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What is Spot Cable?
Cable advertising can be broken down into two categories: network and spot. Network cable refers to buying commercial time directly from
a cable network to reach their entire national audience. Spot Cable refers to buying commercial time on various cable networks in a specific market(s) or geographic area(s). Spot Cable is target ability at its best
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Why buy Spot Cable?
Because it’s SMART!
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What is a DMA?
Acronym for Designated Market Area. DMAs are a way of designating particular geographic markets, and are often ranked by size of population. For example, New York City is the nation's largest DMA so its DMA ranking is 1.
What is an Interconnect?
An interconnect is simply a large group of cable systems within a DMA that are “connected” together. An interconnect gives advertisers the option to reach all cable households within a given market with one buy, one contact and one tape.

What is a Zone?
A Zone is a local area or subset of a DMA.

What is Market Segmentation?
Market Segmentation gives advertisers the ability to deliver customized advertising messages to specific Zones within a market. Click here to learn more.

How do I get in touch with someone from NCC?
NCC has 16 offices across the country. Click here to be directed to our offices page and call a contact in the sales office nearest you.