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Dickinson, North Dakota (June 4, 1988)

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This rural city of (then) 16,000 people had a decent cable system in the 1980s. Scott Cable Communications. Sourced from The Dickinson Press on Newspapers.com. Cable 2, 7 and 9 were blotted out as they were local channels in town.

3 KBMY Bismarck (via translator? ABC)
4 USA Network
5 KQCD Dickinson (NBC)
6 CBN
8 WGN Chicago (IND)
10 KXMA Dickinson (CBS)
11 TBS
12 CNN
13 KDSE Dickinson (PBS/Prairie Public)
14 Weather Channel
15 ESPN
16 C-Span
17 Nickelodeon
18 The Nashville Network
19 Public Access
20 A&E
21 Country Music TV
22 CNN Headline News (marked CNN II in the listings...they had gone away from that branding years prior)
23 Bulletin Board
24 Cinemax
25 Disney Channel
26 Showtime
27 Lifetime (Clustered w/ the pay cable channels?)
28 HBO
29 The Movie Channel
30 MTV
31 SPN (but I think it was Tempo by then)
32 The Learning Channel (marked ACSN/Learning Channel...)
33 EWTN
34 VH1
35 Public Access
36 QVC
37 College Public Access (Dickinson State)
38 Discovery Channel

A very sizable lineup for a small community! Even some of the bigger American cities had fewer than 25 channels available in 1988.
 
KBMY never had a translator in Dickinson, They picked it up either over the air or through microwave. In 1999 the cable company moved their facilities, and were no longer able to get a good signal, so they changed to KMGH for a while, which turned out to be a few years. Check out the Aug 20, 1999 Dickinson Press for that story. It was on the front page.
 


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