San Luis Obispo, CA (March 5, 1997)

[TR1968]

from The Tribune via Newspapers.com

Sonic Cable
1 Request TV 1
2 KCBS-CBS Los Angeles
3 KEYT-ABC Santa Barbara
4 KSBY-NBC San Luis Obispo
5 KT:LA-WB Los Angeles
6 KSLO San Luis Obispo
7 KABC-ABC Los Angeles
8 KCET-PBS Los Angeles
9 KCAL Los Angeles
10 KTTV-Fox Los Angeles
11 KKFX-Fox Santa Barbara
12 KCOY-CBS Santa Maria
13 KCOP-UPN Los Angeles
14 CNN Headline News
15 CNN
16 CNBC
17 Discovery Channel
18 TLC
19 History Channel
20 ESPN
21 Fox Sports West
22 HBO
23 Disney Channel
24 Cinemax
25 Showtime
26 The Movie Channel
27 Viewer's Choice 2
28 Turner Classic Movies
29 Comedy Central
30 MTV
31 USA Network
32 Lifetime
33 A&E
34 WTBS
35 TNT
36 Nickelodeon
37 Family Channel
38 QVC
39 TNN
40 Q2
41 E!
42 HGTV
43 Weather Channel
44 Cartoon Network
45 Galavision
46 VH1
47 K09UF San Luis Obispo (Spanish, relays K07TA Santa Maria)
48 ESPN2
49 Speedvision
50 OLN
51 Animal Planet
52 KADY-UPN Ventura
53 C-SPAN
54 C-SPAN2
95 Odyssey
96 EWTN
98 TBN

Falcon Cable
2 KCOY-CBS Santa Maria
3 KEYT-ABC Santa Barbara
4 KSBY-NBC San Luis Obispo
5 KTLA-WB Los Angales
7 Family Channel
8 KCET-PBS Los Angeles
9 KCAL Los Angeles
10 C-SPAN
11 KKFX-Fox Santa Barbara
12 QVC
13 KADY-UPN Ventura
14 WTBS
15 A&E
16 TLC
17 Disney Channel
18 Fox Sports West
19 Showtime
20 Cinemax
21 HBO
22 The Movie Channel
23 Bravo
25 CNN
26 TNN
27 AMC
28 Lifetime
29 Comedy Central
30 CNBC
31 Nickelodeon
32 ESPN
33 USA Network
34 Discovery Channel
35 TNT
36 MTV
39 HSN
42 ESPN2
43 History Channel
44 Turner Classic Movies
50 Romance Classics
51 Sci-Fi Channel
53 Weather Channel
54 CNN Headline News
55 HGTV
59-61 Public Access

SS Cable
2 KRMA-PBS Denver
3 KMGH-ABC Denver
4 Foxnet
5 KTLA-WB Los Angeles
6 KSBY-NBC San Luis Obispo
7 USA Network
8 CNN
9 WGN
10 HSN
11 ESPN
12 KCOY-CBS Santa Barbara
13 Lifetime
15 Nickelodeon
16 TLC
17 Discovery Channel
18 Fox Sports West
19 WTBS
20 A&E
21 HBO
22 Cinemax

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

SS Cable
2 KRMA-PBS Denver
3 KMGH-ABC Denver

This has to be the most random channels ever considering this was more of a California market than a Colorado market.

 

[TR1968]

This has to be the most random channels ever considering this was more of a California market than a Colorado market.

Yeah...wonder what the story was there? And ch 12 should read Santa Maria, not Santa Barbara...too many Santas in that market

 

[newsmark]

SS Cable piqued my curiosity. Looking at the map, I saw the town of San Simeon, about 40 miles up the coast from San Luis Obispo.
It kind of fit. The nearest ABC stations are 120 miles away. I'm not familiar with the terrain there, but 120 miles is pushing it for OTA.

And then in the 2018 TV & Cable Factbook, I found the listing for "San Simeon Community Cable."
That system lists KCOY, KSBY, and KTLA as being received off-air. (KTLA seems unlikely. It's 200 miles away and I don't see any translators up that way. It had to be by satellite.

And it also lists KUSA and KRMA from Denver.
The Factbook does NOT list an ABC station. And since KCOY no longer is a CBS station, I wonder about their current lineup.

 

[IM42A]

SS Cable piqued my curiosity. Looking at the map, I saw the town of San Simeon, about 40 miles up the coast from San Luis Obispo.
It kind of fit. The nearest ABC stations are 120 miles away. I'm not familiar with the terrain there, but 120 miles is pushing it for OTA.

And then in the 2018 TV & Cable Factbook, I found the listing for "San Simeon Community Cable."
That system lists KCOY, KSBY, and KTLA as being received off-air. (KTLA seems unlikely. It's 200 miles away and I don't see any translators up that way. It had to be by satellite.

And it also lists KUSA and KRMA from Denver.
The Factbook does NOT list an ABC station. And since KCOY no longer is a CBS station, I wonder about their current lineup.

If the Denver prime-time lineup were from 7 pm to 10 pm MT, then that would be 6 pm to 9 pm PT. It would be kind of strange to have a prime-time network lineup that early, but it's better than nothing at all, and the same holds true anywhere that is on the eastern edge of the MT and PT zones, and gets its networks from stations in the CT and MT zones respectively. Sparsely populated parts of western ND, SD, NE, and KS, right on the edge of the CT/MT boundary, would be in the same predicament, as well as Elko County NV, part of the SLC market.

You would think that as recently as 2018, San Simeon cable could have gotten Los Angeles or San Francisco via satellite, thereby getting around the problems with OTA at such a distance.