TV Markets Merger

[e-dawg]

Which TV markets have merge into a larger market or combine markets?

 

[dhett]

I believe that Flagstaff AZ was briefly its own TV market (around #205) after KNAZ-TV went on the air, but has now been merged into the Phoenix market (KNAZ is now a satellite station of KPNX Phoenix).

 

[KML0224]

Wasn't Hagerstown, MD basically absorbed into the Washington DC market? I know they still have their own NBC affiliate, WHAG-TV channel 25.

 

[Charles1]

Tuscaloosa and Anniston, AL were absorbed into the Birmingham DMA in the late '90's after WCFT-33 and WJSU-40 became the combined ABC affiliate for Birmingham and central Alabama.

 

[easttxtv]

IIRR, Shreveport and Texarkana were once considered separate, but have since been one for many years.

Dallas-Fort Worth I believe has been one all the time (even though the owner of the Fort Worth NBC station (then WBAP, now KXAS) didn't care whether Dallas could see his station or not (old petty city rivalry....) till NBC threatened to pull his affiliation if he didn't put his signal on a better tower/antenna so the one signal could be seen by the whole market), as opposed to its' radio history, where for many years, Dallas and Fort Worth were considered separate.

 

[kilamanjero]

Tuscaloosa and Anniston, AL were absorbed into the Birmingham DMA in the late '90's after WCFT-33 and WJSU-40 became the combined ABC affiliate for Birmingham and central Alabama.

Don't even get me started on how "dumb-down" the Birmingham TV market has become since this whole "small-town-oriented" mentality has taken effect on news reporting from the major network affiliates. I'm originally from Birmingham and feel like that particular merger could be have executed a little better by "ABC 33/40" WBMA/WCFT/WJSU...

It is also one of the main reasons why my relocation from Birmingham to Atlanta nearly 6 years ago was actually a good thing.

 

[Markxxx]

Birmingham should have been what Alanta is today and Charlotte wants to be what Atlanta is today... ;D