RESTON, Va., Jan. 23, 2018 -- comScore today announced an agreement with local broadcasting group Cordillera Communication, expanding its existing relationship to include local TV ratings for WLEX (NBC) in Lexington, Ky., KATC (ABC) in Lafayette, La. and KOAA (NBC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. In addition to local ratings measurement information, the expansion agreement includes access to comScore's Advanced Audience behavioral segmentations for automotive and political ratings.

Cordillera owns and operates television stations and digital news platforms in 11 geographically diverse small- and medium-sized markets, serving more than 2.3 million U.S. households. Lexington, Lafayette and Colorado Springs join Corpus Christie, Texas, where Cordillera already leverages comScore's stable and granular local market measurement services.

"We are excited to continue to grow our relationship with Cordillera Communication," said Steve Walsh, executive vice president of local market sales at comScore. "This expansion further highlights the value that our local measurement insights provide to our partners in markets across the U.S."

With more than a decade of experience measuring television viewership from the set-top box level across millions of households in all 210 markets, comScore is the industry's trusted source of passively-measured local television audience data. comScore's clean matching of local TV viewing data combined with Advanced Audience behavior segmentations such as automotive purchasing behavior and voter registration information continues to provide local TV stations and agencies with the tools to reach audiences in ways they had not previously considered, and reposition their business decision-making with insights not available from other sources. 

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