bjoh249

Fayetteville expected to surpass 100k in new population counts due this spring. You are so wrong again. Ft. Smith should be a separate market.

That land is in the NWA metro. Way to not answer my other questions.

Where is your evidence that Fayetteville is about to lose the biggest of the 4 title? What 4 are you talking about? The big 4 in the NWA metro? Yeah a more inclusive generic term would be acceptable, but they aren’t using that either and they should. In case you didn’t know, the area between Fayetteville and Alma is very mountainous. There are few cities down that way, They had to build a tunnel to get the new interstate through.

Then Fayetteville’s name should come first in the market name then. It should be 29/40, not 40/29. When the TV market was started Ft. Smith was the larger metro and city. That is no longer the case. NWA metro population is over half a million, Ft. Smith’s is about 250,000. Fayetteville is the second largest city in the state. Springdale is not too far behind Ft. Smith either. In fact, the other two main NWA cities Rogers and Bentonville are not too far behind Ft. Smith in population. NWA is only behind Little Rock in everything now but the TV market. NWA has the only other professional baseball team in the state, the only other Children’s Hospital campus, the only other National Airport. Why do the call letters of Channel 5 still say KFSM, when it has no presence in Ft. Smith anymore? There’s really not much room for growth between Fayetteville and Alma anyway. The I-49 section between Alma and Ft. Smith isn’t supposed to be complete until the end of the decade.

I know this is an older post, but does anyone else think the FT Smith/NWA market should be split in two? The NWA metro has over half a million people now and Fayetteville has overtaken Ft. Smith as the second largest city in the state.