February's event drew an average audience of 40.3 million viewers, a million more than 2012's broadcast.
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The problem is that advertising agencies make their buys based on average audience, not cumulative audience.
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The Apprentice is the season's seventh-most-watched program in prime time, according to Nielsen, with an average audience of 19.4 million viewers.
The show's average audience is 943, 000 people, according to the Nielsen Co.
The network has always run a far second to TVB, but it recently managed to increase average audience share during prime time to 35%.
The average audience on the show's most recent nights was about 9.3 million, according to Nielsen, down 21% from the corresponding period of last season.
When that happens, the tyranny of average audience will be broken.
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This year is more of the same with a record average audience of 111 million for the Super Bowl between the Steelers and Packers.
An average audience of 12.7 million viewers watched the show, while Cole's Girls Aloud bandmates and footballer husband Ashley were among members of the studio audience.
Following her late-night interview, which was viewed by some 11 million viewers, more than double the show's average audience, she shot up to tie her opponent.
The latter, starring Kyra Sedgwick, is the No. 1 basic cable series of all time, with an average audience of 4.8 million for its combined three seasons.
Ratings on CSN Philadelphia were down 39% last year, but the Phils still commanded the third biggest average audience for games after the two New York franchises.
The BBC Ten O'Clock News is now the most popular late news bulletin every night of the week, says the corporation, with an average audience of 5m viewers.
Call The Midwife drew its smallest audience since launching earlier this year, and Doctor Who, with 7.6 million viewers, had an average audience of 1.3 million fewer than in Christmas 2011.
The show was criticised for failing to attract A-list names but nevertheless attracted an average audience of 9.16 million per show - second only to the previous year's average of 9.54 million.
It was well received in the United Kingdom and abroad, drawing an average audience of 40.7 million people in the US, topping the previous record of 39.8 million for the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Coronation Street was seen by an average audience of 8.6 million viewers, while Upstair Downstairs - which returned for a new series on BBC One straight after Call The Midwife - attracted 6.5 million people.
The Six Nations had record average audiences in Wales of 800, 000 across Wales' five matches and the average audience during the final periods of Wales' five matches were the highest ever for any Five or Six Nations campaign.
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Ratings were down for last year's finals with the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils despite having two teams from large markets after the first three rounds of the playoffs attracted the largest average audience since 1997.
While "Tonight" remains the king of the late talk hours, its average total audience between last September and early August shrank 5% from the year before, according to Nielsen data provided by NBC.
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Carefully orchestrated by party stewards, these so-called activists display a mental passivity that makes the average X Factor audience look like the participants in one of Plato's symposia.
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On average, an audience of 11.6 million regularly tuned in for CBS fare, only marginally larger than the tune-in for the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen.
Among a selection of 100 top brand pages on Facebook, those using paid media reach an audience that is on average 5.3 times larger than organic audience alone, and 5.4 times greater than the total audience of top brand pages using no paid media with a similarly sized fan base.
Since OWN's launch in January its average prime-time audience dropped 37% to 250, 000 viewers in July, according to Nielsen.
An economically populist program that raised taxes on the wealthy and increased government spending on infrastructure, housing, and health care would appear to have a large and receptive audience among average Russians.
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But it was the off-stage drama that prompted more than double the average State of the Union audience to tune in.
The program not only garnered an active audience of 11 million, but retained that audience's attention for more than 15 minutes on average--that's eons in Internet time.
When "Parade's End" aired in Britain last August, it drew an average of 2.5 million viewers, a dip from its premiere audience of 3.9 million.
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The audience watching the summer games has grown 45% since 2001, to an average of 676, 000 households, on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC for the 2003 summer games.
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