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Originally Posted by ATXboom
I see - 54 vs 40 miles. Driving between each Ciny seems more connected to Dayton with urbanity... middletown, etc are large enough that there are no commercial gaps. I would imagine Dayton inclusion in the media market is really the reason why there are Major League sports in cincy...
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You are correct that Cincinnati and Dayton are now, basically, seamless in urbanization versus Cleveland and Akron which has a large national park between the two. But Cincinnati and Dayton are
entirely separate markets, not dissimilar to San Antonio and Austin. Dayton certainly supports the Reds (as does Kentucky, half of Metro Indianapolis and Columbus) but it does
not support the Bengals like you'd think. A recent survey showed Metro Dayton is split three ways between the Browns, Steelers, and Bengals.
Akron does share a market with Cleveland, though I think Akron-Canton would/should be its own market.
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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Don’t forget Canton in the medium cities:
Dayton: 800k
Akron: 700k
Toledo: 600k
Youngstown: 500k
Canton: 400k
Nor the small cities, which fit the same pattern of population distribution:
Lima: 200k
Mansfield: 200k
Springfield: 100k
Sandusky: 100k
This whole dynamic is very similar to South Carolina (albeit on a smaller scale in SC), where the three major cities are roughly comparable (Greenville, Charleston, Columbia) and there’s a number of smaller places bringing up the rear (Myrtle Beach, Spartanburg, Hilton Head) and a third tier (Sumter, Florence, Anderson). That said, Charlotte de facto functions as South Carolina’s primate city and its three cities are roughly comparable to Asheville, Fayetteville, Greensboro, etc. with Raleigh playing the role of Beta for the entire region.
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I thought of the Carolinas in general as similar to Ohio with what you pointed out. Glad I'm not the only one.