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These links go to individual lists of television stations by the media market in which they are located. United States [ edit ] Map of the 210 media markets in the United States , including U.S. territories
Until the sale closed on August 4, WGNT was the smallest station by market size to be owned by CBS following the Four Points Media Group deal. The sale of WGNT also made WJZ-TV (channel 13) in Baltimore the smallest station by market size that is still owned by CBS (WGNT, along with WTKR, is now owned by The E. W. Scripps Company).
A Television Market Area (TMA) is a group of counties in the United States covered by a specific group of television stations. The term is used by the U.S. Government's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate broadcast, cable, and satellite transmissions, according to the Code of Federal Regulations , at 47 CFR ยง 76.51 and FCC.gov.
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...
The pages below contain lists of television stations in the U.S. by call sign . Historically, stations to the east of the Mississippi River were given call signs beginning with the letter W, stations to the west K. However, there are exceptions. See the article on North American call signs for more information.
The following is the list of most watched television broadcasts in the United States by average viewership, according to Nielsen. Of the 30 most-watched telecasts, 27 are Super Bowls. The Apollo 11 moon landing is generally considered to have been the most watched event in American television history, having garnered an estimated viewership of ...
CBS. ABC. Fox. The CW. PBS. The five major commercial broadcast television networks, along with PBS. In the United States, for most of the history of broadcasting, there were only three or four major commercial national terrestrial networks. From 1946 to 1956, these were ABC, CBS, NBC and DuMont (though the Paramount Television Network had some ...
The Chicago metropolitan area (the Chicago market) commands the third-largest media market in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles and the largest inland market. [1] All of the major U.S. television networks have subsidiaries in Chicago. WGN-TV, which is owned by the Tribune Media Company, is carried (with some programming ...