With plummeting audience figures, they have been desperate to bring wayward viewers back into the fold.
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There are mixed fortunes in the latest radio audience figures, with no one story dominating the coverage.
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It starred Alan Davies and Lesley Sharp and was a hit with critics yet had mixed audience figures.
In Music Week, Mr Logan also rejected claims audience figures of 70, 000 a night must have been inflated.
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Just a couple of bad reviews and a few weeks of audience figures.
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Bebo hopes to tap even bigger audience figures -- through "KateModern" -- as a route to raising advertising revenues.
The 1970s were marked by a steady fall in audience figures from 199 million in 1970 to 102 million a decade later.
Plays featuring star performers such as Kevin Spacey's sell-out run in Richard III have been attributed to the boost in audience figures.
He complained the current method of measuring audience figures did not take into account alternatives to live viewing, such as video on demand.
Audience figures released in mid-May show that the numbers of people tuning in are growing and that many niche stations are starting to win significant numbers of listeners.
Despite the NBA's growth, it has some way to go before it can rival football's worldwide appeal given the last soccer World Cup final saw global television audience figures peak at 530.9 million.
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For the first time, digital stations have appeared in the radio industry's official audience research figures.
Of course he was playing to a largely sympathetic audience - leading business figures, many of whom have lobbied for aviation expansion.
According to Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (Rajar) figures, 49.8% of homes in the three counties area have a DAB digital radio, compared with 42% of UK homes.
At worst, he figures, DVRs will erode audience by just under 3% a year.
Much fine speechifying ensued as both sides tried to appeal to the American fund managers in the audience by whipping out competing sets of figures to demonstrate the shareholder value inherent in their proposals.
Rather than mere Nielsen ratings figures, the show's audience "became faces and people and lives, " added James.
Along the same motif of alleged underworld figures, HBO said its previous audience peak came for a 1989 Mike Tyson heavyweight bout.
Talking about education to a black audience in Austin in February, he jumbled his figures.
The figures are provided by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board and Television Research Partnership, and do not take into account repeat showings.
He said casting historical and political figures, who are known to the audience, is different from putting a face to a character from a novel.
The two-hour play asks the audience to know some American history and be aware of such figures as the politician Barbara Jordan, Richards' press aide Bill Cryer and the death row inmate Johnny Frank Garrett. (Rob Lowe's sex tape also gets a nod.) One of biggest rounds of applause is heard for Richards' defense of her concealed weapons veto, which has resonance now.
According to initial overnight figures, the action-packed show narrowly beat Trial and Retribution on ITV1, which drew an audience of 5.5m.
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