Sentence examples for audience defect from inspiring English sources

If you can't beat them join them - after seeing much of its casual gaming target audience defect to the iPad and other tablets, Nintendo is aiming to revitalise its fortunes with the Wii U. The machine - which launches in the US ahead of other markets - comes with a touchscreen tablet-like controller.

But an outsize slice of that loss occurs in the first 10 seconds, during which 19.4 percent of a video's audience defects.

Even though CBS and NBC tried a bait-and-switch technique the first two nights to try to lure viewers -- by folding the coverage inside its news magazines -- the audience defected in huge numbers as soon as convention coverage started.

Even before the recession, many commercial broadcasters were struggling as audiences defected to new digital channels and the Internet, and advertisers diverted spending to follow suit.

Partly, it's a swing of the Hollywood pendulum, a course correction in a television industry trying to hold onto younger male audiences defecting to cable, the Internet and video games.

In some ways the joke is on him: if he is too offbeat, the show's core audience could defect; if he leans too far in his predecessor's direction, he wouldn't leave Leno fans much incentive to stay tuned after Mr. Leno's show ends.

Its once huge working-class audience had defected to television, and the box-office was in crisis.

The series introduced José Contreras to the American baseball audience; Contreras defected from Cuba in 2002 to pitch in MLB.

MUNICH — Long after newspaper audiences started defecting to the Internet in other Western countries, Germany still looks like a bastion of print.

"They felt he had done his work with them, and their audience was already defecting.

But despite these defects, the audience was ecstatic throughout.