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Myrtle Beach, SC (March 5, 1986)

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Cox Cable
Myrtle Beach, Conway
2 HBO
3 WWAY-ABC Wilmington
4 WGSE Myrtle Beach
5 WCSC-CBS Charleston
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 WHMC-PBS Conway
8 WPDE-ABC Florence
9 WJKA-CBS Wilmington
10 WIS-NBC Columbia
11 WTBS Atlanta
12 WCOX
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
14 Local Weather/Messages
15 WGN Chicago
16 TNN
17 ESPN
18 WOR New York
19 MTV
20 Nickelodeon
21 Showtime
22 Disney Channel

Clearview Cable
Surfside Beach, Garden City, Murrells Inlet, Pawleys Island, Socastee, Litchfield Beach, Myrtle Beach AFB
2 WHMC-PBS Conway
3 WWAY-ABC Wilmington
4 HBO
5 WCSC-CBS Charleston
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 Local Weather/Messages
8 WGSE Myrtle Beach
9 WJKA-CBS Wilmington
10 WPDE-ABC Florence
11 WTBS Atlanta
12 WCIV-NBC Charleston
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
14 MTV
15 TNN/VH1
16 Cinemax
17 USA Network
18 The Movie Channel
19 Nickelodeon
20 Playboy Channel
21 ESPN
22 Disney Channel
24 CNN Headline News
25 CBN
27 Lifetime
28 CNN
29 A&E

Jones Cable
North Myrtle Beach, Atlantic Beach, Briarcliffe
2 USA Network
3 Local Weather/Messages
4 ESPN
5/20 HBO
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 WGN Chicago
8 CNN
9 WHMC-PBS Conway
10 WGSE Myrtle Beach
11 WTBS Atlanta
12 WWAY-ABC Wilmington
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
14 CBN
16 TNN
17 MTV
18 USA Network
19 WPDE-ABC Florence
24 Nickelodeon

Horry Cable
Forestbrook, Cypress Creek, Tarpon Bay, Tarpon Bay II, Burcale Rd, areas west of Intracoastal Waterway
2 HBO
3 WWAY-ABC Wilmington
4 WTBS Atlanta
5 WPDE-ABC Florence
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 ESPN
8 WJKA-CBS Wilmington
9 WGN Chicago
10 WHMC-PBS Conway
11 WGSE Myrtle Beach
12 WCOX
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
17 MTV
18 USA Network
19 Nickelodeon
20 WOR New York
21 KTVT Fort Worth
22 Disney Channel

Horry Telephone
Loris, Wampee
2 WBTW-CBS Florence
3 ESPN
5 WGSE Myrtle Beach
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 WHMC-PBS Conway
8 HBO
9 WGN Chicago
10 WIS-NBC Columbia
11 WTBS Atlanta
12 WPDE-ABC Florence
13 WWAY-ABC Wilmington

Alert Cable
Waccamaw Neck, Georgetown
2 WCBD-ABC Charleston
3 WWAY-ABC Wilmington
4 HBO
5 WCSC-CBS Charleston
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 WITV-PBS Charleston
9 Local Weather/Messages
10 WIS-NBC Columbia
11 WCIV-NBC Charleston
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
16 TNN
18 Showtime
19 The Movie Channel
22 Playboy Channel
25 MTV
26 Nickelodeon
30 CNN
31 USA Network
33 Lifetime
35 ESPN

Little River
Little River
2 HBO
3 Local Weather/Messages
5 WWAY-ABC Wilmington
6 WECT-NBC Wilmington
7 CBN
8 WJKA-CBS Wilmington
9 ESPN
10 Nickelodeon
11 WTBS Atlanta
12 WUNJ-PBS Wilmington
13 WBTW-CBS Florence
 
Kinda surprised to see KTVT that far east. It was on the bird then but mostly, as far as I was aware, on cable systems in west Texas and Oklahoma and not really anywhere else in the country.
But very cool that at least a few people in South Carolina could watch Texas Rangers games and World Class Wrestling on Saturday nights.
 
Scott from NM said:
Kinda surprised to see KTVT that far east. It was on the bird then but mostly, as far as I was aware, on cable systems in west Texas and Oklahoma and not really anywhere else in the country.
But very cool that at least a few people in South Carolina could watch Texas Rangers games and World Class Wrestling on Saturday nights.
Click to expand...

I'm reminded here of some cable system in remotest West Virginia in the 1980s (I want to say Lost River in either Pendleton or Hardy county, but I wouldn't swear to that) that got its networks, or at least CBS and NBC (probably close enough to get WHSV ABC OTA), from... Toledo, Ohio. Evidently those were the easiest ones for them to get, or they had just one satellite dish that pointed at whichever satellite got the Toledo stations, or whatever.

I don't think I dreamed this, I know I saw it somewhere.
 
Charleston and Wilmington stations (except for WUNJ-39 PBS) have disappeared entirely from MB cable, but to this day, it is easier to get stations from either city within MB proper, with a decent antenna, than it is to get the "locals" that have their sticks out at Hamer SC (near South of the Border). With the former, you have either a water path or very low-lying shore area, whereas the signals from inland have to come over circa 60 miles of terrain that, while flat, is all land.
 
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