listenership

/ˈlɪs.ən.ə.ʃɪp/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈlɪs.ən.ɚ.ʃɪp/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈli-sᵊn-ər-ˌship ˈlis-nər-/ (ame, mw)

listenership — 名詞

1. the number of people who listen to a particular radio programme, podcast, or typ

1.名詞B2
釋義

收聽人數

廣播或Podcast的聽眾人數

the number of people who listen to a particular radio programme, podcast, or type of music, or the general type of people they are

例句

The station manager was pleased to see the morning show's listenership grow by twelve percent.

電台經理看到晨間節目的收聽人數成長了十二個百分點，感到非常滿意。

collocation: grow + listenership + by [percentage]

Ji-Yeon checked the podcast's listenership figures every Monday before planning the week's episodes.

智妍每週一都會查看那個Podcast的收聽人數，然後再規劃當週的集數內容。

possessive: podcast's listenership

同義詞
  • audience

    broader term; can refer to viewers, readers, or attendees at any event, while 'listenership' is limited to audio content.

  • ratings

    refers specifically to the measured size of an audience expressed as numbers or percentages, often used in broadcasting industry reports.

  • listeners

    more concrete and personal; refers to actual people rather than the statistical or categorical aggregate.

文法句型

listenership + verb (often grow/decline/increase)

possessive + listenership

用法筆記

Frequently used with modifiers like 'growing,' 'declining,' or 'loyal' to describe trends or audience quality. Subject is often a station, programme, or podcast. You can say 'a listenership of 10,000', but *'two listenerships' is incorrect because 'listenership' is uncountable.

常見錯誤

❌The radio station has two different listenerships for its morning and evening shows.
✅The radio station has two different audiences for its morning and evening shows.
💡'Listenership' is uncountable and cannot take a plural form.
❌The listenership of the podcast is very young people.
✅The podcast's listenership is mostly young people.
💡Use a possessive structure or 'among' rather than 'of' to describe the composition of the audience.