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Central Interior BC (May 16, 1990)

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Bluenoser

from Teleguide (Williams Lake-based publication inserted into newspapers across the region)

FRASER LAKE
6 CKPG-CBC Prince George
9 BCTV-CTV Vancouver

VANDERHOOF
2 CITV Edmonton
3 CKPG-CBC Prince George
4 CHCH Hamilton
5 CBUFT-SRC Vancouver
6 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
7 WDIV-NBC Detroit
8 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
9 WJBK-CBS Detroit
10 TSN
11 KCTS-PBS Seattle
13 Knowledge Network

FORT ST. JAMES
3 WJBK-CBS Detroit
4 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
5 CBC North
6 WGN Chicago
7 CKPG-CBC Prince George
9 WDIV-NBC Detroit
11 TSN
13 Knowledge Network

PRINCE GEORGE
2 CITV Edmonton
3 CKPG-CBC Prince George
5 CBUFT-SRC Vancouver
6 KING-NBC Seattle
7 KIRO-CBS Seattle
8 KOMO-ABC Seattle
9 KCTS-PBS Seattle
11 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
12 Vision TV
13 Knowledge Network
14 CHCH Hamilton
15 A&E
16 TSN
18 TNN
20 Family Channel
21 Superchannel
22 WDIV-NBC Detroit
23 YTV

QUESNEL/WILLIAMS LAKE
2 KIRO-CBS Seattle
3 (Quesnel only) CKPG-CBC Prince George (Quesnel had OTA relays for both CKPG and CFJC)
4 KOMO-ABC Seattle
5 KING-NBC Seattle
6 CITV Edmonton
7 CFJC-CBC Kamloops
8 CBUFT-SRC Vancouver
11 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
12 Knowledge Network
13 Vision TV
14 CHCH Hamilton
15 A&E
16 TSN
18 TNN
20 Family Channel
21 Superchannel
22 WDIV-NBC Detroit
23 YTV

100 MILE HOUSE
2 KIRO-CBS Seattle
4 KOMO-ABC Seattle
5 CBUFT-SRC Vancouver
6 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
7 CFJC-CBC Kamloops
8 KING-NBC Seattle
9 KCTS-PBS Seattle
11 Vision TV
12 Knowledge Network
13 CITV Edmonton
14 CHCH Hamilton
15 A&E
16 TSN
18 TNN
20 Family Channel
21 Superchannel
22 WDIV-NBC Detroit
23 YTV

ANDERSON
3 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
4 WDIV-NBC Detroit
5 CFJC-CBC Kamloops
6 WTVS-PBS Detroit
7 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
8 Knowledge Network
9 CBC North
12 CITV Edmonton
13 Superchannel

CLINTON
2 TNN
3 WDIV-NBC Detroit
4 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
5 WJBK-CBS Detroit
6 WTVS-PBS Detroit
7 Superchannel
8 TSN
9 CITV Edmonton
10 USA Network
11 Knowledge Network
12 CFJC-CBC Kamloops
13 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
16 Discovery Channel
17 WGN Chicago
18 WTBS Atlanta
19 WWOR Secaucus
20 A&E
21 YTV

CACHE CREEK/ASHCROFT
2 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
3 CITV Edmonton
4 TSN
5 YTV
6 USA Network
7 WDIV-NBC Detroit
8 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
9 WJBK-CBS Detroit
11 TNN
12 Superchannel
13 WTVS-PBS Detroit
15 WWOR Secaucus
16 A&E
17 Discovery Channel
18 WGN Chicago
20 CFJC-CBC Kamloops
21 WTBS Atlanta
22 CHCH Hamilton

LOGAN LAKE (unlike the other systems listed here, this was a translator system)
2 TSN
5 YTV
7 WDIV-NBC Detroit
9 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
10 WTVS-PBS Detroit
13 WJBK-CBS Detroit
40 CITV Edmonton
46 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
51 CHCH Hamilton
59 CBC North
62 Knowledge Network
68 TNN

SAVONA
2 TNN
3 WDIV-NBC Detroit
4 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
5 WJBK-CBS Detroit
6 WTVS-PBS Detroit
7 Superchannel
9 CFJC-CBC Kamloops
10 A&E
11 Knowledge Network
12 BCTV-CTV Vancouver
13 CITV Edmonton
21 YTV
22 WWOR Secaucus
23 WTBS Atlanta
24 Discovery Channel
25 USA Network
27 WGN Chicago
 
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Also noted a lot of Detroit stations into British Columbia as mentioned above. My best guess is a translator from Windsor, just across the River from Detroit.
 
Nope.
Cancom provided Detroit TV over the Anik satellite. I believe they went up to satellite around 1984. Cancom also distributed CITV (Edmonton) and CHAN/BCTV (Vancouver), along with CHCH (Hamilton).
 
You're close- CANCOM launched in 1981...there was also a fourth channel, TCTV, which carried TVA programs, mainly from CFTM Montreal with some programs from regional stations.
 
So did Fraser Lake's "cable" indeed only still have 2 channels in 1990 (making it a remnant of a true old-time CATV system), or were these actually translators for that town that were on 6 and 9?

BTW Fraser Lake's population was 988 as of 2016.
 
I assume KIRO, KOMO and KING were all brought into Prince George and other communities through long microwave links? Other communities only used Cancom satellite. Why did they use Detroit, may I ask? Perhaps the largest Eastern time market to a Canadian border crossing?
For satellite viewers, they were encrypted with Oak Orion and not available in the United States. Satellite viewers outside of major markets could use Primetime 24 and/or Denver stations when they were uplinked in the late 1980s. Some very isolated cable companies used Denver stations, particularly in Montana. KRMA was all over Montana before KUSM expanded to western Montana.
 
Not certain what the reasoning was for CANCOM choosing Detroit stations, but it was controversial in some areas when they replaced legacy US signals (here in the Maritimes, we had Bangor channels-mainly WVII and WLBZ, WABI was only carried on some larger systems;and in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, North Dakota channels (usually from Minot or Williston) were their option).
 
crainbebo said:
I assume KIRO, KOMO and KING were all brought into Prince George and other communities through long microwave links? Other communities only used Cancom satellite. Why did they use Detroit, may I ask? Perhaps the largest Eastern time market to a Canadian border crossing?
For satellite viewers, they were encrypted with Oak Orion and not available in the United States. Satellite viewers outside of major markets could use Primetime 24 and/or Denver stations when they were uplinked in the late 1980s. Some very isolated cable companies used Denver stations, particularly in Montana. KRMA was all over Montana before KUSM expanded to western Montana.
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Before PT24, a lot of Montana and Wyoming (and even far western North Dakota) picked up Salt Lake City stations. I think there are some very rural areas (in Texas, where there are several markets with no PBS members) that still carry KRMA to this day (or did until recently; most of the larger communities in those markets carry KERA from Dallas)
 
Except Montana locals have existed since the beginning of tv. Not sure under what circumstances SLC would be allowed. Though KSL seemed to have some sort of exemption that allowed them to penetrate markets like Idaho Falls and Pocatello in the 2010’s. Perhaps someone can explain this. Religious exemption?
 
seatownmedia said:
Except Montana locals have existed since the beginning of tv. Not sure under what circumstances SLC would be allowed. Though KSL seemed to have some sort of exemption that allowed them to penetrate markets like Idaho Falls and Pocatello in the 2010’s. Perhaps someone can explain this. Religious exemption?
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Most of Montana consisted of short markets (i.e. fewer than three stations, with stations sharing more than one network) until fairly recently. Here is when the largest cities in Montana got their third station:
Billings - 1980
Butte - 1996
Great Falls - 1986
Missoula - 1990
 
ftballfan said:
Before PT24, a lot of Montana and Wyoming (and even far western North Dakota) picked up Salt Lake City stations. I think there are some very rural areas (in Texas, where there are several markets with no PBS members) that still carry KRMA to this day (or did until recently; most of the larger communities in those markets carry KERA from Dallas)
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Ok
 
This is a challenging thread, probably because the Canada US tv situation was complicated.

A bit of my personal history…I remember KVOS Bellingham, WA was once a CBS affiliated station. But they eventually became an indie and a station carried on Canadian cable. They provided US syndicated programming to Vancouver in the 90’s and early 2000’s, not sure of their status today.

In the mid 1990’s I watched Seattle tv news in Prince George, British Columbia (hundreds of miles north of Vancouver) on the way to Alaska. I also watched Detroit tv news in the same period in the remote Canadian town of Watson Lake. (as referenced earlier in thread). But how weird to turn on the tv in far Northern British Columbia and get Detroit local news! I thought I might have been imagining all this, but no it was true!
 
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