viewership

noun

view·​er·​ship ˈvyü-ər-ˌship 

: a television audience especially with respect to size or makeup

Examples of viewership in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The event attracted fans from all 50 states and 64 different countries, while breaking viewership records. —Mark Lasota, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025

Per Paramount, that is up 41% versus the Season 1 finale, with the average viewership for Season 2 up 46% compared to Season 1. —Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025

Within three days of multi-platform viewing, the audience had ballooned to 6.69M viewers, pacing well ahead of the season’s average viewership (6.13M), per ABC. —Katie Campione, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2025

Last year’s final round of the Masters averaged 9.59 million viewers, down 20 percent from 2023 (a big caveat is that the 2023 final round aired on Easter Sunday and benefited from large out-of-home viewership). —Richard Deitsch, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for viewership

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