Audience
The concert is popular throughout Europe, and more recently around the world. The demand for tickets is so high that people have to preregister one year in advance in order to participate in the drawing of tickets for the following year. Some seats are preregistered by some Austrian families and passed down from generation to generation.
The event is broadcast —from 1989 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2009 and in 2011 under the direction of Brian Large— by the Eurovision network which includes most major networks around Europe (including BBC Two in the United Kingdom). It is also broadcast on PBS in the United States (beginning in 1985), TVE in Spain, NOS in the Netherlands, BNT in Bulgaria, RTS in Serbia, HRT in Croatia, BHT in Bosnia and Herzegovina, RTSH in Albania, RTK in Kosovo, RTCG in Montenegro, TVR in Romania, CCTV in China, NHK in Japan, KBS in South Korea and SBS in Australia. Since 2006, the concert has been broadcast to viewers in several African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe). In Latin America the concert is broadcast in Chile by La Red, and also in Ecuador and Bolivia. Austria's ORF Ö1 channel also broadcast the concert on the radio.
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Famous quotes containing the word audience:
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark—that is critical genius.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“But when we play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sits before us!
How many prompters! what a chorus!”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.”
—Fanny Brice (1891–1951)