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Comcast and NBC in Detroit

Discussion pertaining to Detroit, Ann Arbor, Port Huron, and SW Ontario
innate-in-you
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Re: Comcast and NBC in Detroit

Post by innate-in-you » Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:23 am

NS8401 wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:44 am
CircleWXYZ wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:05 am
Fox 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.
Detroit 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.
While Detroit had been the #5 market at its peak, it was the #9 market in 1994.



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Re: Comcast and NBC in Detroit

Post by Deleted User 8570 » Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:01 am

innate-in-you wrote:
Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:23 am
NS8401 wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:44 am
CircleWXYZ wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:05 am
Fox 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.
Detroit 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.
While Detroit had been the #5 market at its peak, it was the #9 market in 1994.
If I’m not mistaken it was still #5 around 1990... it certainly was when 7 was sold in 1986...



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Re: Comcast and NBC in Detroit

Post by innate-in-you » Sun Apr 14, 2019 3:41 pm

It was mentioned in the 7/1994 VHF-UHF Digest as being Market #9.



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Re: Comcast and NBC in Detroit

Post by FET-500 » Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:35 pm

CircleWXYZ wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:07 pm
fuzzpower wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:57 am
Detroit proper is still declining. Just drive around the actual city and see for yourself. The growth and money are in some of the suburbs.

NBC/Comcast would be foolish to buy a station here unless it is for a deep discount.

It actually is improving, if you look at neighborhoods like Corktown.
What ads will be directed at that demographic? There's really not much there. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Corkt ... d-83.06701



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