Subject: Re: Unfair TV Ratings - Lousy choices
From: staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers)
Date: 1991-08-30, 11:27
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Aug30.175631.1342@cs.umn.edu> rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
> >Are there any individual cable channels that are actually "larger" than 
> >any of the commercial networks?  (I mean this as a genuine question...)

Off the top of my head  I think one of the turner networks (probably TBS)
reaches ~50 million tv homes...but the lack of cable penetration will 
prevent any cable company from reaching the "Nielson Universe" of 92 million
tv homes.  The big 3 have an upper 98%-99% representation in the Nielson
universe.  Fox, I think, is in the upper 80 percentile (it might be 90% now).

--Ken