The phrase "a broad viewership" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large and diverse audience that consumes a particular media or content.
Example: "The documentary gained a broad viewership, appealing to people of all ages and backgrounds."
Alternatives: "a wide audience" or "a large audience".
Does the need to reach a broad viewership ever hamper your creativity?
If the four teams in Sunday's National Football League conference championship games are strangers to a broad viewership, blame it on the networks' lack of clairvoyance.
Although the series featured more than its share of alien stories, monsters and twisted government conspiracies, the relationship between the agents registered a humanity and humor that scored with a broad viewership, particularly women.
Though the strategy worked for O'Reilly's nightly audience, we'll now get to see what happens when O'Reilly sits with Trump for a broader viewership.
"Exploring new formats in prime time allows us to find new ways to attract a broader viewership at night while still appealing to CNBC's highly affluent, educated and influential audience," Jim Ackerman, CNBC's senior vice president for prime-time alternative programming, said in a news release.
On Sunday, Oct. 14, I'll be catching the season three premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead, the show that has managed to attract a demographically broad viewership and garner critical praise while being about -- of course -- zombies.
You wonder if the concept will kick in, if the fantasy of the National Hockey League attracting a broad TV viewership will ever come true.
All those NBC promotions urging viewers to watch marquee athletes like Maurice Greene, Marion Jones, Lenny Krayzelburg, Ian Thorpe or Stacy Dragila would be useless if the come-ons urged: "Join us in Sydney at 4 in the morning!" You simply can't build a broad TV viewership out of Joe Benigno's overnight listeners on WFAN.
(The video has since attracted broad viewership on YouTube).
Their choices were informed by the broad viewership ratings of Nielsen and other survey data, which typically led to buying relatively expensive ads during evening-news and prime-time viewing hours.
For Tuttle, encouraging broad viewership at the public screenings comes with careful programming.
