[Diddle E. Squat]

I love it, a New Yorker who thinks he's an expert but gets it all wrong.

TV markets:

Combine Miami and West Palm-Ft.Pierce and they are still smaller than Dallas (which doesn't include Sherman-Denison):

http://www.nielsenmedia.com/DMAs.html

Population:

DFW was larger than those 2 combined in 2004, according to the US Census:

http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states-metropolitan-area

and growing much faster, so each year the gap widens:

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2237

http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t3/tab03.txt

[Sonny M]

I love it, a New Yorker who thinks he's an expert but gets it all wrong.

Never said I was an expert, but research is good, and I didn't make my numbers up either, here's some links.

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US12&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-T1-R&-ds_name=PEP_2005_EST&-_lang=en&-format=ST-2S&-_sse=on%7D

That was just for Florida, and then I broke it down to the counties, the miami metro area is just 3 counties, while the dallas metro area is 12 counties, but the populatons are still similiar.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/Estimates%20pages_final.html

At this point, instead of me defining metro areas, I just go with the usual standard defs used.

http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t29/tab01a.pdf

You can also note the differance in area, density with minimal differance in population and factor in growth.

[TexanByBirth]

I love it, a New Yorker who thinks he's an expert but gets it all wrong.

That's is why I said he wasn't worth arguing with.