audience

Today in class we are looking at what an audience is and this importance of viewers when in the media, without an audience there would be no media without the audience the show or movie would not make any profit.
what is an audience:
 An audience is an individual or collective group of people who read or consume a media text.
The people who watch or listen to a television or radio programme.

Over time audiences have become more fragmented they have started to divide into smaller groups due to the variety of media outlets, there are thousand of TV channels now which mean people have more variation, which mean people don't watch the same channels.

types of audience:
 Mass audience- large group of people watching the same channels, a large group of people.
 Niche audience- much smaller audience, a collective audience. TV channels that may not be as popular.
 Demographics audiences ae also defined according to there characteristics such as:

•  age
• gender
• nationality
• social groups