Sentence examples for ratings empty from inspiring English sources

Then again, it's unclear whether Fox would be able to sign up advertisers for such a show; a Fox advertising sales executive recently called Mr. Beck's ratings "empty calories" because groups had lobbied advertisers to boycott Mr. Beck's daily show after he called President Obama a racist in mid-2009, making the show "basically something that we could not monetize".

And neither poor TV ratings nor empty seats could take away the feeling that somehow, some way, everything was going to be all right.

He also said that the defendants' threats of collection proceedings and adverse effects on users' credit ratings were empty, as the defendants had no way to personally identify computer users.

MUCH has been made of the National Basketball Association's post-Michael Jordan blues, epitomized by financially troubled franchises, declining television ratings, a rash of empty seats at regular season games and overly drawn-out playoff series.

NASCAR is battling empty seats, lower TV ratings and the big-time loss of Detroit and other major sponsor money; but 50-year old multi-race winner Mark Martin is the old-guy hero of the season.

Television hates the sight of the empty seats -- psychologically bad for ratings.

The confusing symbols it uses for its ratings — the filled-in, partially filled-in or empty circles, in red or black — violate plenty of graphic design principles.

The Rams returned, somewhat ceremoniously, to LA before the 2016 season, and were greeted as a bad team should be: with hordes of empty seats and minuscule local television ratings.

Beck's show is known in the TV sales world as "empty calories," meaning he draws great ratings but is toxic for ad sales.

Indeed, Nascar has been discussing making changes to the Chase format to artificially pump some drama into a sport that has had large swaths of empty stands at races along with the ratings fall.

The crackdown on protesters dented Erdogan's approval ratings; more threatening to his tenure, it spooked investors, emptied hotels and sent the Turkish stock market into a tailspin.