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| Rank | Group or Firm | Stations | % of US TV homes reached |
| 1 | Westinghouse/CBS | 14 | 31.5 |
| 2 | Tribune (Renaissance) | 16 | 25.7 |
| 3 | NBC | 11 | 24.7 |
| 4 | Disney/ABC | 10 | 24.1 |
| 5 | Fox | 12 | 22.1 |
| 6 | Silver King | 16 | 22.0 |
| 7 | Paxson | 16 | 18.0 |
| 8 | Chris Craft | 8 | 17.7 |
| 9 | Gannett | 15 | 14.1 |
| 10 | Univision | 11 | 12.9 |
| 11 | New World | 10 | 12.8 |
| 12 | Telemundo | 8 | 10.4 |
| 13 | Viacom | 12 | 10.1 |
| 14 | Young | 13 | 9.1 |
| 15 | Sinclair/River City | 22 | 8.9 |
| 16 | Scripps Howard | 9 | 8.0 |
| 17 | A. H. Belo | 7 | 8.0 |
| 18 | Cox | 7 | 7.7 |
| 19 | Hearst | 7 | 7.3 |
| 20 | Post-Newsweek | 6 | 7.0 |
| 21 | LIN TV | 9 | 6.3 |
| 22 | Providence Journal | 11 | 5.4 |
| 23 | Pulitzer | 10 | 5.2 |
| 24 | Ellis Acq./Raycom | 22 | 4.0 |
| 25 | Allbritton | 8 | 3.9 |