Abilene, TX (November 24, 1996)

[ftballfan]

Source: Abilene Reporter-News

TCI Cable
2 – TBS SuperStation
3 – C-SPAN
4 – KTXS (ABC 12 Sweetwater)
5 – KRBC (NBC 9 Abilene)
6 – KIDZ-LP (FOX 54 Abilene)
7 – K07UF (IND Abilene)
8 – Lifetime
10 – KTAB (CBS 32 Abilene)
11 – KTVT (CBS 11 Fort Worth)
12 – Disney Channel
13 – KERA (PBS 13 Dallas)
14 – Encore
15 – Cinemax
16 – Showtime
17 – Black Entertainment Television / C-SPAN 2
18 – HBO
19 – QVC
20 – FX
21 – Weather Channel
22 – Starz!
23 – CNBC
24 – MTV
25 – Headline News
26 – Discovery Channel
27 – USA Network
28 – A&E Network
29 – Nickelodeon
30 – TNT
31 – CMT
32 – Fox Sports Southwest
33 – The Nashville Network
34 – ESPN
35 – CNN
36 – Family Channel
37 – Univision
38 – Intro Television
39 – American Movie Classics

 

[crainbebo]

No Sci-Fi, VH1, or Comedy Central for a city of over 100,000 at the time. Or WGN, for WB access. 7th Heaven had just premiered and its family-friendly, Christian plot would have likely gotten viewers in deeply-conservative Abilene.

 

[ftballfan]

No Sci-Fi, VH1, or Comedy Central for a city of over 100,000 at the time. Or WGN, for WB access. 7th Heaven had just premiered and its family-friendly, Christian plot would have likely gotten viewers in deeply-conservative Abilene.

I spent a lot of time when I was younger visiting family in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which was also served by TCI during this time frame. Sci-Fi, VH1, and Comedy Central weren't carried at the time (they did have WGN).

Another odd thing about Abilene is that they were still carrying KTVT over a year after it flipped to CBS! I'm surprised TCI didn't replace it with KDAF or KTXA (DFW's affiliates of WB and UPN respectively) or WGN (for WB access)