television programs.

While the characteristics mentioned in the previous section dominate in the audience of religious television programs, evidence suggests that these programs are watched on occasion and in some cases regularly by non - Protestants, non-evangelicals, those of higher income and education, those in white - collar occupations, and those who claim no religious interest or church affiliation.

Paid - time religious programming has justified its dominance of the religious television field in recent years by suggesting that with its independent financial resources gained through audience cultivation and support it has been able to overcome the limitations experienced by mainline broadcasters as they worked with the local stations and networks on a public service basis.

These figures certainly do not tally with other research, such as the Nielsen surveys which list the combined audience for all syndicated religious programs on television in November 1980 as 19.1 million adults and children.

It appears that while paid - time religious television programs have achieved a measure of financial independence from networks and stations, their financial dependence on their audience exerts a comparable influence.

While the broadcast evangelists envisage television as a God - given tool by which to reach «the world» with their message, research on religious television programs indicates that the actual audience of most religious programs is highly segmented and that those who watch usually do so for very specific reasons.

The research indicates that the dominant audience of religious programs on American television is people who are already religiously interested and church attenders.

The dominant functions of television, combined with the pressure on stations to maximize their audience, has shaped television programming in America in several characteristic ways: it has led away from in - depth, demanding analyses to an oversimplification of issues and their solutions; it has fed the desire for instant gratification of needs rather than disciplined resolution; and it has tended toward the sensationalization of events and experiences.

In evaluating the influence religious television has or may have on its audience and society, one needs to be aware, therefore, of the perspective from which the subject is being viewed.

Audience figures presented in detail in the next chapter suggest that these syndicated programs have displaced higher - rating network programs, which may also result in a smaller audience for religious programming on telAudience figures presented in detail in the next chapter suggest that these syndicated programs have displaced higher - rating network programs, which may also result in a smaller audience for religious programming on telaudience for religious programming on television.

Stewart Hoover has noted that the greater influence of television lies not in its ability to brainwash or radically change people's minds on particular issues but in its ability to coalesce an audience around a particular issue.

The adoption of purchasing of air - time and audience solicitation as the basis for religious programming on television does not necessarily result in the breaking out of the religious ghetto, but has mainly resulted in religion's becoming more firmly ensconced in it.

Far from being a broad medium of communication, religious programs on television appear to be a specialized programming service for a specialized audience.

The plateau reached in 1977 and the demographic characteristics of the audience attained at this point provide a different picture and a different perspective: that paid - time religious programming on television is not a universal model of religious faith for the future but is primarily a specialized programming service for a specialized audience.

Central to an understanding of what will be the future of religious television in America is the fact noted in the research on audience sizes: that the audiences for paid - time religious programs as a whole reached a plateau around the year 1977.

We recognize that one is being preached in a local congregation of a hundred people, the other on television to a national audience.