Media in Atlanta

As of 2011, metro Atlanta was the ninth-largest media market in the United States. Due to apparent over-estimates of population growth in the 2000s by the U.S. Census Bureau, this rank is a decrease from two years prior as a result of the 2010 U.S. Census.

In 2009, metro Atlanta was the eighth- or seventh-largest market, with over 2.3 million TV households and 4.3 million people aged 12+. According to the 2016 Nielsen Media Research, it ranked ninth in television broadcasting, behind the [Boston, Ma. metropolitan area]. According to 2016 Arbitron, it ranked eighth in radio broadcasting, now just ahead of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and not far behind the greater Washington, D.C.metropolitan area.

Cox Enterprises, a privately held company controlled by siblings Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, has substantial media holdings in and beyond Atlanta. Its Cox Communications division is the nation's third largest cable television service provider; the company also publishes over a dozen daily newspapers in the United States, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. WSB AM, the flagship station of Cox Radio, was the first broadcast station in the South.