Talk:List of Gannett Company assets

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El Paso Times is no longer part of Gannett; it was sold (date unknown), listed as in partnership on the Media NewsGroup listings page Media Newsgroup Properties, and listed as a newspaper holding on the Media Newsgroup wikipedia page Media NewsGroup. Also, David Crowder, listed as city hall reporter, left the Times as of 1st quarter 2008. He is now a reporter for El Paso Media Group's El Paso Media Group Newspaper Tree Newspapertree, a locally owned and operated news web site. --chacal la chaise (talk) 20:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

There is a dispute on this page where it says market for Gannett owned stations. Market means what area the station is in and serves and has NOTHING to do with COL or (City of License). Although there are markets where 1,2,3 cities are noted such as Dallas-Fort Worth the COL of a particular station is NOT its market. For instance WLVI-TV is in the "Boston" TV market. But is COL is Cambridge and is listed so on the WLVI page. Its not called the "Cambridge-Boston" market but just the "Boston" market. The issue here is rather COL should be included in the market list. Keep in mind its MARKET we are talking about and not COL. By including COL it can confuse as to say that the particular COL is part of market ID when it is not. That provides inaccurate information. You can see the markets by theirofficial names on the link below. The next 2 also show on how stations are shown when "market" is asked for. Thank you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_North_America_by_media_market

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MyNetworkTV_affiliates -- you will notice WPWR-TV has a COL of Gary IN and WWOR-TV has a COL of Secaucus, New Jersey but as the issue is "market" its Chicago market and New York market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ABC_television_affiliates_%28table%29 --ABC Tv station WJXX #49 has a COL of Orange Park but again in this article the issue is market not COL so the COL is left off on this list and the market is Jacksonville FL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CBS_television_affiliates_%28table%29 ---CBS station WOIO-TV has a COL of Shaker Heights but is in the Cleveland - Akron #17 market. Since market is the topic COL is left off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raycom_Media ---You will also notice on ownership it lists which market the station is in.

To conclude I do not feel COL is relevant and is confusing when talking about "market". If we put COL along with market in the page of affiliates and ownership it is not as accurate as it should be. Nielsen Ratings makes clear what "markets" are.