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We're No. 6! We're No. 6!

By Ed Bark
Dallas-Fort Worth is up a notch and now ranks as the country's sixth largest TV market, says Nielsen Media Research.

The latest stats move D/FW ahead of Boston, which slipped two rungs from fifth to seventh. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose is the new No. 5 market, but likely not for long. D/FW now is less than 5,000 homes behind SF and company. Last year at this time, the margin was 19,500 homes.

So just how big is D/FW? Nielsen says there are 2,378,660 TV homes here, compared to 7,366,950 for top dog New York City. Los Angeles (5,611,110), Chicago (3,455,020), Philadelphia (2,941,450) and SF (2,383,570) round out the current top 5.

Katrina-ravaged New Orleans took the biggest hit among top 50 markets. In fact it's no longer in the top 50, dropping from 43rd to 54th place with a decline from 672,150 to 566,960 TV homes. That puts Austin ahead of New Orleans for the first time ever. It's 52nd with 602,340 homes.

Dinkiest of all the 210 markets is Glendive, Montana, with 3,980 TV homes. It's not exactly a growth center, dropping from 5,020 last year. That gives Glendive a whopping .004 percent of the country's grand total of 111,348,110 TV homes.