Greenwood, MS (August 10, 1980)

[Bluenoser]

from Greenwood Commonwealth via Newspapers.com

2 WJTV Jackson
3 WLBT Jackson
4 WABG Greenwood
5 WMC Memphis
6 Weather
8 WREG Memphis
9 WTVA Tupelo
10 WMAA Jackson (changed to WMPN in 1990)
11 WTBS Atlanta
12 WAPT Jackson

 

[anotherguyTN]

I'm surprised they didn't have WHBQ 13 in Memphis as well.

 

[CTListener]

I'm surprised they didn't have WHBQ 13 in Memphis as well.

I was in Stuttgart, AR, in 1980. The cable system there had all three Memphis network affiliates and all three Little Rock affiliates plus public broadcaster KETS. I'd imagine the reason the Greenwood system chose to omit WHBQ because it had to find room for so many other Mississippi stations. Or, perhaps, WHBQ was there all along, since it would have been unusual to leave Channel 13 vacant on those early 12-channel lineups. Transcription error by Bluenoser or omission by the newspaper?

 

[Bluenoser]

I transcribed what was published...didn't see a 13 listed, and they listed stations by cable channel.

 

[CTListener]

I transcribed what was published...didn't see a 13 listed, and they listed stations by cable channel.

No Channel 7 either. The good people of Greenwood weren't getting much bang for the 10 bucks or so a month they were probably dishing out for cable TV back in 1980.

The Stuttgart system had four Little Rock stations, three from Memphis, KTVT and KXTX from Dallas/Ft. Worth, WTBS Atlanta, HBO and a Reuters news/sports text channel with NOAA Radio playing in the background (or CB chatter from the trucker channel -- 19 -- when they were having problems with their weather radio receiver). That's a full lineup, 1980-style!