Castro Valley, CA (1982)

[Bluenoser]

from 1982 Broadcasting Yearbook via www.worldradiohistory.com

A SIDE
2 KTVU Oakland
3 KRON-NBC San Francisco
4 Time/Weather
5 KDTV-SIN San Francisco
6 KICU San Jose
7 KCSM-PBS San Mateo
8 KGO-ABC San Francisco
9 KQED-PBS San Francisco
10 KPIX-CBS San Francisco
11 KNTV-ABC San Jose
12 KTSF San Francisco
13 KBHK San Francisco

B SIDE
2 KCRA-NBC Sacramento
3 Showtime
4 Castro Valley High School
5 KQEC-PBS San Francisco
6 KVIE-PBS Sacramento
7 KVOF San Francisco
8 KSBW-NBC Salinas
9 KEMO San Francisco
10 KXTV-CBS Sacramento
11 KTXL Sacramento
12 Redwood Chapel
13 KOVR-ABC Stockton

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

What does A side and B side mean back in 1982 for cable?

 

[Bluenoser]

From what I understand. some cablecos used a converter with A and B sides for channels...hopefully, someone else out there can better explain this; I'm drawing blanks on Google!

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

What does A side and B side mean back in 1982 for cable?

My thinking and my guess are to offer more channels while only offering 13 channels in total, if that makes sense.

 

[Mr Tony]

What does A side and B side mean back in 1982 for cable?

it was an A/B box that cable companies put on the back of the converter box or ran to the TV. I remember my aunt having that in Minneapolis. The cable co ran 2 lines into the house into a simple A/B box as seen below. This is when there were 36 slots (2-36) but Minneapolis had a ton of stations so 2-13 were the same (locals) on both A&B. The more common cable stations were on the "A" side and the others were on "B"