audience share

American  

noun

1. the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.

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Etymology

Origin of audience share

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Zillow’s overarching strategy is to narrow the gap between its audience share in home search and the share of transactions it monetizes.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

This measure also marks the first time that broadcast TV’s audience share sank below 20%, a stat that begs for a pulse check.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2025

Channel 4 says its coverage of the Paralympics reached 20 million viewers across linear and streaming - up 23% on the Tokyo 2020 Games, helping the channel to its biggest audience share in 12 years.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

The limit was set in 2004, years before streaming video started eating away at traditional TV’s audience share.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

It is the intense concreteness of Fechner, his fertility of detail, which fills me with an admiration which I should like to make this audience share.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William