Sentence examples for meager audience from inspiring English sources

CBS led the night over all despite a meager audience for its live 10 p.m. Grammy nominations concert special (5.1 million).

NBC's "Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008," a comedic tribute to chief executives past and present, attracted a meager audience of just 4.9 million viewers on Sunday.

The debate on Tuesday night between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush was watched by at least 46.6 million people, a fairly meager audience for a presidential debate, data from Nielsen Media Research shows.

The race, with months of fighting to go, will play out before the same meager audience it's always had.

The newcomer MyNetworkTV also began its two telenovelas, "Desire" and "Fashion House," which both attracted meager audiences.

Hyped as a steamy potboiler, the movie had its meager audiences howling instead.

On a night in which Fox's Super Bowl coverage won a resounding victory in the ratings, ABC, CBS and NBC struggled to attract even meager audiences during prime time.

Opposite ABC's coverage of the Academy Awards on Sunday night rival networks drew mostly meager audiences — even as the Oscars, according to Nielsen's estimates, drew 37.6 million viewers, down from the 41.7 million who watched a year ago.

When she swung through the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina the weekend before filing her papers, Ms. Moseley Braun drew meager audiences -- just one old college friend made it through a snowstorm to the event in Des Moines.

In April, he brought both shows to San Francisco's Oasis, where (at least on Monday night) he played to meager audiences.

On a visit to New York (postponed from September because of the terrorist attacks) to meet with Dorothea Endicott, the collegium's executive director, and finalize plans for next season, he took issue with this reporter's suggestion of last year that not even the most ardent authenticist would advocate meager period-size audiences for early music.