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[QUOTE="kyleslamb, post: 15998, member: 895"]
Fair enough. But no... been in the media for eight years. Went to a broadcasting school devoted to the rules and procedures of broadcasting, cable, radio, ratings, etc. Have friends that work for cable operators and television stations alike. Yes, I don't have direct experience working for a Time Warner Cable, Comcast, etc., but I have enough of background to know the basic structure. And I'm positive things are dealt with in terms of markets. As I said, it's certainly possible that an MSO and content provider could negotiate different rates for subscribers in two different states within a market, but content for tiers is based on each unique market, as defined by Nielsen -- used by the FCC. Listen to any cable operator when talking about channels, and they'll tell you that they vary "by market."

When Nielsen gathers survey and demographic data, the MSOs do focus groups and market research based on the demographics and habits of people in a given market. Regional networks, then, are often negotiated based on certain market demographics. Those demographics are not concentrated on only portions of the region.

New Brunswick is in the New York City market. That's its home market. When a regional network is negotiated with any cable operators that service that region, it will deal with both the Northern portion of New Jersey and metro New York City as a whole. I encourage anyone to test my theory with channel lineup lookups on cable websites and they'll see this as a truism.
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