From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstudio audienceˌstudio ˈaudience noun [countable] AMTa group of people who watch and are sometimes involved in a radio or television programme while it is being made
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studio audience• Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience, all of whom shared two characteristics.• Nobody was using a studio audience and that was an accident.• It simply involves Morton, a small studio audience and the cameras.• It's controlled from a panel above the studio audience.• It was five or ten minutes before they and the studio audience could control themselves.• The show was certainly not as great as the studio audience apparently felt it was.• He did so, and he looked like the questioner in the studio audience rather than the answerer.• The studio audience at the Sally Jessy Raphael show roared approval. 