The main table includes all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! in 2024-25. Thus, they exclude:
Jeopardy! is continuing the practice, revived in Season 37, of allowing contestants to be introduced as "originally from" a location other than their current residence, which had been ended in 2016. Those introductions are not separated out in these statistics.
What's here:
(Credits: Zap2it & TitanTV for TV schedules for each market; ThinkTV for a listing of Canadian market sizes, enabling me to rank them properly with the U.S. markets; and the U.S. Census Bureau for KML files of county boundaries for use with Google Earth.)
Ranks represent market size estimates for 2023-24.
Updated through Week 2 of Season 41 (2024-09-20).
Rank | Market | Station | Players |
---|---|---|---|
1 | New York | WABC | 4 |
— | Toronto / Hamilton | — | 1 |
4 | Philadelphia | WPVI | 1 |
13 | Seattle-Tacoma | KOMO | 1 |
19 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | WOIO | 1 |
20 | Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto | KXTV | 1 |
30 | San Diego | KNSD | 1 |
34 | Kansas City | WDAF | 1 |
35 | Austin | KXAN | 1 |
42 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | WWMT | 1 |
59 | Little Rock-Pine Bluff | KATV | 1 |
72 | Madison | WMTV | 1 |
73 | Omaha | WOWT | 1 |
79 | Charleston-Huntington | WSAZ | 1 |
99 | South Bend-Elkhart | WSBT | 1 |
127 | Monterey-Salinas | KSBW | 1 |
130 | Corpus Christi | KZTV | 1 |
State / Province | Players |
---|---|
California | 3 |
New York | 3 |
Michigan | 2 |
Texas | 2 |
Arkansas | 1 |
Kansas | 1 |
Nebraska | 1 |
New Jersey | 1 |
Ohio | 1 |
Ontario | 1 |
Pennsylvania | 1 |
Washington | 1 |
West Virginia | 1 |
Wisconsin | 1 |