Portsmouth, OH 1/6/1990

[ftballfan]

From: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=U3HXUhiBGqIC&dat=19900106&printsec=frontpage&hl=en (page 16)
2 - CBN Cable Network
3 - WSAZ (NBC 3 Huntington)
4 - MTV
5 - WLWT (NBC 5 Cincinnati) [kind of odd that WLWT is the second NBC instead of WCMH]
6 - WSYX (ABC 6 Columbus)
7 - Local Access
8 - WCHS (ABC 8 Charleston)
9 - ESPN
10 - WBNS (CBS 10 Columbus)
11 - WVAH (FOX 11 Charleston)
12 - USA Network
13 - WOWK (CBS 13 Huntington)
14 - The Nashville Network
15 - Headline News
16 - Home Box Office
17 - WTBS (IND 17 Atlanta)
18 - Showtime
19 - WXIX (FOX 19 Cincinnati [Newport KY])
20 - WKMR (PBS 38 Morehead KY) [KET]
21 - Nickelodeon
22 - Cable Value Network
23 - WUAB (IND 43 Lorain)
24 - Arts & Entertainment Network
25 - American Movie Classics
26 - Financial News Network
27 - Cable News Network
28 - The Weather Channel
29 - Lifetime
30 - Discovery Channel
31 - Home Shopping Network
32 - C-SPAN
33 - WTSF (IND 61 Ashland)
34 - WPBO (PBS 42 Portsmouth)
98 - Cinemax
99 - Disney Channel

 

[ohdxer]

5 - WLWT (NBC 5 Cincinnati) [kind of odd that WLWT is the second NBC instead of WCMH]

Not really. WLWT was the flagship station of that carried all of the televised baseball games of the Cincinnati Reds baseball network back then.

 

[ftballfan]

Not really. WLWT was the flagship station of that carried all of the televised baseball games of the Cincinnati Reds baseball network back then.

I've kind of realized that back in the pre-syndex and RSN era, stations were more likely to be seen outside of their market if they had sports. Many areas that are between markets (i.e. areas in which at least one neighboring county is in a different market) still have multiple CBS and NBC affiliates as in the early days of cable, CBS had the NFC games while NBC had the AFC games.