Paragon Cable-San Antonio (circa January 1991)

[ShawnHill1]

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Paragon Cable of San Antonio, TX (lineup published in TV Guide, January 26, 1991)

2 CNN Headline News
3 KMOL (4/NBC; now WOAI-TV)
4 The Nashville Network
5 Government Access
6 KENS (5/CBS)
7 KRRT (35/Fox; now KMYS, and affiliated with The CW)
8 KWEX (41/Univision)
9 Nickelodeon
10 KLRN (9/PBS)/The Travel Channel
11 KABB (29/Independent; now with Fox)
12 TBS SuperStation
13 KSAT (12/ABC)
14 HBO
15 Home Shopping Network
16 Showtime
17 KVDA (60/Telemundo)
18 Public Access
19 Galavision/University Access
20 WGN Chicago
21 Metro Markets
22 Catholic TV of San Antonio
23 Home Sports Entertainment (now Fox Sports Southwest)/C-SPAN 2
24 ESPN
25 TNT
26 The Family Channel (now Freeform)
27 American Movie Classics (now simply AMC)/The Nostalgia Channel (now Youtoo America)
28 A&E
29 Lifetime
30 The Discovery Channel/Access/JC Penney Shopping Channel
31 USA Network
32 HA! (one of the co-predecessors of Comedy Central)/VH-1
33 BET
34 MTV
35 CNN
36 The Weather Channel
37 CNBC
38 The Disney Channel
39 Cinemax
40 The Movie Channel
41 Barker channel
42 Financial News Network (eventually absorbed into CNBC)/First Choice pay-per-view
43 C-SPAN
44 Video Jubebox Network (eventually absorbed into MTV 2)
98 First Choice pay-per-view
99 First Choice pay-per-view

 

[Gregg.]

In very Hispanic San Antonio, there are only three channels in Spanish... Univision, Telemundo and Galavision. Maybe in 1991, there wasn't much else available in Spanish?

And notice some stations share a channel... I guess when the PBS station signed off for the night, you could watch The Travel Channel.

 

[CTListener]

In very Hispanic San Antonio, there are only three channels in Spanish... Univision, Telemundo and Galavision. Maybe in 1991, there wasn't much else available in Spanish?

And notice some stations share a channel... I guess when the PBS station signed off for the night, you could watch The Travel Channel.

In Lynn, Mass., (Warner Amex) in the '80s, WSBE Providence, a PBS station, was replaced by WTBS at signoff. Used to look forward to watching the last few innings of Braves baseball during their western road trips at 11:30 p.m.

 

[ShawnHill1]

Also, remember too that channel-sharing on cable was more necessity due in part of some networks (like HSE and AMC above) only operating nights and weekends.

I remember in my area of Los Angeles, the cable provider (at the time, Continental Cablevision) had The Weather Channel and Bravo (in its classical arts days) share a channel, and AMC, if I remember correctly also shared a channel with either a local station or FNN.