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The top four most-viewed metered markets for ESPN’s game telecasts in 2013 were the same as in 2012 with Birmingham securing its first place finish for a 13th consecutive season. The Alabama city averaged a 9.2 rating, the highest ever for the market. Greenville was second with a 4.9 rating followed by Knoxville (4.4) and New Orleans (4.3).

No. 1 - Birmingham: 9.2 rating
No. 2 - Greenville: 4.9 rating
No. 3 - Knoxville: 4.4 rating
No. 4 - New Orleans: 4.3 rating
No. 5 - Nashville: 3.3 rating
...........Memphis: 3.3 rating
...........Columbus: 3.3 rating
...........Jacksonville: 3.3 rating
No. 9 - Louisville: 3.2 rating
...........Atlanta: 3.2 rating
No. 11 - Charlotte: 2.9 rating
No. 12 - Oklahoma City: 2.8 rating
No. 13 - Orlando: 2.7 rating
No. 14 - Tulsa: 2.6 rating
............Tampa-St. Petersburg: 2.6 rating
No. 16 - Austin: 2.5 rating
............West Palm Beach: 2.5 rating
No. 18 - Kansas City: 2.4 rating
............Norfolk: 2.4 rating
No. 20 - Dayton: 2.3 rating
No. 21 - Greensboro: 2.2 rating
No. 22 - Raleigh-Durham: 2.2 rating
............Richmond: 2.2 rating
No. 24 - Ft. Myers: 2.1 rating
No. 25 - Dallas-Ft. Worth: 2.0 rating

I would have thought Hartford had the biggest market for College Football.

Didn't notice Ames either.


Sorry LP4, I just had to get there before someone else did.

(12-16-2013 05:00 PM)XLance Wrote:  Didn't notice Ames either.


Sorry LP4, I just had to get there before someone else did.

Touche

Although the market to measure ISU is the Quad Cities

(12-16-2013 05:13 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote:  

(12-16-2013 05:00 PM)XLance Wrote:  Didn't notice Ames either.


Sorry LP4, I just had to get there before someone else did.

Touche

Although the market to measure ISU is the Quad Cities

You can't hold back Big Cyclone Nation...you can only hope to contain them

I'd love to see the next 25 if anyone can find them.

They mean Greenville, SC to be specific. I did my part to contribute to being #2 all year.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems to be measuring passion in a particular DMA by just taking the number of TVHHs tuned and then divide that by the total number of TVHHs in the DMA.

If I'm correct, then what exactly does this tell us?

If one were to take the information in this article, the actual number of TVHHs viewing and contributing to the overall rating of the programming would be as follows:

1. Atlanta - 74459
2. Birmingham - 66013
3. Dallas-FW - 51760
4. Tampa-St. Pete - 46971
5. Orlando - 39236
6. Nashville - 33492
7. Charlotte - 32956
8. Columbus - 30778
9. New Orleans - 27587
10. Raleigh - 24277
11. Knoxville - 22919
12. Kansas City - 22352
13. Memphis - 21873
14. Jacksonville - 21753
15. Louisville - 21570
16. Oklahoma City - 20126

The remaining 9 are contributing less than 20K TVHHs to the overall ratings.

Again, not sure what this is truly trying to measure. Obviously, if I'm a local advertiser in the areas from this article, then I would want to pay top dollar for a slot in those areas, but if I'm Coke, McDees, etc., I'm not swayed by these numbers.

I'm sure there is some meaning in this that I am missing.

Cheers,
Neil

Five of the Top 25 are in the I-85 corridor.

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Nashville is a big place for football - you've got the Knoxville State Hillbillies with unfortunate statewide support, the hometown Candy Dorks, and the MT Raiders with a large alumni base too.