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(07-29-2015, 01:22 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don't think Baltimore or Indy are smaller markets.  According to Nielson they are 24 and 25 respectively and Cincy is 34.

NFL markets aren't just the city the team resides in. That's why you can't just go off the Nielson ratings. 

http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/2chr5f/nfl_teams_by_media_market_size_2014_edition/
http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/wt1sr/list_of_nfl_teams_by_media_market_size/   (this one lists the individual markets)

Baltimore only has 3 TV markets (Baltimore, Harrisburg/York PA, and Salisbury MD). In terms of just number of markets, that's the 2nd lowest behind the Jet's 2. However, the Jets two has over 21,000,000 viewers compared to the Ravens 5,300,000 or so. The Bengals stretch 10 markets (largest being Cincy, Dayton, and Lexington... I think) for 9,141,000 viewers (over 11 million if you add in Columbus). 

So, yes, Baltimore is a larger city than Cincy, but the Baltimore sports market is much smaller because of the proximity of other larger sports cities around it (Philly, Pitt, DC). Baltimore only truly has half of the state of MD and a small bit of South-Central PA.