While Detroit had been the #5 market at its peak, it was the #9 market in 1994.NS8401 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:44 amDetroit is #14. FOX and CBS both invested when we were #5... the real decline from the top 10 started a little while after that. By 2006 we were #11. The city is making a comeback... the number of households in the nielsens is stagnant at best and in reality slowly declining while the markets above us grow by leaps and bounds. That’s how Tampa, Seattle, Phoenix and Houston got above us. For example WXYZ is now Scripps 3rd biggest station by DMA size and we trail Seattle and Phoenix by better than 100,000 households. Minneapolis and Miami are very close to making us 16th. Detroit is a backwater.CircleWXYZ wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:05 amFox and CBS invested in Detroit at a time when Detroit was on a decline.
Detroit is not only making a comeback, it’s still a top 12 market.
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If I’m not mistaken it was still #5 around 1990... it certainly was when 7 was sold in 1986...innate-in-you wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:23 amWhile Detroit had been the #5 market at its peak, it was the #9 market in 1994.NS8401 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:44 amDetroit is #14. FOX and CBS both invested when we were #5... the real decline from the top 10 started a little while after that. By 2006 we were #11. The city is making a comeback... the number of households in the nielsens is stagnant at best and in reality slowly declining while the markets above us grow by leaps and bounds. That’s how Tampa, Seattle, Phoenix and Houston got above us. For example WXYZ is now Scripps 3rd biggest station by DMA size and we trail Seattle and Phoenix by better than 100,000 households. Minneapolis and Miami are very close to making us 16th. Detroit is a backwater.CircleWXYZ wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:05 amFox and CBS invested in Detroit at a time when Detroit was on a decline.
Detroit is not only making a comeback, it’s still a top 12 market.
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It was mentioned in the 7/1994 VHF-UHF Digest as being Market #9.
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What ads will be directed at that demographic? There's really not much there. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corkt ... d-83.06701CircleWXYZ wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:07 pm
It actually is improving, if you look at neighborhoods like Corktown.