Boston No Longer In Top Ten

[Daniel Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
To: "Mark Laurence" <marklaurence@mac.com>; "bRI" 
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Boston No Longer In Top Ten

> 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.

A market is not just geography.  Distant suburbs where people commute into a 
city are properly part of that city's market.  Providence is not a Boston 
suburb.  It is a separate urban area.