In 1997, then Mayor Ron Norick and Clay Bennett were trying to sell Oklahoma City and Tulsa as one media market and convince NHL expansion to place a team here, the committee didn't buy the sale of goods.

The NBA Relocation Site Committee that was here in Oklahoma City bought into the idea this time because they learned that 20% of the season tickets were sold in the Tulsa area.

The BOK Center is coming along, don't be surprised if 2 to 5 of the Sonics games are farmed to Tulsa.

The BOK Center will seat 18,041 for basketball with 34 luxury suites.
The Ford Center will lose seats from 19,163 to 18, 887 with 49 luxury suites expanding to 60 suites.

BOK Center:

BOK Center progress


Designated Metropolitan Areas (DMA) U.S. TV Households.

Oklahoma City (676,000 TV Households) /Tulsa (512,000 TV Households) that's equivalent to the St. Louis market.

Currently, our market is larger than the NBA's Memphis and New Orleans. The NFL's Buffalo and Jacksonville. In all fairness to Buffalo, you have nearby Rochester and Syracuse to beef up there markets.

DMA Rankings - US TV Households by Market

Our media market doesn't appear to be a problem with the anticipated support of our sister 93 miles northeast of us.