{"id":13319,"date":"2015-08-15T15:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2015-08-15T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T19:21:57","slug":"radio-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13319","title":{"rendered":"Radio Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you take the population of a state and spread it equally among the active radio stations in a state, what does it show?<\/p>\n<p>First the disclaimers<br \/>\n&#8211; the population is from 2000, the numbers I have readily available<br \/>\n&#8211; radio waves don&#8217;t stop at state borders &#8211; people in New Jersey can hear New York City, but not the other way around<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n+--------------+-------+------------+-----------+\r\n| StationCount | State | Population | PerCapita |\r\n+--------------+-------+------------+-----------+\r\n|          140 | NJ    | 8,414,350  | 60,103    |\r\n|          133 | MD    | 5,296,486  | 39,823    |\r\n|          915 | CA    | 33,871,648 | 37,018    |\r\n|          582 | NY    | 18,976,457 | 32,606    |\r\n|          109 | CT    | 3,405,565  | 31,244    |\r\n|          217 | MA    | 6,349,097  | 29,259    |\r\n|           36 | RI    | 1,048,319  | 29,120    |\r\n|           20 | DC    | 572,059    | 28,603    |\r\n|          616 | FL    | 15,982,378 | 25,945    |\r\n|          493 | IL    | 12,419,293 | 25,191    |\r\n|          475 | OH    | 11,353,140 | 23,901    |\r\n|          515 | PA    | 12,281,054 | 23,847    |\r\n|           34 | DE    | 783,600    | 23,047    |\r\n|          950 | TX    | 20,851,820 | 21,949    |\r\n|          461 | MI    | 9,938,444  | 21,558    |\r\n|          241 | AZ    | 5,130,632  | 21,289    |\r\n|          351 | VA    | 7,078,515  | 20,167    |\r\n|          435 | GA    | 8,186,453  | 18,819    |\r\n|          319 | WA    | 5,894,121  | 18,477    |\r\n|          121 | UT    | 2,233,169  | 18,456    |\r\n|          437 | NC    | 8,049,313  | 18,419    |\r\n|          110 | NV    | 1,998,257  | 18,166    |\r\n|          366 | IN    | 6,080,485  | 16,613    |\r\n|          275 | LA    | 4,468,976  | 16,251    |\r\n|          247 | SC    | 4,012,012  | 16,243    |\r\n|          384 | MO    | 5,595,211  | 14,571    |\r\n|          392 | TN    | 5,689,283  | 14,513    |\r\n|          375 | WI    | 5,363,675  | 14,303    |\r\n|          307 | CO    | 4,301,261  | 14,011    |\r\n|          318 | AL    | 4,447,100  | 13,985    |\r\n|          253 | OK    | 3,450,654  | 13,639    |\r\n|          374 | MN    | 4,919,479  | 13,154    |\r\n|           98 | HI    | 1,211,537  | 12,363    |\r\n|          100 | NH    | 1,235,786  | 12,358    |\r\n|          231 | MS    | 2,844,658  | 12,315    |\r\n|          331 | KY    | 4,041,769  | 12,211    |\r\n|          254 | KS    | 2,688,418  | 10,584    |\r\n|          330 | OR    | 3,421,399  | 10,368    |\r\n|          131 | ME    | 1,274,923  | 9,732     |\r\n|          301 | IA    | 2,926,324  | 9,722     |\r\n|          283 | AR    | 2,673,400  | 9,447     |\r\n|          192 | WV    | 1,808,344  | 9,418     |\r\n|          150 | ID    | 1,293,953  | 8,626     |\r\n|          201 | NE    | 1,711,263  | 8,514     |\r\n|          220 | NM    | 1,819,046  | 8,268     |\r\n|           91 | VT    | 608,827    | 6,690     |\r\n|          135 | SD    | 754,844    | 5,591     |\r\n|          125 | ND    | 642,200    | 5,138     |\r\n|          221 | MT    | 902,195    | 4,082     |\r\n|          155 | AK    | 626,932    | 4,045     |\r\n|          157 | WY    | 493,782    | 3,145     |\r\n|            5 | AS    | 0          | 0         |\r\n|           19 | VI    | NULL       | NULL      |\r\n|           14 | GU    | NULL       | NULL      |\r\n|            6 | MP    | NULL       | NULL      |\r\n|          100 | PR    | NULL       | NULL      |\r\n+--------------+-------+------------+-----------+\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take the population of a state and spread it equally among the active radio stations in a state, what does it show? 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