TV audience
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- noun
- /tiː viː ˈɔːdiəns/
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audiencia de televisión
- Imagine being the all-time winner in the grand playoffs at the end of the season, taking the trophy in front of the biggest TV audience in the history of competition.
- national TV audience
- big TV audience
- TV audience of 2 million
Examples
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Netflix's TV audience is growing just as the company joins YouTube and Hulu in offering original, web-first programming whose quality rivals that of broadcast sources.
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The movie is a sad reminder that TV audiences are becoming more and more desensitized.
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The TV audience, however, is changing.
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47% of PBS viewers have a high school education, or less, which is one percent better than the commercial TV audience.
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Today's TV audiences catch their favorite shows on screens of every size and schedules of their own making.
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Blacks comprise 11% of the public television audience, and blacks comprise 11% of the commercial TV audience.
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The first thing the moderator does in a modern debate is tell the TV audience that the live audience has been instructed not to clap or cheer for one candidate or the other.
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The show attracted a TV audience of millions eager to see the latest episode.
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After the debate, the candidates spoke to the TV audience about their plans for the future.
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The documentary was well-received, capturing the attention of a global TV audience.
Synonyms
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People who get information or entertainment, for example from a show
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The number of people who watch a TV program or channel
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A group of people who watch a particular TV program
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the group of people who watch a particular television program' is directly derived from combining 'TV' (the medium) with 'audience' (a group of consumers/viewers). This compositional pattern (medium + audience) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
TV audience combines TV and audience. The word audience once meant people who gathered to listen or watch a show, and when shows came into people's homes on TV, the same idea — a 'group who watch' — moved to the screen, so TV audience now means the 'group who watch' a television program.