telespectator

plural telespectators

1. One who witnesses an event on television.

   The telespectator has no material object to watch or possess, only the experience of watching fleeting images on the screen.

   2009, Paul Connerton, How Modernity Forgets, page 83

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   All these things that affect the psychology of the telespectator, must also affect the dramaturgical techniques of those who create the telecast.

   1952, Films in Review, volume 3, page 505

   The "telespectator" never receives the kinds of sutured transmissino conventionalized by Hollywood film, as well as expected of telecommunications by Freud.

   1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere