[miniatureape]

Some of my wife's projects have been featured on Cable TV shows and in large national magazines (Food and Wine, Brides magazine, Martha Stewart).

The amount of traffic she got from these was minuscule in comparison to popular online sources (Design Sponge).

The magazines in particular do tend to get put online and feed a small amount of views over time.

[TrevorJ]

From the experience I've had, I tend to think that all things being equal, a mention on a popular blog in your market will drive higher quality traffic than a television mention.