media market

Television coverage area

A media market is a geographic region where residents share access to the same television and radio stations.

Markets are ranked by population size, with New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago being the largest in the United States.

Advertisers and political campaigns use media markets to target audiences: The campaign bought ads in swing-state media markets.

Also called a designated market area or DMA.

broadcasting

television

Broadcast viewing device

affiliate · ratings · viewership · audience share · Nielsen · sweeps · airtime · prime time · local news · anchor

advertising

ad spend

Funds for paid promotion

frequency · spot · placement · inventory · upfront · remnant · programmatic · demographics · time slot · sponsorship

geography

DMA

Top music degree

national · regional · urban · suburban · cross-border

Categories
Opposites
scale/scope

media marketlocal station

Nearby public transit stop

niche audience

commercial vs. non-commercial media systems

media marketstate media

Government-run news organizations

community media

geographic boundedness

media marketglobal media

Communication reaching all nations

streaming platform · digital distribution

Family

media, market, medium, medial, median, mediate, mediation, mediator, multimedia

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
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