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Cable channel lineup oddities

Eagle Communications, Brule NE (note this system is SD only and 35 channels) ;)

2 NBC - KNOP (North Platte)
3 CW - KWGN (Denver)
4 ABC - KMGH (Denver)
5 Disney Channel
6 TBS
7 HBO
8 Freeform

9 PBS - KPNE - NET 1
10 CBS - KCNC (Denver)
12 ESPN
13 Great American Country
 
Eagle Comm, Big Springs, NE (another 40 channel SD only lineup)

2 NBC - KNOP (North Platte)
3 TBS
4 FOX - KDVR (Denver)
5 HBO
6 PBS - KPNE (North Platte)
7 CBS - KCNC (Denver)
8 Freeform
9 ABC - KMGH (Denver)
11 CW - KWGN (Denver)
12 CNN
13 Spike
 
Eagle, Bird Springs, KS

2 Showtime
3 PBS - KWKS - Smoky Hills Public TV
4 NBC - KUSA (Denver)
5 CW - KWGN (Denver)
6 ABC - KLBY (Colby)
7 CBS - KCNC (Denver)
8 NBC - KSNK (Oberlin)
9 FOX - KSAS (Wichita)
10 Eagle Community Channel
11 ABC - KMGH (Denver)
12 CBS - KBSH (Hays)
13 National Geographic
 
Albion, Cedar Rapids, Central City, Fullerton, Genoa, Rural Marquette, Monroe, Newman Grove, Osceola, Palmer, Polk, Rising City, St. Edward, Shelby, Silver Creek, Spalding, & Stromsburg, Nebraska

2 POP
4 HSN
5 NBC - KSNB (Hastings)
6 TBS
7 FOX - KFXL (Lincoln)
8 Eagle Community TV
9 PBS - KHNE (Hastings)
10 MeTV - KOLN (Lincoln)
11CBS - KOLN (Lincoln)
12 QVC
13 ABC - KHGI (Kearney, Hastings, Grand Island)


http://djeagle.s3.amazonaws.com/media/guides/CentralCity-WEB-6-15-16.pdf
 
VERY unique one here
Schuyler, Nebraska

2 HSN
4 FOX - KPTM (Omaha)
5 QVC
6 NBC - WOWT (Omaha)
7 Grit TV - KLKN (Lincoln)
8 ABC - KETV (Omaha)
9 TBS
10 CBS - KOLN (Lincoln)
11 Telemundo
12 Uni Mas
13 Univision


Galavision is on 14 BTW

edit: found out the reasoning....from wiki
As of the census of 2010, there were 6,211 people........Hispanic or Latino of any race were 65.4% of the population.
 
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Eagle Cable, Riley, KS (another 50 channel SD only setup)

2 FOX - KTMJ (Topeka)
3 Freeform
4 ESPN2
5 NBC - KSNT (Topeka)
6 ESPN
7 QVC
8 ABC - KTKA (Topeka)
9 Discovery
10 TBS
11 PBS - KTWU (Topeka)
12 USA
13 CBS - WIBW (Topeka)
 
OK...Nat Geo on ch 13 in Bird Springs? Very odd channel placement. USA, TBS, CNN is very rare on 2-13, but that might be one of a kind.
And I didn't know there was other systems that had Discovery in the 2-13 range...I always thought the only ones were Comcast Seattle (ch 8) and Comcast Portland/Eugene (ch 7). On Comcast, Discovery is IN the Lifeline/Limited Basic service!
 
OK...Nat Geo on ch 13 in Bird Springs? Very odd channel placement. USA, TBS, CNN is very rare on 2-13, but that might be one of a kind.

I wouldnt call CNN or TBS in the 2-13 area rare. I brought back up this thread mentioning that in Minneapolis CNN is on 3 and TBS is on 7
 
Lone Pine Inc. TV; Lone Pine, CA (south of Bishop, eastern Sierra). They have gotten Los Angeles TV on cable ever since it was first wired in...
2 KCBS Los Angeles (CBS)
3 *HLN*
4 KNBC Los Angeles (NBC)
5 KTLA Los Angeles (CW)
6 *Travel Channel*
7 KABC Los Angeles (ABC)
8 *Lifetime*
9 KCAL Los Angeles (IND)
10 KOCE Huntington Beach (PBS)
11 KTTV Los Angeles (Fox)
12 Zap2It Program Guide
13 KCOP Los Angeles (My)

Fort Bragg, CA - Comcast. Another Comcast that has Discovery Channel in the 2-13 range.
2 KTVU San Francisco (Fox)
3 Government Access
4 KNTV San Francisco (NBC)
5 KPIX San Francisco (CBS)
6 KGO San Francisco (ABC)
7 *Discovery Channel*
8 *Comedy Central*
9 KQED San Francisco (PBS)
10 KEMO Santa Rosa (Azteca America - used to be an indie, KFTY)
11 *ESPN*
12 *TNT*
13 C-SPAN

Just one cable channel on 2-13 on the CalNev Broadband system in Winnemucca, NV: HBO on ch 5. Rest of it is a mix of network affiliates from Reno and SLC, plus one local origination channel on 7 and the national ION feed on 12.
In Forrest City, AR, the Independence County Cable TV company has WGN America on ch 9 and Spike on ch 12. Rest of it is network stations from Memphis, Jonesboro and KTHV Little Rock on 11.
 
Runestone Cable - Elbow Lake, Barrett , Lowry, Wendell, Cyrus, Hoffman, Norcross, Donnelly, Kensington and Tintah, MN

2 C-Span
3 WUCW (CW)
4 WFTC (MY)
5 KSAX (ABC)
6 Local Access
7 KCCO (CBS)
8 RFD-TV
9 KMSP (FOX9)
10 KWCM (PBS)
11 KARE (NBC)
12 KSTC
13 KVLY (NBC)

The area is very rural so I can understand having RFDTV in lifeline. My uncle lives in Elbow Lake.
 
Karban TV Systems, Land O'Lakes WI (up in the north country near the UP MI border) - Is this the most cable networks on 2-13 in America today?
2 *HBO*
3 *TBS*
4 *Discovery*
5 *WGN America*
6 *Cinemax*
7 WSAW Wausau (CBS)
8 WLEF Park Falls (PBS/WPT)
9 WAOW Wausau (ABC)
10 *Freeform*
11 *ESPN*
12 WJFW Rhinelander (NBC)
13 *CNN*
You may ask, where's Fox? There's NO Fox station on the system! I suppose they were Foxnet up to the end. I wonder if they actually carried WFXS, and lost it when they went silent, as Gray moved Fox to a low power digital station.

Cable America, Eagle Harbor MI (in the UP north of Houghton). Odd choice for networks.
2 WWJ Detroit (CBS)...450 miles away. HUH?
3 *Nickelodeon*
4 WDIV Detroit (NBC)
5 WLUC-DT2 Marquette (Fox) - now this is much closer than Detroit...
6 WLUC Marquette (NBC)
8 WXYZ Detroit (ABC)...not on 7?
9 *WGN America*
10 WBKP Calumet (CW)
11 *ESPN*
12 QVC
13 *The Weather Channel*

Crane TX - Suddenlink
2 KMID Midland (ABC)
3 Community Bulletin Board
4 KPEJ Odessa (Fox)
5 *HBO*
6 *Showtime*
7 KOSA Odessa (CBS)
8 KUPB Midland (UNI)
9 KWES Midland (NBC)
10 Educational Access
11 *The Weather Channel*
13 KPBT Odessa (PBS)
 
Karban TV Systems, Land O'Lakes WI (up in the north country near the UP MI border) - Is this the most cable networks on 2-13 in America today?
2 *HBO*
3 *TBS*
4 *Discovery*
5 *WGN America*
6 *Cinemax*
7 WSAW Wausau (CBS)
8 WLEF Park Falls (PBS/WPT)
9 WAOW Wausau (ABC)
10 *Freeform*
11 *ESPN*
12 WJFW Rhinelander (NBC)
13 *CNN*
You may ask, where's Fox? There's NO Fox station on the system! I suppose they were Foxnet up to the end. I wonder if they actually carried WFXS, and lost it when they went silent, as Gray moved Fox to a low power digital station.
Channel 23 per their listings says WZAW 7.3 which means they are getting it from WSAW so its SD only
https://www.ktvs.net/pdf/land-o-lakes.pdf
 
Cable America, Eagle Harbor MI (in the UP north of Houghton). Odd choice for networks.
2 WWJ Detroit (CBS)...450 miles away. HUH?
3 *Nickelodeon*
4 WDIV Detroit (NBC)
5 WLUC-DT2 Marquette (Fox) - now this is much closer than Detroit...
6 WLUC Marquette (NBC)
8 WXYZ Detroit (ABC)...not on 7?
9 *WGN America*
10 WBKP Calumet (CW)
11 *ESPN*
12 QVC
13 *The Weather Channel*
per zap2it they do carry CBS Marquette on 40, PBS on 38 (although zap2it is goofy...they list the CW in 3 spots)

anywho the Detroit networks are on what they call CANCOM (now called Shaw Communications). Thats what most cable companies in Canada use for the US Nets (Detroit or Buffalo in the East, Seattle or Spokane in the West). Shaw provides the feeds for them. They also carry Minneapolis for Thunder Bay and Winnipeg on their satellites. So I'm sure the podunk cable realized it was easier to use CANCOM than try to get signals from Marquette. But what I dont get is they dont carry ABC from Marquette....even though its a subchannel on the CW affiliate near Houghton (Calumet) whihc is the only station OTA.
Heck they even carry CKPR from Thunder Bay!!
 
Looking through the Wayback machine the old channel listings just say Fox so unknown what affiliate. It has always been on channel 23 in listings

I remember the Equity owned stations on free-to-air including WMQF :)
 
Windbreak Cable Harrison NE
2 KWGN (CW Denver)
3 CNN
4 KNEP (ABC Scottsbluff)
5 USA
6 Freeform
7 KUSA (NBC Denver)
8 Inspiration Network
9 Hallmark
10 KCNC (CBS Denver)
11 Discovery
12 TBS Superstation
13 KTNE (PBS Nebraska)
 
Considering the cable system is only 25 channels you are bound to have cable channels within the 2-13 area.

And as noted elsewhere in a different thread Channel 8 is Me-TV now
 
Comcast, Madison FL
2 *WGN America*
3 HSN
4 Educational Access
5 WFSU Tallahassee (PBS)
6 WTLF Tallahassee (CW)
7 WTXL Tallahassee (ABC)
8 *ESPN*
9 WCTV Tallahassee (CBS)
10 WTWC-DT2 Tallahasee (Fox)
11 QVC
12 WTWC Tallahassee (NBC)
13 Government Access

Alliance Communications Network, Richton MS
2 *HBO*
3 WLOX Biloxi (ABC)
4 WDAM Laurel-Hattiesburg (NBC)
5 WHLT Hattiesburg (CBS)
6 *Cinemax*
7 QVC
8 *WGN America*
9 WMAH Biloxi (PBS/MPB)
10 TBN
11 *CNN*
12 *The Weather Channel*
13 WHPM-LD Hattiesburg (Fox)

Suddenlink, St. Joseph LA
2 Community Bulletin Board
3 WLBT Jackson (NBC)
4 C-SPAN
5 KARD West Monroe (Fox)
6 HSN
7 TBN
8 KNOE Monroe (CBS)
9 *National Geographic*
10 *Animal Planet*
11 KNOE-DT2 Monroe (ABC, ex-KAQY)
12 WJTV Jackson (CBS)
13 KLTM Monroe (PBS)

Suddenlink, Heavener OK
2 KNWA Fort Smith (NBC)
3 KOET Eufaula (PBS/OETA)
4 *HBO*
5 KFSM Fort Smith (CBS)
6 *Showtime*
7 KFTA Fort Smith (Fox)
8 KTUL Tulsa (ABC)
9 *The Movie Channel*
11 KHBS Fort Smith (ABC)
12 KHBS-DT2 Fort Smith (CW Plus)
13 KAFT Fayetteville (PBS/AETN)
 
Charter Brainerd/Aitkin/Crosby/Ironton MN

2 KAWB (PBS)
4 KCCW (CBS)
5 KSAX (ABC)
7 QVC
8 WGN
9 KMSP (FOX)
10 WFTC (MY)
11 KARE (NBC)
12 ID (Investigation Discovery)<--not part of basic
13 KPXM (ION)

By the way the other Minneapolis locals are at 17 (KSTC Independent), 19 (WUMN Univision) and 23 (WUCW CW)
 
OK...that one might be one of a kind. Instead of having something semi-common like TBS or CNN at ch 12, they put in Investigation Discovery? That is very odd. Does Charter think Brainerd residents need a little bit of "Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry," "Fear Thy Neighbor" and "Fatal Vows" very low on the dial? Wonder what the crime rate is for that part of MN...
 
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