As for Hartfords merits as a market, Nielsen ranks the combined Hartford and New Haven market 30th in the U.S., with nearly 1 million viewing households. Thats smaller than the 1.15 million TV homes in Raleigh, but roughly the same size as the NHLs market in Nashville (1.01 million) and bigger than its markets in Columbus, Ohio (930,000) and Buffalo (632,000). Its also bigger than NBA TV markets in Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Memphis and New Orleans and NFL markets in Buffalo and Jacksonville. Oh, and when it comes to towns trying to land an NHL or NBA franchise of their own, Hartford draws a bigger television audience than either Kansas City or Las Vegas. While the New York Rangers minor league team, the Hartford Wolf pack, jumped into the void when the Whalers left in the Civic Center, even the Wolf pack’s efforts to retire the numbers of former Whalers including Dineen and its recently ended stint as the Connecticut Whale arent enough to heal Hartfords wounds. So long as the Whalers goal horn blows in Raleigh and the NHL sidesteps Hartford, the hurt cant be undone.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:28:56 +0000
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