Boston is a Top 10 market again

[Scott Fybush]

Kevin Vahey wrote:
> Here is the new list
>  
> http://www.arbitron.com/home/mm001050.asp
>  
> One market that is vanishing is Buffalo which at the current rate maybe 
> smaller than Rochester in a short time.
>  
> Buffalo is 52   Rochester 54

Take those numbers with at least a small grain of salt, only because the 
counties between Buffalo and Rochester have a tendency to flop back and 
forth between markets from year to year.

Like Detroit, Buffalo has really become two markets - a surprisingly 
affluent and vital ring of suburbs surrounding a decaying central city. 
  At that, there are more sparks of life in the city of Buffalo right 
now than there are within Detroit city limits.

There's another thing about Buffalo that the numbers don't show: the 
market feels bigger than Rochester in large part because of the mammoth 
Golden Horseshoe of southern Ontario, from Niagara up to Toronto, that's 
just across the river. Especially as the Canadian dollar hangs in there 
above par, there's a steady stream of commerce across the border. That's 
one big reason why they have an NFL team and an NHL team (and almost 
landed an NL baseball team in the eighties), and we have...er...the 
National Lacrosse League champions.

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