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Anchorage AK (and nearby areas) 2/9/1997

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From the Anchorage Daily News. Five areas were listed - Anchorage, the valley, Kenai/Soldotna, Seward, and Homer. The lineups vary among the different areas.

Anchorage-Prime Cable
1 ESPN
2 KTUU (NBC)
3 Program Guide
4 KTBY (FOX)
5 KYES (UPN/WB)
6 USA
7 KAKM (PBS)
8 CNN
9 Headline News
10 TNT
11 KTVA (CBS)
12 A&E
13 KIMO (ABC)
14 History Channel
15 TLC
16 Discovery Channel
17 Lifetime
18 Nickelodeon
19 Family Channel
20 TV-20 Christian TV
21 The Disney Channel
22 Cartoon Network
23 Sci-Fi Channel
24 HGTV
25 E!
26 AMC
27 Outdoor Life Network
28 ESPN2
29 Fox Sports Northwest
30 Comedy Central
31 WGN Superstation (WB)
32 TBS
33 KDMD (HSN)
34 BET
35 CMT
36 TNN
37 VH1
38 MTV
39 The Weather Channel
40 Prime Alaska / Fit TV
41 Credo (religious)
42 Anchorage Telecampus (courses from the University of Alaska-Anchorage)
43 Cable Classroom (operated by the Anchorage School District)
44 Community Television
45 C-SPAN
46 QVC
47 CNBC
48 MSNBC
49 Univision
50 Metro-1 (leased access)
51 HBO
52 HBO-2
53 Showtime
54 Showtime-2
55 Cinemax
56 The Movie Channel
57-60 Prime Home Theatre PPV (albeit, ch. 60 was Action PPV)
61 AdulTV - adult programming, of course
62 Gavel-to-Gavel - Alaska Legislature
71 FX

Rogers Cablesystem - valley towns
2 KTUU NBC
3 Program Guide
4 KTBY FOX
5 KYES WB/UPN
6 C-SPAN
7 KAKM PBS
8 TBS
9 WGN Superstation WB
10 Community Bulletin Board / Gavel-to-Gavel
11 KTVA CBS
12 KDMD HSN
13 KIMO ABC
14 Showtime-2
15 Showtime
16 Cinemax
17 Movie Channel
18 The Disney Channel
19 HBO-2
20 HBO
21-22 Request PPV
23 CNN
24 Discovery Channel
25 A&E
26 Headline News
27 CNBC
28 Lifetime
29 TNT
30 USA Network
31 CMT
32 TLC
33 ESPN
34 Nickelodeon
35 The Family Channel
36 Sci-Fi Channel
37 AMC
38 TNN
39 MTV
40 MSNBC
41 FX
42 Home Shopping Club

Kenai/Sodoltna - Prime Cable
2 KTUU NBC
3 Sci-Fi Channel
4 KTBY FOX
5 KYES UPN/WB
6 USA Network
7 KAKM PBS
8 CNN
9 Headline News
10 TNT
11 KTVA CBS
12 Program Guide
13 KIMO ABC
14 CNBC
15 A&E
16 Discovery Channel
17 Lifetime
18 Nickelodeon
19 Community Bulletin Board / Gavel-to-Gavel
20 The Family Channel
21 Showtime-2
22 Showtime
23 Cartoon Network
24 HBO2
25 HBO
26 The Disney Channel
27 TLC
28 Cinemax
29 TBS
30 WGN Superstation WB
31 ESPN
32 ESPN2
33 Fox Sports Northwest
34 Comedy Central
35 QVC
36 CMT
37 TNN
38 VH1
39 MTV

Seward Cablevision
2 Alaska One (PBS)
3 ARCS - Alaska Rural Communications Service, this was originally called the Alaska Satellite TV Project, and this is how rural communities in the Bush receive television.
4 C-SPAN
5 Foxnet
6 TBS
7 WGN Superstation WB
8 KCNC Denver CO CBS
9 KIMO ABC (via translator?)
10 KUSA Denver CO NBC
11 ESPN
12 CNN
13 USA Network
14 Showtime
15 The Movie Channel
16 HBO
17 HBO2
18 Cinemax
19 QVC
20 Mind Extension University
21 Community Bulletin Board
22 Disney Channel
23 E!
24 Inspirational Network
25 MTV
26 Headline News
27 The Weather Channel
28 Comedy Central
29 TNN
30 Lifetime
31 CMT
32 VH1
33 A&E
34 Nickelodeon
35 CNBC
36 The Family Channel
37 Fox Sports Northwest
38 TNT
39 Discovery Channel
40 TLC
41 Sci-Fi Channel
42 Cartoon Network
43 MSNBC
44 History Channel
45 ESPN2
46 Gavel-to-Gavel

Homer Cablevision
2 KYES WB/UPN
3 Community Channel
4 KTVA CBS
5 KTBY FOX
6 Community Bulletin
7 KAKM PBS
8 C-SPAN
9 TBS
10 CNN
11 ESPN
12 Discovery Channel
13 TNT
14 HBO2
15 HBO
16 Cinemax
17 Showtime
18 The Movie Channel
19 KUSA Denver NBC
20 KIMO ABC (But it also shows KOMO Seattle on this channel, obviously via C-Band. So I'm not sure which one they got.)
21 KCNC Denver CBS (But it also shows Foxnet...so it was either one of these)
22 The Disney Channel
23 Gavel-to-Gavel
24 USA
25 Nickelodeon
26 The Family Channel
27 AMC
28 Lifetime
29 VH1
30 A&E
31 Headline News
32 Bravo
33 TNN
34 MTV
35 The Weather Channel
36 TLC
37 Fox Sports Northwest
38 TBN
39 CNBC
40 MSNBC
41 History Channel
42 Sci-Fi Channel
43 Comedy Central
44 Cartoon Network
 
The first three cable systems didn't carry any Lower 48 independent superstations other than WGN and TBS. I think by this point, they were both really cable channels, not the WGN Chicago or WTBS Atlanta you'd see over the air in those cities. They didn't offer KTLA Los Angeles or KWGN Denver, two of the popular Western superstations.

Then you have Seward Cablevision which doesn't offer any commercial TV stations from Alaska. It gets CBS, NBC and KWGN from Denver. (What is KIMO, the ABC affiliate? Denver's ABC station is KMGH, previously KLZ-TV.) From Alaska, Seward only offers Alaska PBS and an Alaskan rural service. No stations from Anchorage, Fairbanks or Juneau.

And if you're getting several stations via satellite from Denver, how about the Denver PBS station, KRMA? If that's not available, why not another PBS station that's on satellite? KCTS Seattle and WTVS Detroit are seen all over Canada via satellite.
 
KIMO is now KYUR, the ABC affiliate in Anchorage. Seward was 77 miles from Anchorage. There may have been mountain blockage, thus the Denver stations 2 hours ahead of AKST (pulled in via the dish). Strangely, according to the TV Factbook (worldradiohistory.com), KTUU had a translator in Seward, but the cable didn't pull it in. They had an ARCS/RATNET translator on channel 3 analog, which is what was carried on cable 3 as well.
And Seward got *WGN*, not KWGN.
 
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