I said that once, but was corrected on the fact that SA is only like the 30th biggest TV market.
It's a "fake" big city like Jacksonville. Both of those cities were small but then they expanded by increasing the area of what they call the city. The said the surrounding counties should be included in the population counts to seem more legit.
SA
1,300,000 pop
1,900,00 in the metro area
412 sq mi land area
Philadelphia (a "real" big city)
1,400,000 pop
5,800,000 in the metro area (notice the much larger difference)
135 sq mi land area (about a quarter of the size of SA)
numbers from wiki
