a figure based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
Examples of 'audience rating' in a sentence
audience rating
It could raise intellectual standards by ignoring audience ratings and, importantly, mitigate a nasty poll tax and win the next election.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He devised a better system and, in 1947, released the first audience ratings for radio shows, extendingthese to television in 1950.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
However, it was later announced that the show was to be dropped after the audience ratings failed to impress.
The Sun (2017)
I would be a former contestant because the show is pulled after low audience ratings.