Sentences with phrase «television audience in»

But whereas most seeker churches work with the models of the shopping mall and the television audience in designing their space and worship service, Fabian likens worship at St. Gregory's to a rock concert, which he calls the modern secular experience that most closely resembles the divine liturgy.

Dennis, in a 1962 study of the radio and television audience in Detroit.

Despite being a blowout, Sunday's Super Bowl XLVIII was the largest television audience in American history, with Nielsen reporting that 111.5 million U.S. viewers watched the game.

She will next be seen on the big screen starring with Shirley MacLaine in Mark Pellington's The Last Word and by television audiences in the much - anticipated revival of David Lynch's Twin Peaks.

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.

Football games are the most dependable ratings - grabbers in television, with viewership increasing as the audience gets smaller for traditional network fare.

The Rational Group, based in the low - tax Isle of Man off the coast of Britain, is also a producer of live poker events and poker programming for television and online audiences.

Twitter gives companies the opportunity to gain access to a global, and in some instances, mass niche audience, something that television broadcasts can not do.

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.

Not surprisingly, Trump joked earlier in the week that the Democratic debate would fall flat with television audiences while he promised to live - tweet what he predicted would be a «boring» event.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

He said that the Internet had allowed the company to «reinvent television,» by giving viewers the freedom to watch what they wanted, when they wanted it, and by allowing content producers to reach a global audience more easily than in the past.

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.»

In an era of dwindling ad revenues and splintering audiences, Glee represents an emerging revenue model for broadcast television, where a show does not need to be in the Top 10 — or even the Top 25 — to make moneIn an era of dwindling ad revenues and splintering audiences, Glee represents an emerging revenue model for broadcast television, where a show does not need to be in the Top 10 — or even the Top 25 — to make monein the Top 10 — or even the Top 25 — to make money.

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.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

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.

It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage, award - winning production, and ability to aggregate the largest audiences in U.S. television history.

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.

Instead of holding the televised debate in a sterile and controlled television studio, I would love to see the party leader's demonstrate their debating skills in front of a live audience.

A live audience would add an atmosphere of unpredictability and would force the leaders to speak to both the voters in the room and those watching their television screens.

In the 1990s, television shows such as Japan's Doraemon, the robotic cat, entered the Chinese market and captivated audiences with its time - travelling adventures.

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.»

There is consolation in the fact that the Times is bought by less than one out of twenty people in the New York area, and the audience for television networks and movies has been declining for years.

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.

While the audiences for paid - time programs have grown in the past decade, the programs do not attract a large audience within the relative terms of the television industry.

Al - Jazeera, the Arab television station, reaches an audience of forty - five million Arabic speakers, but the total number of Muslims in the world is now close to one billion.

Changes in the nature of religious television in the 1960s and 1970s can therefore be seen to have been a function of a historical coincidence of a number of related factors: social conditions, government regulation, audience response, and general trends in religious culture.

It was recently nominated for three Emmy awards and has already aired in 10 other countries, with a record 40 % audience share in Portugal (Diogo Morgado who plays Jesus is a television star there).

Stories are the organizing principle of television as a medium and these stories seem to represent a purposeful grasp at meaning f or all of us in the global audience.

First in the United States, but now more and more in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere, television is being used essentially for one purpose only: to deliver an audience to an advertiser (or to a government).

Hymns continue to be popular, as is shown by the large audience in Britain for the television programme Songs of Praise.

David Clark and Paul Virts, «Religious Television Audience: A New Development in Measuring Audience Size,» paper presented at The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Savannah, 1985.

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.

Gingerich's idea of responding to Sagan in a series of his own was unfortunately never funded, but God's Universe contains much of what he would have told a television audience.

At least some of her audience appreciated that aspect of her music; I, for one, will forever remember her Christmas television specials in particular.

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.

J. L. Dennis, «An Analysis of the Audience of Religious Radio and Television Programs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area,» Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan,

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.»

(44) In commenting on these correlations, Buddenbaurn noted that the religious television audience reports quite different needs from those of the general television audience, Television viewing as a whole has been found to be most useful in satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of lonelinesIn commenting on these correlations, Buddenbaurn noted that the religious television audience reports quite different needs from those of the general television audience, Television viewing as a whole has been found to be most useful in satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of ltelevision audience reports quite different needs from those of the general television audience, Television viewing as a whole has been found to be most useful in satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of ltelevision audience, Television viewing as a whole has been found to be most useful in satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of lTelevision viewing as a whole has been found to be most useful in satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of lonelinesin satisfying the needs to be entertained, to kill time, to relax and release tension, and to avoid feelings of loneliness.

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.

The objectives of the religious television program need to be spoiled out first in terms of what audience it hopes to target.

In 1977, it appears that that segment of the total television audience to a large extent was at saturation point.

These programs, he suggests are irrelevant to the mass audience of television because they fail to understand and adapt to the true nature of television as it functions in American society.

Recent trends in the syndication and audience demographics of paid - time programming suggest that the evangelical and fundamentalist strategy in relation to television has also failed.

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.