Sentences with phrase «television viewers in»

How else to explain the 18 million television viewers in the U.K. — 29 million in the U.S. — who tuned in on Saturday morning to watch an actress and a former army captain get married?

The protracted battle between CART and Champ Car cost both series sponsors, spectators and television viewers in the following years, but a sellout this year at Indy has the feeling of a renaissance for IndyCar racing.

I got to share my kale salad and crispy kale chips with the Fox 8 News television viewers in Greensboro, NC.

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The Super Bowl on Sunday, with 112.2 million viewers, set a record as the most - watched program in U.S. television history.

He worked on interactive television in Scandinavia and the U.K. before the Internet existed, developing technology to give viewers the option to vote and buy things on their television monitors.

Given the enduring popularity of television medical dramas, other researchers have wondered about the accuracy of depictions of medical care and illness in these programs, and what key messages viewers might take away from watching them.

«One Strange Rock,» a National Geographic television series that debuted on March 26th, sets out to show viewers what makes the Earth unique among other planets in the solar system, and the conditions it took to foster life on the planet.

While we do not have control over the scripts of any television show, we exclude programs that we consider to be offensive, or in bad taste, or which could stimulate anti-social behavior through viewer imitation.

TeleXitos is the Telemundo Station Group's national multicast network that serves as a destination for viewers who want to watch their favorite action and adventure television series and movies from the 1970s to 2000s in Spanish and without subtitles.

Any product that is chosen for a television segment of the show must be available for viewers to purchase, either on a website or in a national store chain.

The exorbitant cost of television advertising can cost companies hundreds - 0of - thousands of dollars, making it prohibitively expensive to place your product in front of millions of viewers.

In the universe of «The Opposition,» viewers are watching the television portion, though the world is much more expansive.

When U.K. television recently aired footage of three foodies tasting meat formed from approximately 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue in a Petri dish, viewers were witnessing a breakthrough that raises both hope and concern.

«We believe the U.S. television industry is entering a period of prolonged structural decline, caused by a migration of viewers from ad - supported platforms to non-ad-supported or less - ad - supported platforms,» according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger in a March 9 statement.

Golf has dealt with declining television ratings in recent years, but a healthy, well - performing Woods has already led to a substantial spike in viewers.

Television coverage of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration reached an average total of 30.6 million viewers across the 12 broadcast and cable news networks that provided live updates throughout the day, about 18 % down from the viewers who tuned in when Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009.

The citizens of the host country expunge all cynicism and find their eyes filling with tears; television viewers around the globe are inspired by a new generation of fresh - faced athletes, many of them competing in events which would draw almost zero interest in any other context; the networks and sponsors breathe a great sigh of relief knowing that their massive investment was sound; and the folks in Lausanne smile a secret smile.

But in television, compelling characters are especially crucial, as they're tasked with holding the interest of viewers over the course of a season or an entire series.

«I would say that the typical viewer will dip in and out of the experience while watching on television.

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.

That's one of the worst time slots in television — yet Shark Tank averaged about 8.4 million viewers per episode last season, putting it in 55th place.

The show, now in its sixth season, continues to get top Friday night television ratings, pulling in between 7 million and 8 million viewers a week.

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.

In addition to The Jinx, several other true crime series and television programs centered on the issue of criminal justice have gripped viewers over the past year, including current series focused on O.J. Simpson and infamous Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff that are airing on FX and ABC, respectively.

And scoring extra points with viewers, the apps aren't requiring that people log in through a television provider to access the hard - hitting action.

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.

Snap says the show got 5.2 million viewers per episode in its latest season, although it should be noted that a «viewer» on Snapchat isn't the same as a viewer on television.

Smith often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale old formats like panels of aging white men debating politics.

Whether or not the critical acclaim already experienced by O.J.: Made in America means that television viewers can expect more long - form, multi-part films from ESPN remains to be seen, as Schell said the longer format is difficult to sustain without the right subject matter.

The debut drew 5,000 viewers, a drop in the bucket compared with television, but it was a lot cheaper, and it reached its biggest fans, said Dan Kelleher, co-chief creative officer at kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners, or kbs, which created the campaign.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman (3PM / ET) also placed in the top four programs, delivering 229,000 total viewers for the quarter, continuing her reign as the highest - rated female business anchor on television.

Lou Dobbs» eponymous program Lou Dobbs Tonight continues to be the number one rated news program on business television in both total viewers (368,000) and the demo (44,000), marking nine consecutive quarters atop the 7PM / ET timeslot rankings.

Moreover, in order to stimulate these idle viewers, programs have made sex and violence the staples of the television diet - along with instant replays to show us what we miss in our semi-stupor and Howard Cosell to titillate us with locker - room gossip.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

Gerbner explained to the study committee the role of television in creating a «mean and violent world» in the minds of many viewers — particularly heavy viewers:

And in both cases television is sufficiently removed from the real life of viewers that the experience can be exciting and at the same time safe.

This means that television is itself becoming a kind of religion, shaping the faith and values of many people in the nation, and providing an alternate worldview to the old reality, and to the old religious view based on that reality, for millions of viewers.

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role in our lives of television «s mythic world — the world of «Gilligan «s Island» and hundreds of other «places» and «people» who exist, to some degree at least, in the minds of America «s viewers.

Generally, as news anchors and the news itself, more and more become the products of popular culture and consumers» desire to see the handsome and the beautiful, and the dramatic and alluring, television viewers will suffer more and more from inaccurate reporting, inane and nearly meaningless stories, outright stupidity, and a complete decline in journalistic integrity (of which this story on CNN is a part).

II: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality, 1967 - 79, Philadelphia: Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.

But there are ways in which we can expect the television industry itself to take into consideration this new process and to use it to benefit, rather than befuddle, us as viewers.

When heavy viewers were asked whether watching religious television had changed their involvement in the local church, 7 % said it had, and 3 % said it had decreased their involvement.

To get around this problem with religious TV viewers, the Annenberg researchers went to several previous months of Arbitron television viewers «diaries, looked up the actual programs watched by day, hour and channel in the TV Guide, and thereby identified «confirmed viewing» — in other words, what people really watched.

It was as much a success with critics as it was with viewers — if you're too young to remember, note that this used to be the most popular show in America — and it leveraged that success to break new ground in television.

That television is effective in creating or extending common belief patterns among viewers is demonstrated by research.

(2) Buddenbaum, in 1979, found that regular viewers of religious television programs are twice as likely to be female as male.

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While the evangelical and fundamentalist broadcasters have been successful in raising money, in building large organizations and support services, in utilizing new technologies, and in providing sophisticated religious programming for evangelical viewers, they have not demonstrated any greater capacity or ability to get their message across to the larger television population.

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.