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Metro Fairfield County Ratings Updated 08/27/25

What area is "Metro Fairfield County"? Few FM stations cover the entire county well. The southwestern corner is within the range of the stations from NYC. Bridgeport also gets stations from New Haven, but the NYC FMs are weak. Long Island's FMs come across the water with good signals in areas. Danbury is completely outside the range of NYC's FM stations but has its own stations plus New Haven and Hartford. Unless this survey is only covering a portion of the county, there are a lot of stations with very small shares which aren't shown in this book.

On the AM side, WICC 600 plus the class A stations out of NYC serve the entire county.
 
In 2020, the Bridgeport market (not highlighted in the inset map on the left, but it was made up of the two "BR Split" areas) was consolidated with the Stamford market to create the larger Metro Fairfield market.
Bridgeport was Market #126, Stamford was #151... Fairfield Co. is now #73
Previous (left) vs. Current (right)
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CentralFL said:
What area is "Metro Fairfield County"? Few FM stations cover the entire county well. The southwestern corner is within the range of the stations from NYC. Bridgeport also gets stations from New Haven, but the NYC FMs are weak. Long Island's FMs come across the water with good signals in areas. Danbury is completely outside the range of NYC's FM stations but has its own stations plus New Haven and Hartford. Unless this survey is only covering a portion of the county, there are a lot of stations with very small shares which aren't shown in this book.

On the AM side, WICC 600 plus the class A stations out of NYC serve the entire county.
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I doubt Hartford FMs are clearing Fairfield country clearly.
 
Yes. I was saying that Danbury gets the Hartford stations, which are absent further south in the county. To my mind, only WEBE and WEZN have good signals throughout that market. Perhaps there is another FM which also does? WALK from Long Island also is good pretty much everywhere, but they don't sell advertisements for Connecticut.
 
CentralFL said:
Yes. I was saying that Danbury gets the Hartford stations, which are absent further south in the county. To my mind, only WEBE and WEZN have good signals throughout that market. Perhaps there is another FM which also does? WALK from Long Island also is good pretty much everywhere, but they don't sell advertisements for Connecticut.
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WRKI (which is not included in this ratings market, apparently).
 
CentralFL said:
Yes. I was saying that Danbury gets the Hartford stations, which are absent further south in the county. To my mind, only WEBE and WEZN have good signals throughout that market. Perhaps there is another FM which also does? WALK from Long Island also is good pretty much everywhere, but they don't sell advertisements for Connecticut.
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The combination of WICC and WFOX covers that whole market pretty well.
 
WRKI doesn’t do very well along the Sound Shore, and the Hartford signals aren’t the greatest in Danbury…pretty hit or miss until you get around Newtown.
 


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