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Cable TV block scheduling

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JeremyAndrews

Do any cable companies still do this?


Back in the mid 90s when I lived in Zion, IL with U.S. Cable Of Lake County, the following were shared:

21: QVC 5AM-12AM Adam & Eve (Spice's porn sister network) 12AM-5AM
61: TBN 5AM-7PM VH1 7PM-5AM

I'm sure they had an infomercial network in there somewhere as well. Back around 1996 EVERY channel (even Nick @ Nite complete with stopping the informercials for commercial breaks) ran paid programming overnights.

after we moved in 1997, TCI then AT&T then Comcast took over. They put Travel Channel and RAI together. I think Comedy Central was paired up with Shop @ Home for a time as well.

They didn't have enough space for sporting events for The Sports Channel so they would cut off the Preview/TV Guide Channel and put The Sports Channel in its place until the game was over.


Here in Wisconsin, Time Warner puts Animal Planet on Channel 43 from 8AM-2AM. From 2AM-8AM they replace it with a feed of Access TV (Infomercial network). During BET's religious programming and daily from 3AM-8AM, they did the same with BET. Not sure about now.<P ID="signature">______________

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> Do any cable companies still do this?
>
>
> Back in the mid 90s when I lived in Zion, IL with U.S. Cable
> Of Lake County, the following were shared:
>
> 21: QVC 5AM-12AM Adam & Eve (Spice's porn sister network)
> 12AM-5AM
> 61: TBN 5AM-7PM VH1 7PM-5AM
>
> I'm sure they had an infomercial network in there somewhere
> as well. Back around 1996 EVERY channel (even Nick @ Nite
> complete with stopping the informercials for commercial
> breaks) ran paid programming overnights.
>
> after we moved in 1997, TCI then AT&T then Comcast took
> over. They put Travel Channel and RAI together. I think
> Comedy Central was paired up with Shop @ Home for a time as
> well.
>
> They didn't have enough space for sporting events for The
> Sports Channel so they would cut off the Preview/TV Guide
> Channel and put The Sports Channel in its place until the
> game was over.
>
>
> Here in Wisconsin, Time Warner puts Animal Planet on Channel
> 43 from 8AM-2AM. From 2AM-8AM they replace it with a feed of
> Access TV (Infomercial network). During BET's religious
> programming and daily from 3AM-8AM, they did the same with
> BET. Not sure about now.
>

I'm sure some still do. In 1998 I had a PBS station during the day, and the box at night. I assume that ended when MTV bought it. 2001 was the last time I saw any, when I was in florida C-span 2 was on during the day, and VH1 at night. With digtal cable now, I doubt too many excist anymore.
 
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