The main table includes all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! in 2020-21. Thus, they don't take into account:
Beginning in Week 3, Jeopardy! revived the practice of allowing contestants to be introduced as "originally from" a location other than their current residence, which had been ended in 2016. At least for now, this table will not separate out based on the style of introduction; wherever a player is billed as being from, that's what ends up in the table.
What's here:
(Credits: Zap2it & TitanTV for TV schedules for each market; John Coryat (yes, that's actually the last name) for ZIP code maps; ThinkTV for a listing of Canadian market sizes, enabling me to rank them properly with the U.S. markets; and Google Earth for county mapping information.)
The tables below reflect updated market size estimates for 2020–21; those figures are larger for all markets on account of Nielsen updating its methodology to account for broadband-only (BBO) homes.
Complete for all of Season 37, including the separate table for the Tournament of Champions. (Other than the ToC, there was no special play in this season.)
Rank | Market | Station | Players |
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2 | Los Angeles | KABC | 98 |
6 | San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose | KGO | 40 |
1 | New York | WABC | 33 |
9 | Washington (Hagerstown) | WJLA | 21 |
3 | Chicago | WLS | 19 |
4 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 17 |
10 | Boston (Manchester) | WBZ | 16 |
27 | San Diego | KNSD | 15 |
21 | Portland, OR | KATU | 12 |
11 | Phoenix (Prescott) | KTVK | 8 |
14 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | KARE | 8 |
15 | Detroit | WDIV | 8 |
20 | Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto | KXTV | 7 |
12 | Seattle-Tacoma | KOMO | 6 |
40 | Las Vegas | KLAS | 5 |
7 | Atlanta | WXIA | 4 |
19 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | WOIO | 4 |
32 | Hartford & New Haven | WTNH | 4 |
33 | Columbus, OH | WBNS | 4 |
46 | Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News | WVEC | 4 |
— | Toronto / Hamilton | — | 3 |
5 | Dallas-Fort Worth | KTXA | 3 |
8 | Houston | KTRK | 3 |
16 | Denver | KDVR | 3 |
24 | Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) | WTVD | 3 |
31 | San Antonio | KENS | 3 |
38 | Austin | KXAN | 3 |
78 | Portland-Auburn | WMTW | 3 |
87 | Syracuse | WSYT | 3 |
121 | Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo | KSBY | 3 |
17 | Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne | WFTV | 2 |
18 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale | WPLG | 2 |
28 | Baltimore | WBFF | 2 |
29 | Nashville | WZTV | 2 |
36 | Cincinnati | WXIX | 2 |
39 | West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce | WPBF | 2 |
49 | Louisville | WLKY | 2 |
51 | Memphis | WREG | 2 |
63 | Lexington | WKYT | 2 |
65 | Dayton | WDTN | 2 |
81 | Madison | WMTV | 2 |
93 | El Paso (Las Cruces) | KDBC | 2 |
115 | Lansing | WILX | 2 |
124 | Monterey-Salinas | KSBW | 2 |
125 | Bakersfield | KBAK | 2 |
13 | Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota) | WTSP | 1 |
23 | St. Louis | KSDK | 1 |
— | Puerto Rico | — | 1 |
25 | Indianapolis | WTHR | 1 |
26 | Pittsburgh | WPXI | 1 |
30 | Salt Lake City | KJZZ | 1 |
34 | Kansas City | WDAF | 1 |
35 | Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson | WLOS | 1 |
37 | Milwaukee | WDJT | 1 |
41 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | WWMT | 1 |
42 | Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York | WHP | 1 |
48 | Albuquerque-Santa Fe | KRQE | 1 |
50 | New Orleans | WVUE | 1 |
— | London / Waterloo / Wingham | — | 1 |
52 | Providence-New Bedford | WPRI | 1 |
53 | Buffalo | WIVB | 1 |
54 | Fort Myers-Naples | WBBH | 1 |
56 | Richmond-Petersburg | WRIC | 1 |
57 | Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton) | WALA | 1 |
59 | Little Rock-Pine Bluff | KATV | 1 |
61 | Tulsa | KTUL | 1 |
66 | Spokane | KHQ | 1 |
80 | Toledo | WTOL | 1 |
82 | Colorado Springs-Pueblo | KKTV | 1 |
92 | Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City & Dubuque | KWWL | 1 |
94 | Baton Rouge | WBRZ | 1 |
96 | Burlington-Plattsburgh | WPTZ | 1 |
98 | South Bend-Elkhart | WSBT | 1 |
99 | Myrtle Beach-Florence | WBTW | 1 |
101 | Boise | KBOI | 1 |
110 | Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches) | KLTV | 1 |
113 | Eugene | KVAL | 1 |
114 | Fargo-Valley City | KXJB-LD | 1 |
123 | Peoria-Bloomington | WMBD | 1 |
135 | Columbia-Jefferson City | KOMU | 1 |
141 | Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston) | KFYR | 1 |
142 | Topeka | KTKA | 1 |
146 | Palm Springs | KMIR | 1 |
149 | Wichita Falls & Lawton | KAUZ | 1 |
160 | Gainesville | WGFL | 1 |
161 | Missoula | KPAX | 1 |
167 | Billings | KTVQ | 1 |
171 | Utica | WKTV | 1 |
176 | Harrisonburg | WHSV | 1 |
183 | Marquette | WLUC-DT2 | 1 |
184 | Bend, OR | KOHD | 1 |
188 | Lafayette, IN | WLFI | 1 |
State / Province | Players |
---|---|
California | 168 |
New York | 28 |
Illinois | 19 |
Texas | 16 |
Massachusetts | 15 |
Pennsylvania | 15 |
Virginia | 15 |
Michigan | 14 |
Oregon | 13 |
New Jersey | 12 |
Ohio | 12 |
Florida | 9 |
Maryland | 9 |
Arizona | 8 |
Minnesota | 8 |
Washington | 7 |
District of Columbia | 5 |
Nevada | 5 |
Colorado | 4 |
Connecticut | 4 |
Georgia | 4 |
Kentucky | 4 |
North Carolina | 4 |
Ontario | 4 |
Tennessee | 4 |
Indiana | 3 |
Maine | 3 |
Wisconsin | 3 |
Delaware | 2 |
Idaho | 2 |
Kansas | 2 |
Louisiana | 2 |
Missouri | 2 |
Montana | 2 |
North Dakota | 2 |
Alabama | 1 |
Arkansas | 1 |
Iowa | 1 |
New Hampshire | 1 |
New Mexico | 1 |
Oklahoma | 1 |
Puerto Rico | 1 |
Rhode Island | 1 |
South Carolina | 1 |
Utah | 1 |
Vermont | 1 |
Rank | Market | Station | Players |
---|---|---|---|
4 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 2 |
15 | Detroit | WDIV | 2 |
2 | Los Angeles | KABC | 1 |
7 | Atlanta | WXIA | 1 |
14 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | KARE | 1 |
21 | Portland, OR | KATU | 1 |
38 | Austin | KXAN | 1 |
46 | Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News | WVEC | 1 |
48 | Albuquerque-Santa Fe | KRQE | 1 |
49 | Louisville | WLKY | 1 |
61 | Tulsa | KTUL | 1 |
98 | South Bend-Elkhart | WSBT | 1 |
140 | Duluth-Superior, WI | KBJR-DT2 | 1 |