| They're a captive audience, with no real choices and no real means to fight for their right to party. |
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| Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon. |
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| Given a captive audience and a good percentage of business travellers it is easy for a hotel restaurant to get complacent, not so here. |
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| I don't even begrudge them the 30 minutes' worth of commercials they subjected their captive audience to. |
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| They do, however, represent a captive audience and, what is more, an audience in a highly receptive frame of mind. |
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| If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues. |
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| Again, it looks like the president is not appearing anywhere except with a captive audience in front of him. |
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| In a radio context, drive time simply refers to the late afternoon slot when homebound commuters are a captive audience. |
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| Children become a captive audience for ads showing expensive sneakers, junk food, and soda pop. |
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| Nevertheless, marketers are increasingly eager to tout their wares to Broadway's captive audience. |
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| The problem is places where there's a captive audience and no one is available to respond to requests, like the Laundromat or the airport. |
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| Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside. |
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| This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience. |
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| I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience. |
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| Cars combined with suburbs, superhighways, and longer commutes gave radio a vast captive audience. |
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| Bodyboarders are a captive audience for trunks and wetsuits, so there is no need to market to them. |
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| They have the benefit of being very targeted events with a captive audience, and can provide immediate feedback to the communicator. |
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| As traffic becomes increasingly jammed on clogged roads, the NRA has, literally, a captive audience ready to be seduced by the promise of free-flowing highways. |
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| Asian slapstick humor does not translate well, and most of the captive audience agreed, although they grudgingly watched it. |
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| There's a captive audience for TV shows starring people who horrify us with their behavior. |
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| New forms of media have emerged and a certain number of parameters, such as the notion of a captive audience, can no longer be counted upon. |
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| The return for them is advertising opportunities and access to a captive audience of young, impressionable, potential consumers. |
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| With regard to education about the injuries caused by operational stress, the military is a captive audience for us. |
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| Middle-aged men are also a captive audience due to their higher perceived risk. |
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| They formed a captive audience constrained to do what they were told by military discipline. |
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| There is a captive audience here, you do have a medical school here, and you do have a pharmacists' association here in this province. |
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| Of course it does require a captive audience since it really does not represent any farmers. |
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| They are a captive audience in that sense, and there is a power dynamic that goes with that. |
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| Tap into a captive audience with significant purchasing power, including decision-makers, self-employed professionals and collectors. |
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| It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships. |
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| So he's got a captive audience out there, and he's appealing to them. |
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| It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures. |
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| The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience. |
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| Spin some tall tale which would hold their captive audience enthralled. |
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| One of the elders told me that one of the advantages of being together like this was that the young people were almost a captive audience in this canoe. |
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| We take it out on you because we know you're a captive audience. |
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| As part of the Community Art Work Program, local artists can showcase their paintings for periods of three month before a very captive audience in the domestic departure hold-room. |
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| Commercial publishers have been able to command high prices because as near monopolies, they have a captive audience and are not subject to normal market forces. |
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| They will pay for the privilege of being able to broadcast in Canada so that the advertisers who choose to advertise in Canada to the Canadian audience will then know that they have that captive audience. |
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| Register racks at checkout stands offer manufacturers a captive audience for their products in the retailer's store. |
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| However, as the Minister of Veterans Affairs, knowing that I have a captive audience, and knowing that that captive audience is a group of keen and committed citizens, I have a challenge to issue to you. |
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| These prospects do not form a captive audience. |
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| They could charge a pretty penny as they had a captive audience. |
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