Boston No Longer In Top Ten

[Scott Fybush]

>How big is the Dallas or Atlanta metro when measured in miles from
>the city center?  Let's allow Boston's metro to include the same
>mileage and see how big it gets.

The fastest growing parts of the Dallas metro are the northern 
suburbs - Collin County and beyond - which are considerably more 
distant from downtown Dallas than Providence or Manchester are from 
downtown Boston. The Dallas market will eventually stretch almost to 
the Oklahoma line. Atlanta's a little more geographically constrained 
- you hit other markets like Athens and Rome as you move out - but 
Mark's point is a good one.

>Also, only two companies have the kind of penetration into nearly all
>major markets that you mention.  After Clear Channel and CBS Radio,
>there are different competitors in different markets.  There's no
>Entercom or Greater Media in New York or Los Angeles.  There's no
>Emmis or ABC Radio in the Boston market ratings.

Nor, for that matter, does Boston have anything like the huge ratings 
influence now exerted by Spanish-language formats in most of the 
other top-10 markets. It's not just LA and Dallas, either - SBS' WSKQ 
is a consistent major player in NYC, frequently at or near the top of 
the ratings. No SBS or Univision Radio or Entravision in Boston - and 
barely any Radio One presence, either.

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