Wilks Broadcasting Group, LLC is a media company based in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States, and owns 21 radio stations in 6 mid-size markets.

August 1: CBS Radio announces that it will put 50 radio stations in mid-size markets up for sale.

G.M. once dominated the mid-size market, but Ford's Taurus and Mercury Sable have made inroads since their introduction in late 1985.

Stephens Media Group is a Tulsa, Oklahoma based radio holding group that owns a few radio stations particularly in small to mid-size markets.

Cinemark USA, for one, has 1,174 screens, and 200 under construction, primarily in mid-size markets of maybe 500,000 people.

The Accord competed with Japanese competitors such as the Toyota Corona, Datsun 510, Mazda 626 and Mitsubishi Galant, which were also part of the mid-size Japanese market.

"With those firms coming into the mid-size market and the government sector," he said, "it has really made it very difficult for African-American firms to compete."

But Ford was eager to crack the giant mid-size market, the industry's largest segment, and one that had long been dominated by the General Motors Corporation.

Ford therefore entered the 1960s with the small Anglia, Popular and Prefect, the big "three graces" launched back in 1956, and NOT the mid-size market Classic.

In some of the mid-size markets, diaries provide viewer information for up to three additional "sweeps" months (October, January, and March).