Allentown, PA (July 18, 1982)

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from The Morning Call via Newspapers.com

SERVICE ELECTRIC
2 TV2/WNEP-ABC Scranton/WBRE-NBC Wilkes-Barre/WCBS-CBS New York
3 KYW-NBC Philadelphia
4 WPHL Philadelphia
5 WNEW New York
6 WPVI-ABC Philadelphia
7 WKBS Philadelphia/WABC-ABC New York
8 WFMZ Allentown/WDAU-CBS Scranton/WBRE-NBC Wilkes-Barre/WNBC-NBC New York
9 WOR New York
10 WCAU-CBS Philadelphia
11 WPIX New York
12 WLVT-PBS Bethlehem/WCBS-CBS New York/WABC-ABC New York/Time & Weather
13 WTAF Philadelphia/WABC-ABC New York
15 CNN
16 WGN Chicago
17 WTBS Atlanta
18 ESPN
19 WABC-ABC New York/WTAF Philadelphia
20 Time & Weather/Bulletin Board
21 CBN
22 PRISM
23 HBO
24 HTN Plus
26 USA Network
27 Nickelodeon/ARTS
28 Reuters News
29 MTV

TWIN COUNTY TV
2 WPHL Philadelphiua/WCBS-CBS New York
3 KYW-NBC Philadelphia
4 WNEP-ABC Scranton/WBRE-NBC Wilkes-Barre
5 WNEW New York
6 WPVI-ABC Philadelphia
7 WFMZ Allentown
8 WLVT-PBS Bethlehem/WABC-ABC New York
9 WOR New York
10 WCAU-CBS Philadelphia
11 WPIX New York
12 WKBS Philadelphia/WNBC-NBC New York
13 WTAF Philadelphia/WDAU-CBS Scranton
17 HBO
19 MTV
21 PRISM
23 ESPN
25 CNN
27 Gayety (adult channel)
29 The Movie Channel
31 WABC-ABC New York
32 USA Network
33 WTBS Atlanta
34 test channel
35 Dow Jones Business News
36 CNN Headline News
40 WTVE Reading
41 WGN Chicago
42 WBRE-NBC Wilkes-Barre

 

[IM42A]

That's a lot of switching back and forth between different TV stations on shared channels. Keeping track of what was going to be on each of those channels at any given time seems like it would have been next to impossible.

I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Allentown around that time, and I remember there being SWB, Philadelphia, and NYC stations, but how it broke out, I don't remember. I was busy that weekend and didn't spend that much time in the room watching TV.