Mr. Croasdale adds that the show's audience "skews toward the older demographic" but that at 8:30 P.M. Friday, against ABC's teen-ager-oriented lineup, it does as well as or even better than could be expected.

"The audience for debates skews old demographically," he said.

Executives had assumed the audience would skew heavily toward younger people.

At 11:47 30th Nov 2011, Nimrod wrote: You said in your original justification for this change to the BBC website "The primacy of links to these products has attracted an audience skewed more towards 'male' and 'ABC1' demographics than BBC Online as a whole."

"Our audience skews female and our median-age listener is a 41-year-old woman," said Jim Ryan, WLTW's station manager.

The audience of the site skews younger with the 18-24 year old and 25-34 year old segments being most significant.

CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade cinemagoers gave the film was "A" on an A+ to F scale, and that audiences skewed slightly male and older.

The primacy of links to these products has attracted an audience skewed more towards 'male' and 'ABC1' demographics than BBC Online as a whole.

The audience for political gab skews old, male and conservative; MSNBC and CNN have tried to emulate Fox's right-wing bully boys not because of marching orders from Karl Rove but because of Fox's commercial success.