"ratings ploy" meaning in All languages combined

See ratings ploy on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ratings ploys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ratings ploy (plural ratings ploys)
  1. A scheme or ploy made to attract a larger audience for usually mass media, like radio, television or digital streaming. Related terms: publicity stunt, clickbait
    Sense id: en-ratings_ploy-en-noun-fyjaVpiH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Among the several television critics whom I polled informally about the [Connie] Chung matter during the Television Critics Association semi-annual meeting in Pasadena, July 14–23, 1995, all but one blamed, in effect, both Chung and CBS: Chung for letting herself be used as a ratings ploy, the network for using her thusly.",
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