CF Cable TV was a local cable company serving portions of Montreal, Quebec, Canada that were NOT already serviced by Vidéotron as well as Laval and some of Montreal's western suburbs in August of 1995... Many of these areas are now serviced by Vidéotron (which bought CF Cable TV in 1997), Bell Fibe TV and a few other companies depending on exact geographic location...
Requested by: @mpepin
Source: Vintage TV Guide (1, 2)
CHANNELS:
2. Cable Guide
3. WCAX Burlington 3 (then and now, still CBS)
4. CBFT Montreal 2 (then and now, still the Radio-Canada flagship station)
5. CFJP Montreal 35 (TQS, now the Noovo flagship station) [1]
7. CFTM Montreal 10 (then and now, still the TVA flagship station)
8. CIVM Montreal 17 (Radio-Québec, now the Télé-Québec origin station) [2]
9. Accés Vision (Little is known of this channel at this time)
11. CFCF Montreal 12 (then and now, still a CTV affiliate, now a network O&O since 2001)
12. WCFE Plattsburgh 57 (then and now, still PBS)
13. CBMT Montreal 6 (then and now, still a CBC network O&O)
14. WETK Burlington 33 (then and now, still PBS) [3]
15. TV5Monde (now TV5 Québec Canada)
16. WPTZ North Pole (Plattsburgh) 5 (then and now, still NBC, license moved to Plattsburgh in 2011)
19. Réseau de l'information (RDI, or CBC Information Network in English)
20. Youth Television (more commonly known as YTV)
21. Canal Famille (Defunct, shut down as VRAK in October of 2023)
22. WVNY Burlington 22 (then and now, still ABC)
23. CFTU Montreal 29 (then and now, still a French-language educational independent station)
24. Télévision Ethnique du Québec (TEQ, now over-the-air as Citytv O&O CJNT) [4]
25. CBC Newsworld (now known as CBC News Network)
28. The Sports Network (now known simply as TSN) [5]
29. Discovery Channel Canada
30. MusiquePlus (Defunct, relaunched as ELLE Fictions in 2019)
31. Canal D
32. CNN
33. Réseau des Sports (RDS, the French-language feed of TSN)
34. MuchMusic
35. The Learning Channel (now known simply as TLC)
36. Life Network (Defunct, relaunched as Slice in 2007)
37. A&E
38. New Country Network (rebranded as Country Music Television or CMT starting in 1996)
39. Bravo! (now CTV Drama Channel, NO relation to the modern-day Rogers-owned Bravo)
40. VisionTV
43. The Movie Network (now Crave)
44. Super Écran
45. Family Channel (more commonly known simply as Family)
50. CJSS Cornwall 8 (CTV, defunct after it was shut down in 2017) [6]
51. The Movie Network Moviepix (now Starz Canada)
52. WUHF Rochester 31 (then and now, still FOX)
53. WTBS Atlanta 17 (Independent, now CW as WPCH) [7]
54. WSBK Boston 38 (UPN, now an independent station once again)
55. WGN Chicago 9 (WB, now a CW O&O) [8]
56. CICA Ottawa 24 (then and now, still TVO, repeat transmitter of CICA 19 Toronto)
58. Télélatino (now known simply as TLN)
NOTES:
Requested by: @mpepin
Source: Vintage TV Guide (1, 2)
CHANNELS:
2. Cable Guide
3. WCAX Burlington 3 (then and now, still CBS)
4. CBFT Montreal 2 (then and now, still the Radio-Canada flagship station)
5. CFJP Montreal 35 (TQS, now the Noovo flagship station) [1]
7. CFTM Montreal 10 (then and now, still the TVA flagship station)
8. CIVM Montreal 17 (Radio-Québec, now the Télé-Québec origin station) [2]
9. Accés Vision (Little is known of this channel at this time)
11. CFCF Montreal 12 (then and now, still a CTV affiliate, now a network O&O since 2001)
12. WCFE Plattsburgh 57 (then and now, still PBS)
13. CBMT Montreal 6 (then and now, still a CBC network O&O)
14. WETK Burlington 33 (then and now, still PBS) [3]
15. TV5Monde (now TV5 Québec Canada)
16. WPTZ North Pole (Plattsburgh) 5 (then and now, still NBC, license moved to Plattsburgh in 2011)
19. Réseau de l'information (RDI, or CBC Information Network in English)
20. Youth Television (more commonly known as YTV)
21. Canal Famille (Defunct, shut down as VRAK in October of 2023)
22. WVNY Burlington 22 (then and now, still ABC)
23. CFTU Montreal 29 (then and now, still a French-language educational independent station)
24. Télévision Ethnique du Québec (TEQ, now over-the-air as Citytv O&O CJNT) [4]
25. CBC Newsworld (now known as CBC News Network)
28. The Sports Network (now known simply as TSN) [5]
29. Discovery Channel Canada
30. MusiquePlus (Defunct, relaunched as ELLE Fictions in 2019)
31. Canal D
32. CNN
33. Réseau des Sports (RDS, the French-language feed of TSN)
34. MuchMusic
35. The Learning Channel (now known simply as TLC)
36. Life Network (Defunct, relaunched as Slice in 2007)
37. A&E
38. New Country Network (rebranded as Country Music Television or CMT starting in 1996)
39. Bravo! (now CTV Drama Channel, NO relation to the modern-day Rogers-owned Bravo)
40. VisionTV
43. The Movie Network (now Crave)
44. Super Écran
45. Family Channel (more commonly known simply as Family)
50. CJSS Cornwall 8 (CTV, defunct after it was shut down in 2017) [6]
51. The Movie Network Moviepix (now Starz Canada)
52. WUHF Rochester 31 (then and now, still FOX)
53. WTBS Atlanta 17 (Independent, now CW as WPCH) [7]
54. WSBK Boston 38 (UPN, now an independent station once again)
55. WGN Chicago 9 (WB, now a CW O&O) [8]
56. CICA Ottawa 24 (then and now, still TVO, repeat transmitter of CICA 19 Toronto)
58. Télélatino (now known simply as TLN)
NOTES:
- The network was first launched in 1986 as Télévision Quatre-Saisons (or Four Seasons Television in English) but was rebranded as simply V in 2009 before being relaunched again as Noovo in 2020... CFJP has been and still remains the network's flagship from its inception, also in 1986...
- Originally launched as Radio-Québec in 1975, the television network was renamed Télé-Québec in 1996, CIVM has been and still continues to be the originating station for the network...
- WETK is the originating station for Vermont Public Media, a network of PBS member stations in the state of Vermont...
- La Télévision Ethnique du Québec (TEQ for short, Quebec Ethnic Television in English) launched sometime in the 1980s, as a cable-exclusive public access channel... CJNT signed onto the air in September of 1997, carrying many of TEQ's programming... But that network ceased operations in the late 1990s making CJNT an full-time independent station... CJNT would become Montreal's Citytv network owned-and-operated station in 2013 and continues to operate as such ever since...
- Beginning in 2013, TSN split its national feed to 4 regional networks across Canada with TSN5 being assigned to Quebec as well as far southeastern Ontario (along and east of a line from (roughly) Point Alexander to (near) Rednersville, according to Wikipedia) and Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)...
- CJSS signed onto the air in October of 1959 but only lasted a few years as a private CBC affiliate before being shut down and subsequently converted into a full-time satellite station of CTV affiliate (now network owned-and-operated) CJOH 13 in Ottawa in 1963... CJSS was shut down completely and permanently in 2017 and its license subsequently returned to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, Canada's FCC equivalent) immediately thereafter...
- In 2007, TBS and WTBS were separated with the latter being relaunched as WPCH-TV... Today, the station is owned by Gray Television while TBS is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery...
- Starting in 1999, WGN began operating a separate satellite feed independent of its own over-the-air broadcasts... The cable network was renamed WGN Superstation and later WGN America in 2008... That network was relaunched as NewsNation in 2021... Both WGN and NewsNation are owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group...
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