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Classic Cable TV Line-Up Dimensions Cable Merden/Southington Connecticut 4/1/1987

MarcB

MarcB

Here is Dimensions Cable TV Line Up for Southington/Meriden Connecticut. It went into effect on April 1st, 1987.

Source: Southington Observer 3/26/1987 Page 10.

2 USA
3 CNN
4 WVIT 30/NBC
5 WEDH 24/PBS
6 WTIC-TV 61/IND
7 WFSB 3/CBS
8 Nickelodeon *NEW*
9 WTXX 20/IND
10 WTNH 8/ABC
11 ESPN
12 Educational Access (7AM-2PM)/WXTV 41/SIN (2PM-7AM)
13 Arts & Entertainment *NEW*
14 WSBK 38/IND
15 SHOWTIME *PREMIUM*
16 WOR 9/IND
17 WPIX 11/IND
18 WHCT 18/IND
19 Discovery Channel *NEW*
20 Lifetime
21 WNYW 5/IND *RETURN*
22 The Nashville Network
23 Cable Value Network *NEW*
24 VH-1 (2AM-6PM)/Sports Channel (6PM-2AM) *NEW*
25 CBN
26 MTV
27 WGBY PBS/57
28 WNBC NBC/4
29 WGGB ABC/40
30 WCBS CBS/2
31 Public Access/CSPAN
32 Electronic Program Guide (330PM-Midnight)/Religious Programming (Midnight-11AM/Community College Instructional TV (11AM-330PM)
33 HBO *PREMIUM*
34 DISNEY Channel *PREMIUM*
35 ?????? *PREMIUM* I can't read it. When the Souhthinton Library Scanned in the Paper it came out illegible. Perahps it's Movie Chanel because in the description it says 24 hour Movies.
36 Cinemax *PREMIUM* *NEW*

REMOVED WWLP 22/NBC and WABC 7/ABC
 
Before networks got greedy regarding more than one affiliate on a cable system (and when affiliates pre-empted network programming on a regular basis!)
 
And STILL no WTBS! Dimension (later Cox) must have been the last major cable system in the Northeast to add it. I remember being really ticked off about it at the time.
 
As COX they did not add NESN - New England Sports Network until 04 or 05. As a Bruins fan that really ticked me off. Even though they had lots of requests for it COX claimed there wasn't enough REDSOX fans to warrant them carrying NESN.

As COX they did not add SNY - Sports Net New York until they picked up UCONN Football a few years back. Again they said there weren't enough METS fans to warrant them carrying NESN. I don't know how many METS fans are around, but what I do know is that back in 88 or 89 little 2500 watt AM 990 in Southington carried some games on the radio. This year is the first time that there's been a Fulltime METS radio affiliate in Connecticut. Clear Channel's ESPN Radio 1300 in New Haven picked up the games this year from sister station 710 WOR. Clear Channel sent the Yankees from ESPN 1300 to their more powerful sister station WELI 960. A few years back WLIS/WMRD in the CT River Valley/Shoreline carried select weekend METS games.
 
The Mets never really needed a Connecticut affiliate when they were on the 660 blowtorch. 710 is a lot weaker over most of the state, so getting a New Haven affiliate is a good idea. I remember Mets fans coming out of the woodwork during their '80s glory years, but I doubt many of them are still following the team, especially outside of lower Fairfield County.
 
When I lived in Bloomsburg PA from 1987-1993, that was one channel missing from the cable - WTBS. Bloomsburg didn't get it until around 1995 or so, IIRC..
 
CTListener said:
And STILL no WTBS! Dimension (later Cox) must have been the last major cable system in the Northeast to add it. I remember being really ticked off about it at the time.
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The old Continental Cablevision of Saco and Old Orchard Beach, ME still didn't carry it in July of 1990 either. Here in New Britain, CT (which the above Southington borders), we had United Cable for much of the 1980s. I don't know what was carried for out-of-market in 1987 besides WWOR, WPIX, WSBK and WGBY, since I was living in southern Maine at the time. I think WNYW was on the lineup until 1986, but was soon dropped when they became a charter FOX affiliate.

Of course SYNDEX messed up everything in 1990. It's what led to WPIX being removed from the United Artists Cable lineup on Sunday, July 1, 1990. Our replacement? In-market WTWS-TV (IND) channel 26 of New London [WHPX-TV (ION) today]. Then WB and UPN killed off even more out-of-market stations. WWOR's Eastern Microwave (EMI) Service was gone by the late 1990s and WSBK was absent except for an occasional Red Sox or Bruins game.

To this day, I think Meriden receives WPIX, but probably only because they're in New Haven County. WGBY is the only non-market station which Comcast of New Britain carries.
 
KML-224 said:
To this day, I think Meriden receives WPIX, but probably only because they're in New Haven County. WGBY is the only non-market station which Comcast of New Britain carries.
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We lost WPIX a few years ago. Apparently COX was getting WPIX from Cablevision and when Cablevision and Tribune went into dispute and WPIX was removed from Cablevision we lost it too. For a few days on Channel 22 (WPIX's position on COX Cable) there was a message from COX Cable that WPIX was off the air and they were working hard to restore it. As the Cablevision and Tribune dispute went on the message on Channel 22 changed. Effective such and such date (The first day COX lost WPIX) COX Cable has decided to remove WPIX from our channel line-up. Most CW Programming and METS games can be found on WCCT-TV on Channel 11.
 
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