live viewing
Watching as broadcast
Live viewing is watching an event as it happens, in real time rather than recorded.
The term applies both to being physically present live viewing of the eclipse and to watching a broadcast simultaneously with its occurrence The live viewing audience for the Super Bowl exceeded 100 million.
Contrast with watching a recording later.
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- on the airCurrently being broadcast
- streamingReal-time digital delivery
- real-timeOccurring without processing delay
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
stadium · concert · event · red carpet · spectators · television · prime time · simulcast · premiere · watch party · game day · arena · big screen · sold out crowd · crowded · applause · excitement · sports
- TV habitsbinge watching, channel surfing, season premieres, season finales, reruns
- viewinggazing, staring, peering, observing, glancing
- digital habitsscrolling, screen time, binge-watching, doom scrolling, doomscrolling
- TV ratingsratings, Nielsen, shares, households, audience share
temporal immediacy
live viewingDVR playback
Watching previously recorded television
delayed broadcast · replay · rerun · VOD · binge-watching
live, viewing, lived, lives, living, lively, livelihood, alive, outlive