And even if it only maintains an audience of 50% of the 1.2bn users, it can still serve a strong purpose as part of that broadening portfolio.
Her ABC talk show, "The View," which she created in 1997, has received twenty-nine DaytimEmmymy Awards and maintains an audience of three million viewers.
For all its adventurousness, the group has had trouble maintaining an audience, at least when it plays in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.
He believes his natural austerity allows him to stay far enough outside the process to maintain an audience member's perspective, and to remain alert to the intrusion of anything inorganic to the play's world.
One could argue that maintaining an audience's attention with a drumbeat of minor moments, punctuated at just the right times with major events, makes the big difference in all entertainment.
The actors' union and the studios may be at each other's throats, but once the contract is settled, the real fight begins: maintaining an audience, no matter what screen it appears on.
It takes five years for one of these fictions, whose beginnings and ends are as obscure as the first questions of the universe, to capture and maintain an audience.
With the advancement of digital learning technologies such as TEDx, the bar has been raised in terms of how to maintain an audience's attention while effectively communicating your ideas across.
Dan Rather speaks of the disappearance of network "confidence in our ability to get and maintain an audience large enough for survival, much less to thrive"; Peter Jennings talks of "our own uncertainty about who we are and our commitment in this new marketplace".
In plays in which the drama is internal -- as when disease is the protagonist -- it is the characters who must maintain an audience's interest, as in successful medical dramas like "Wit," "As Is" and "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" Although there is biographical data about Ford and his family (and the surgeon) strewn through "Handshake," one never really gets to know any of them.
