{"id":50981,"date":"2025-09-29T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:39:08","slug":"the-bay-area-tv-market-has-passed-boston-in-terms-of-the-number-of-tv-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50981\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bay Area TV market has passed Boston in terms of the number of TV homes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/03\/private-equitys-rising-role-reshapes-bay-area-pro-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/03\/private-equitys-rising-role-reshapes-bay-area-pro-sports\/\">Bay Area<\/a> (San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose) has passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/02\/boston-legacy-fc-names-jennifer-van-dijk-as-first-team-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/02\/boston-legacy-fc-names-jennifer-van-dijk-as-first-team-president\/\">Boston<\/a> to take the No. 9 spot among U.S. media markets, according to new data from Nielsen for the 2025-26 TV season. The rest of the top 10 remained unchanged from last year. The only other change within the top 25 was Nashville passing Indianapolis to come in at No. 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">For all of the U.S., there are 128 million TV homes, up 2% from 125.8 million last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Among notable markets moving up at least two spots in the rankings were Austin, West Palm Beach and Oklahoma City. In terms of percentage growth of TV homes among major league markets, New York City actually showed the biggest gain, up 5%. Houston, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Nashville and Austin each were up 4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Among minor league markets, Ft. Myers-Naples saw the biggest gain, up 5%. The biggest market without a major league team remains Hartford, which actually dropped one spot to No. 33. The smallest market among the big five leagues remains Buffalo, which fell one spot to No. 55 (Green Bay is No. 68, but for media purposes, Milwaukee is the home market for the Packers).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Top 50 U.S. media markets listing all the top markets and % change.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SM3GRNC5LZCAJANGOBMFSOQRFA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"1460\"\/>Top 50 U.S. media markets <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bay Area (San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose) has passed Boston to take the No. 9 spot among U.S. media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,220,111,139,44074,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-50981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nielsen","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}