In the early 2000s, the greater Albany market had the distinction of having the highest concentration of FM broadcast stations east of the Mississippi River.
A few individual programs in languages including Spanish, Italian and Arabic are scheduled, primarily on college owned and operated stations.
Fringe FM signals which can be received in the Albany market include: WRGB has the distinction of being the very first affiliated station of the NBC Television Network.
The Albany TV DMA is served by the following stations, providing programming from many of the English-language American broadcast television networks: WRGB (CBS), WTEN (ABC), WNYT (NBC), WXXA (Fox), WMHT (PBS), WCWN (CW), WNYA (MyNetworkTV), and WYPX (ION).
There are currently no local affiliates for any of the Spanish-language domestic broadcast television networks, however the national service of Univision is provided via cable TV.