Room for more LPFM stations in urban areas

The FCC estimates that roughly more than 1,300 new noncommercial LPFMs could sign on in the top 100 radio markets. Counting sites in those and smaller markets, the number could reach 2,000.

Mkt rank Radio markets defined by Arbitron Locations for added LPFMs
1 New York 0
2 Los Angeles 0
3 Chicago 0
4 San Francisco 0
5 Dallas-Ft. Worth 2
6 Houston-Galveston 3
7 Atlanta 4
8 Philadelphia 0
9 Washington, DC 0
10 Boston 0
11 Detroit 0
12 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood 0
13 Seattle-Tacoma 0
14 Puerto Rico 0
15 Phoenix 6
16 Minneapolis-St. Paul 13
17 San Diego 6
18 Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island), NY 2
19 Denver-Boulder 3
20 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 8
21 St. Louis 11
22 Baltimore 0
23 Portland, OR 2
24 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC 16
25 Pittsburgh, PA 3
26 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 2
27 Sacramento 16
28 Cincinnati 7
29 Cleveland 1
30 Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo 0
31 San Antonio 17
32 Kansas City 8
33 Las Vegas 3
34 San Jose 3
35 Orlando 11
36 Columbus, OH 5
37 Austin 9
38 Milwaukee-Racine 7
39 Indianapolis 4
40 Middlesex-Somerset-Union, NJ 1
41 Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, RI 2
42 Raleigh-Durham 11
43 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News 5
44 Nashville 10
45 Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC 18
46 Jacksonville 8
47 Oklahoma City 20
48 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL 3
49 Memphis 15
50 Hartford-New Britain-Middletown 8
51 Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 2
52 New Orleans 6
53 Buffalo-Niagara Falls 5
54 Louisville 11
55 Richmond 33
56 Rochester, NY 14
57 Birmingham 12
58 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC 18
59 McAllen-Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 29
60 Tucson 12
61 Dayton 4
62 Ft. Myers-Naples-Marco Island, FL 7
63 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 18
64 Honolulu 0
65 Tulsa 11
66 Fresno 6
67 Grand Rapids 7
68 Albuquerque 5
69 Allentown-Bethlehem, PA 2
70 Knoxville 30
71 Wilkes Barre-Scranton, PA 6
72 Omaha, NE-Council Bluffs, IA 23
73 Sarasota-Bradenton, FL 12
74 El Paso 42
75 Bakersfield, CA 24
76 Akron 0
77 Wilmington, DE 1
78 Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA 9
79 Baton Rouge 32
80 Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA 7
81 Charleston, SC 9
82 Gainesville-Ocala 30
83 Stockton, CA 21
84 Little Rock 5
85 Syracuse 10
86 Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville, NC 56
87 Springfield, MA 10
88 Columbia, SC 44
89 Toledo 9
90 Daytona Beach 13
91 Des Moines 25
92 Spokane 6
93 Colorado Springs 7
94 Mobile 13
95 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL 13
96 Wichita 6
97 Ft. Pierce-Stuart-Vero Beach, FL 20
98 Madison 49
99 Melbourne-Titusville-Cocoa, FL 16
100 Lexington, KY-Fayette 17
101 Boise 3
102 Visalia-Tulare-Hanford, CA 9
103 Johnson City, TN-Kingsport, TN-Bristol, TN/VA 39
104 York, PA 3
105 Lafayette, LA 17
106 Huntsville 48
107 Chattanooga 27
108 Ft. Wayne 14
109 Augusta, GA 41
110 Worcester, MA 5
111 Lancaster, PA 2
112 Roanoke-Lynchburg 43
113 Modesto, CA 35
114 Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester, NH 29
115 Ft. Collins-Greeley, CO 9
116 Morristown, NJ 1
117 Victor Valley, CA 18
118 New Haven 3
119 Oxnard-Ventura 8
120 Santa Rosa 4
121 Reno 1
122 Jackson, MS 20
123 Bridgeport 1
124 Pensacola 25
125 Lansing-East Lansing, MI 21
126 Youngstown-Warren 3
127 Fayetteville, NC 34
128 Fayetteville, AR 38
129 Flint, MI 12
130 Canton 6
131 Reading, PA 1
132 Palm Springs 32
133 Shreveport 32
134 Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI 32
135 Appleton-Oshkosh, WI 23
136 Springfield, MO 38
137 Corpus Christi 11
138 Newburgh-Middletown, NY (Mid Hudson Valley) 2
139 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX 20
140 Burlington, VT-Plattsburgh, NY 15
141 Salisbury-Ocean City, MD 18
142 Atlantic City-Cape May, NJ 5
143 Trenton 0
144 Tyler-Longview, TX 38
145 Eugene-Springfield 17
146 Flagstaff-Prescott, AZ 51
147 Stamford-Norwalk, CT 0
148 Quad Cities (Davenport, IA-Rock Island, IL- Moline, IL) 53
149 Fredericksburg, VA 36
150 Peoria, IL 14
159 Asheville, NC 21
171 San Luis Obispo, CA 23
203 Danbury, CT 0
214 Santa Barbara, CA 5
273 Sheboygan, WI 14

 

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