Being curious of the population within our broadcast radius, I found this site which shows we have about 2.63 million people living within a 100 mile radius of midtown. http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/zipra...bmit+Query

That amounts to about 7% of the total population of current Big 12 states.

That should be enough fans for the Tigers and the Grizz to have decent attendance.

UConn has all of NYC as fans tho apparently.

(04-22-2016 09:53 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  Being curious of the population within our broadcast radius, I found this site which shows we have about 2.63 million people living within a 100 mile radius of midtown. http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/zipra...bmit+Query

That amounts to about 7% of the total population of current Big 12 states.

how many within 100 miles of downtown Nashvegas (titans support)

(04-22-2016 10:31 AM)80sTiger Wrote:  UConn has all of NYC as fans tho apparently.

New York City bleeds UConn football.

(04-22-2016 11:38 AM)Oman Wrote:  

(04-22-2016 09:53 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  Being curious of the population within our broadcast radius, I found this site which shows we have about 2.63 million people living within a 100 mile radius of midtown. http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/zipra...bmit+Query

That amounts to about 7% of the total population of current Big 12 states.

how many within 100 miles of downtown Nashvegas (titans support)

Is Vanderbilt vying for Big XII attention? Is Austin Peay or Tennessee State moving up to FBS?

(04-22-2016 10:31 AM)80sTiger Wrote:  UConn has all of NYC as fans tho apparently.

But none watch UConn football.

(04-22-2016 11:38 AM)Oman Wrote:  

(04-22-2016 09:53 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  Being curious of the population within our broadcast radius, I found this site which shows we have about 2.63 million people living within a 100 mile radius of midtown. http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/zipra...bmit+Query

That amounts to about 7% of the total population of current Big 12 states.

how many within 100 miles of downtown Nashvegas (titans support)

I can't get it to work on the mobile site, but it's somewhere north of 3 million.

(04-22-2016 09:53 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  Being curious of the population within our broadcast radius, I found this site which shows we have about 2.63 million people living within a 100 mile radius of midtown. http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/zipra...bmit+Query

That amounts to about 7% of the total population of current Big 12 states.

100 miles radius?

Sounds almost what UCF's former AD was promoting last year as Tampa TV Market (#11) and Orlando's TV Market (#19) combined would be the 3rd largest TV Market in the Country:

http://www.tvb.org/media/file/2015-2016-dma-ranks.pdf

Memphis TV market is #50.

Well, I don't know what happened, but not more than 2 years ago it #47.

(04-23-2016 09:23 AM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  Well, I don't know what happened, but not more than 2 years ago it #47.

Stagnant growth while cities that below had higher growth rates.

Memphis TV market appears smaller than it should because Jonesboro, Jackson, and Greenwood/Greenville have their own markets and could easily be included with Memphis because they get Memphis TV.

(04-22-2016 11:38 AM)Oman Wrote:  

(04-22-2016 09:53 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  Being curious of the population within our broadcast radius, I found this site which shows we have about 2.63 million people living within a 100 mile radius of midtown. http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/zipra...bmit+Query

That amounts to about 7% of the total population of current Big 12 states.

how many within 100 miles of downtown Nashvegas (titans support)

lol, is MTSU joining the Big XII?

(04-23-2016 10:05 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(04-23-2016 09:23 AM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  Well, I don't know what happened, but not more than 2 years ago it #47.

Stagnant growth while cities that below had higher growth rates.

Memphis TV market appears smaller than it should because Jonesboro, Jackson, and Greenwood/Greenville have their own markets and could easily be included with Memphis because they get Memphis TV.

What happens for places like Jonesboro, which is a hybrid? It has a local tv news station, it gets a station from Little Rock, and it gets a station from Memphis.

(04-23-2016 12:14 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(04-23-2016 10:05 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(04-23-2016 09:23 AM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  Well, I don't know what happened, but not more than 2 years ago it #47.

Stagnant growth while cities that below had higher growth rates.

Memphis TV market appears smaller than it should because Jonesboro, Jackson, and Greenwood/Greenville have their own markets and could easily be included with Memphis because they get Memphis TV.

What happens for places like Jonesboro, which is a hybrid? It has a local tv news station, it gets a station from Little Rock, and it gets a station from Memphis.

If you have your own TV station then you are your own market. And no other market can claim your market even if you can receive their signal.

Memphis gets none of Jackson, Jonesboro, or Greenwood/Greenville. Nashville gets all of Clarksville/Hopkinsville.

(04-23-2016 09:23 AM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  Well, I don't know what happened, but not more than 2 years ago it #47.

Some tv market areas were expanded (small ones merged with others), hence why Orlando, even though booming/growing, dropped from #18 to #19.

I recently posted an article about Norweigian Air's CEO's mentioning Memphis as a possible place for him to fly Transatlantic from. I'm sure the prospect of Viking Cruises is an impetus for such talk. But if you take a map and draw a circle of about a three and a half hr drive to MEM and the population is over 6 million. You got Little Rock, the Jacksons, Huntsville, Birmingham, and yes Nashville. I looked at that distance as a way to judge if one could get nonstop service across the pond for fares between 600 to 1,000 would folks drive to Memphis and forgo connecting and paying much higher fares via the Big 3. I certainly believe the case for a once weekly flight to London Gatwick could be supported along with growing cruising traffic and just european tourists in general. Norweigian specializes in less than daily. The argument I used for the service being in Memphis and not Nashville is because the north, south, and east are much closer to a hub city than Memphis. Birmingham is not much farther than it is from Atlanta and a complete I 22 and Lamar takes it straight to the airport.

Point is Memphis is strategici n lots of ways in spite of it's detractors.

(04-24-2016 12:05 PM)WaywardMemphian Wrote:  I recently posted an article about Norweigian Air's CEO's mentioning Memphis as a possible place for him to fly Transatlantic from. I'm sure the prospect of Viking Cruises is an impetus for such talk. But if you take a map and draw a circle of about a three and a half hr drive to MEM and the population is over 6 million. You got Little Rock, the Jacksons, Huntsville, Birmingham, and yes Nashville. I looked at that distance as a way to judge if one could get nonstop service across the pond for fares between 600 to 1,000 would folks drive to Memphis and forgo connecting and paying much higher fares via the Big 3. I certainly believe the case for a once weekly flight to London Gatwick could be supported along with growing cruising traffic and just european tourists in general. Norweigian specializes in less than daily. The argument I used for the service being in Memphis and not Nashville is because the north, south, and east are much closer to a hub city than Memphis. Birmingham is not much farther than it is from Atlanta and a complete I 22 and Lamar takes it straight to the airport.

Point is Memphis is strategici n lots of ways in spite of it's detractors.

Several factors are the reason why there are not any regular international traffic in/out of Memphis (besides the charter flights to 2 destinations for Vacations Express):

No other major city airport in the USA has seen as big of a percentage drop in traffic than Memphis...where passenger traffic has dropped from 11.8 Million in 2000 to just 3.6 Million in 2015.

The #1 destination now for passenger traffic is Atlanta...where there are at least 8 international carriers that provide non-stop service to London.

MEM use to be a Top 30 US Airport in passenger traffic...now is ranked #63 in the number of passenger boardings, just ahead of Providence, RI.
http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_cap...ements.pdf

Also, the challenge of setting up a once a week operation is the added costs in regards to contracted/rented space/employees.

Hopefully Memphis can become a major or even a minor airline hub in the future...as the space/gates are already there...as that would greatly increase the non-stop options that locals (and maybe more importantly, tourists) could use...as many of those former non-stop routes don't exist today.

Just an FYI on population within a 100 mile radius for cities in AAC. Cincinnati has about 4,797, 361. If you add Columbus and Indianapolis which are just about 100 miles or so from Cincy the total grows to 10,319,336 population. I am sure most of the AAC schools are in very populated areas with in 100 miles. So having TV set to watch our games is not the problem. Need to grow our fan base out side of the local MSA.

(04-25-2016 06:27 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(04-24-2016 12:05 PM)WaywardMemphian Wrote:  I recently posted an article about Norweigian Air's CEO's mentioning Memphis as a possible place for him to fly Transatlantic from. I'm sure the prospect of Viking Cruises is an impetus for such talk. But if you take a map and draw a circle of about a three and a half hr drive to MEM and the population is over 6 million. You got Little Rock, the Jacksons, Huntsville, Birmingham, and yes Nashville. I looked at that distance as a way to judge if one could get nonstop service across the pond for fares between 600 to 1,000 would folks drive to Memphis and forgo connecting and paying much higher fares via the Big 3. I certainly believe the case for a once weekly flight to London Gatwick could be supported along with growing cruising traffic and just european tourists in general. Norweigian specializes in less than daily. The argument I used for the service being in Memphis and not Nashville is because the north, south, and east are much closer to a hub city than Memphis. Birmingham is not much farther than it is from Atlanta and a complete I 22 and Lamar takes it straight to the airport.

Point is Memphis is strategici n lots of ways in spite of it's detractors.

Several factors are the reason why there are not any regular international traffic in/out of Memphis (besides the charter flights to 2 destinations for Vacations Express):

No other major city airport in the USA has seen as big of a percentage drop in traffic than Memphis...where passenger traffic has dropped from 11.8 Million in 2000 to just 3.6 Million in 2015.

The #1 destination now for passenger traffic is Atlanta...where there are at least 8 international carriers that provide non-stop service to London.

MEM use to be a Top 30 US Airport in passenger traffic...now is ranked #63 in the number of passenger boardings, just ahead of Providence, RI.
http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_cap...ements.pdf

Also, the challenge of setting up a once a week operation is the added costs in regards to contracted/rented space/employees.

Hopefully Memphis can become a major or even a minor airline hub in the future...as the space/gates are already there...as that would greatly increase the non-stop options that locals (and maybe more importantly, tourists) could use...as many of those former non-stop routes don't exist today.

Your stats are a misunderstanding of Memphis air traffic. Memphis has never been a major destination hub. Instead Memphis was a top passenger traffic airport due to it being a top transfer hub for Delta Airlines, then Southern Airways (eventually NW Airlines before its merger with DL), a minor hub for UA & American - and that because of it's central US location. With the improved efficiencies of a spoke & wheel system, airlines moved away from a diverse system to the hub system since the early 2000s. Memphis slowly declined as a transfer hub first with the reduced UA & American flights, then more rapidly with the NW/DL merger results with DL's transfer flights being re-routed to ATL & CIN. At the same time Memphis destination traffic has marginally increased since 2000. Point is you can't just consider passenger traffic to determine rankings of destinations. Your Atlanta statement is most telling of your misunderstanding. Atlanta is actually not a top "destination" location, it is instead the #1 transfer/deplaning airport for passenger traffic which causes Atlanta to get it's ranking. A point you'll probably like is the fact that Orlando is actually a much higher ranked "destination" airport than several ranked above Orlando because Orlando is the destination of much of its traffic instead of being a top transfer hub. But all it takes to dramatically change a city's rankings is for a carrier to move a hub location to that city. And Memphis is fully capable of handling dramatically increased traffic & it is currently the busiest airport in the world relative to take offs/landings due to FedEX business.

What a difference from several years ago when the debate was "Does Memphis own it's city?" Now, it's "How far is the reach?" The powers that be in any decision making capacity know what they are getting with the University of Memphis. Best I've been able to glean (from published numbers on isolated games here and there) is that considerable viewership extends into AR, MS and W/M TN. Is it the result of winning seasons, increased brand awareness, the nature of the market (rabid college fans) or some combination of factors? Is there enough demand to pick up a conference network in all three states? IDK the answers to these questions, but numbers suggest that UofM viewership/brand has expanded beyond city borders.