Buffalo/Niagara Frontier, NY (August 19, 1984)

[Bluenoser]

from Buffalo News via Newspapers.com

INTERNATIONAL CABLE
2 CFTO-CTV Toronto
3 WGRZ-NBC Buffalo
4 WNED-PBS Buffalo
5 HBO
6 WIVB-CBS Buffalo
7 CNN
8 WKBW-ABC Buffalo
9 WOR New York
10 Local Origination
11 CHCH Hamilton
12 WUTV Buffalo
13 CFTO-CTV Toronto
14 Disney Channel
15 Lifetime
16 Nickelodeon/ARTS
17 C-SPAN/CBN
18 EWTN
19 Cinemax
20 Premiere Films/Highlife (PPV)
21 The Movie Channel
22 ESPN
23 USA Network
24 Playboy Channel
26 MTV
27 TNN
28 Program Guide

CABLESCOPE
2 CFTO-CTV Toronto
3 WGRZ-NBC Buffalo
4 WNED-PBS Buffalo
5 The Movie Channel
6 WIVB-CBS Buffalo
7 CNN
8 WKBW-ABC Buffalo
9 WUTV Buffalo
10 Local Origination
11 WPIX New York
12 ESPN
13 CBLT-CBC Toronto
14 WTBS Atlanta
15 WOR New York
16 CICA-TVO Toronto
17 C-SPAN
18 WSBK Boston
19 USA Network
20 Nickelodeon/BET
22 CNN Headline News
24 MTV
25 Showtime
26 HBO
27 Playboy Channel
28 SIN
29 Disney Channel
30 Galavision
31 Lifetime
33 ARTS
34 CBN
35 Weather Channel
36 Program Guide

JONES INTERCABLE
2 CFTO-CTV Toronto
3 WGRZ-NBC Buffalo/CNN Headline News
4 WNED-PBS Buffalo
5 HBO
6 WIVB-CBS Buffalo
7 CHCH Hamilton
8 WKBW-ABC Buffalo
9 WOR New York
10 Local Origination
11 WPIX New York
12 WUTV Buffalo
13 CBLT-CBC Toronto
15 USA Network/C-SPAN
17 Nickelodeon/ARTS
18 The Movie Channel
20 Showtime
21 CNN
22 CBN
23 ESPN
24 Lifetime
26 ACSN/Playboy Channel
27 WTBS Atlanta
28 MTV
29 Cinemax

NIAGARA FRONTIER CABLE
2 WGRZ-NBC Buffalo
3 Local Origination
4 WIVB-CBS Buffalo
5 HBO
6 CBLT-CBC Toronto
7 WKBW-ABC Buffalo
8 WNED-PBS Buffalo
9 CFTO-CTV Toronto
10 WOR New York
11 CHCH Hamilton
12 WUTV Buffalo/WPIX New York
15 Cinemax
16 The Movie Channel
17 Playboy Channel
18 MTV
19 ACSN
20 Nickelodeon/ARTS
21 USA Network
22 ESPN
23 CNN
24 Lifetime

ISLAND CABLE
2 CFTO-CTV Toronto
3 WGRZ-NBC Buffalo
4 WNED-PBS Buffalo
5 HBO
6 WiVB-CBS Buffalo
7 ESPN
8 WKBW-ABC Buffalo
9 WOR New York
10 Local Origination
11 CHCH Hamilton
12 WUTV Buffalo
13 CBLT-CBC Toronto
14 USA Network
16 CNN
18 MTV
20 Playboy Channel
22 The Movie Channel
23 Cinemax
25 WPIX New York
30 Nickelodeon/ARTS
31 ACSN
33 CBN
34 CNN Headline News
35 WTBS Atlanta
36 Lifetime

 

[Prescott Joe]

There were other broadcast stations available in W.N.Y. at the time such as
CBLFT Tv25, among others. Not sure why they weren't carried on cable.

 

[Bluenoser]

CBLFT was listed in the Buffalo edition of TV Guide, but wasn't listed in the News.

 

[fybush]

CBLFT was never on Buffalo cable as far back as I can remember, but it was carried for a few years in the early 1980s on People's Cable in suburban Rochester with a snowy OTA signal. Around 1984 it was replaced with a CFMT feed with some local spots inserted by an Italian-American broadcaster. It evolved into a service called "RFIT" that now runs mostly Telemundo network programming.