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Sault Ste. Marie, ON (Various)

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All courtesy of the Sault Star

Lake Superior Cablevision: 1983-1984
3 - WNEM NBC 5 Bay City
4 - WKBD IND 50 Detroit
6 - CJIC CBC 5 Sault Ste. Marie
7 - CICO TVO 20 Sault Ste. Marie
8 - WCML PBS 6 Alpena
9 - WWUP CBS 10 Sault Ste. Marie
11 - CKCY CTV 2 Sault Ste. Marie
12 - WJRT ABC 12 Flint
13 - CBLFT Radio-Canada 26 Sault Ste. Marie
16/C - Superchannel (Pay TV) (1984)
17/D - Superchannel (Pay TV) (1983)
18/E - First Choice (Pay TV)
19/F - C Channel (Pay TV) (gone by 1984)
20/G - CICI MCTV-CTV 3 Elliot Lake

Lake Superior Cablevision: February 1987
2 - TV Guide
3 - WNEM NBC 5 Bay City
4 - WKBD Fox 50 Detroit
5 - News/Time/Temperature
6 - CJIC CBC 5 Sault Ste. Marie
7 - CICO TVO 20 Sault Ste. Marie
8 - La Chaine Francaise (TVO French)
9 - WWUP CBS 10 Sault Ste. Marie
10 - Community Access
11 - CHBX CTV 2 Sault Ste. Marie
12 - WJRT ABC 12 Flint
13 - CBLFT Radio-Canada 26 Sault Ste. Marie
16 - First Choice-Superchannel (Pay TV)
18 - TSN (Pay TV)
19 - MuchMusic (Pay TV)
20 - Nashville Network (Pay TV)
21 - A&E (Pay TV)
22 - CNN (Pay TV)
23 - WCML PBS 6 Alpena
24 - Home Shopping
25 - TV Guide
26 - CICI MCTV-CTV 3 Elliot Lake
27 - House of Commons
28 - Ontario Legislature
29 - Toronto Stock Exchange
30 - Broadcast News Service

Shaw Cable: 1995-96
3 - CIII Global 12 Sault Ste. Marie
4 - WGKI Fox/UPN 33 Cadillac
6 - CJIC MCTV-CBC 5 Sault Ste. Marie
7 - CICO TVO 20 Sault Ste. Marie
8 - La Chaine Francaise -> TFO
9 - WWUP CBS 10 Sault Ste. Marie
10 - Community Access
11 - CHBX MCTV-CTV 2 Sault Ste. Marie
12 - WJRT ABC 12 Flint
13 - CBLFT Radio-Canada 26 Sault Ste. Marie
14 - WNMU PBS 13 Marquette
16 - WEYI NBC 25 Saginaw
18 - MuchMusic
19 - Vision TV
20 - YTV
21 - Weather Network
22 - CBC NewsWorld
23 - Family Channel (Pay TV)
24 - WGN Chicago (Pay TV)
25 - MoviePix (Pay TV)
26 - WSBK Boston (Pay TV)
27 - WTBS Atlanta (Pay TV)
28 - TMN (Pay TV)
29 - Showcase Television
30 - A&E
31 - CNN
32 - TNN
33 - TSN
34 - New Country Network
35 - Women's Television Network
36 - Bravo!
38 - Discovery Channel
39 - Life Network
40 - TeleLatino
NOTE: Nearby communities (Blind River, Elliot Lake, Espanola, Iron Bridge, Thessalon, Wawa) did not get WGKI, WNMU or WEYI. TV Guide indicates WUHF (Fox/Rochester), WDIV (NBC/Detroit) and WTVS (PBS/Detroit) were carried in the former three communities and I assume the same was true in the latter three as well.
 
Notice WGTQ (licensed to Sault Michigan) was never carried in Sault Ontario (which makes WGTQ's carriage in the 90s in Sudbury and other parts of northeast Ontario even more remarkable than it already was). Conversely, CHBX (licensed to Sault Ontario) has never been carried in Sault Michigan AFAIK
 
ftballfan said:
Notice WGTQ (licensed to Sault Michigan) was never carried in Sault Ontario (which makes WGTQ's carriage in the 90s in Sudbury and other parts of northeast Ontario even more remarkable than it already was). Conversely, CHBX (licensed to Sault Ontario) has never been carried in Sault Michigan AFAIK
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WGTQ wasn't even carried in Sault, Michigan in the '80s! The MI side also got WJRT for its ABC programming. And you're correct that CKCY/CHBX has never been carried on the MI side. Probably due at least in part to the large amount of American programming always carried on CTV (although CKCO and Global were long available in Port Huron). If I'm not mistaken, the only local Sault ON station ever carried on the MI side was CJIC, which of course no longer exists. The MI Sault has also always had WNMU as its PBS affiliate in place of WCML.
 
Here's the line-up from October 1972, from the Sault Star:

4 WKBD Detroit
5 WNEM Bay City
6 CJIC Sault Ste. Marie
7 EOAC Adult Education
8 CKSO Sudbuty
9 WWUP Sault Ste,. Marie
11 Time/Weather
12 WJRT Flint
13 CBFST Sudbury (SRC, networked from CBOFT Orrawa)
 
Why did the Flint/Bay City network stations leapfrog over those from Cadillac and Traverse City (or Alpena for that matter)?
 
IM42A said:
Why did the Flint/Bay City network stations leapfrog over those from Cadillac and Traverse City (or Alpena for that matter)?
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1. WGTU/WGTQ was a very weak ABC affiliate (no local news, a distant third, had to compete with WJRT, WLUK, and/or WZZM in the outlying parts of the market)
2. WTOM may have been too hard to pick up OTA at the headend as their tower was (and still is) in the Lower Peninsula on a short tower (WWUP and WGTQ are both on tall towers near Goetzville)
 
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