Ellensburg, WA (August 23, 1996)

[ftballfan]

Source: Ellensburg Daily Record

2 – Ellensburg Community Television
3 – KOMO (ABC 4 Seattle)
4 – KNDO (NBC 23 Yakima)
5 – KING (NBC 5 Seattle)
6 – KIMA (CBS 29 Yakima)
8 – KAPP (ABC 35 Yakima)
9 – KCYU (FOX 68 Yakima)
10 – Daily Record TV-10
11 – KSTW (CBS 11 Tacoma) [during that odd period that KIRO dropped CBS for UPN before reverting to CBS in 1997]
12 – TBS SuperStation
13 – KYVE (PBS 47 Yakima)
14 – Disney Channel
15 – Cinemax
16 – Showtime
17 – HBO
18 – Pay-Per-View
19 – HSN
20 – Odyssey
21 – C-SPAN
22 – KCTS (PBS 9 Seattle)
23 – MTV
24 – Nickelodeon
25 – Prime Sports Northwest
26 – Headline News
27 – Lifetime
28 – ESPN
29 – CNN
30 – A&E Network
31 – Discovery Channel
32 – USA Network
33 – Family Channel
34 – VH1
35 – TNT
36 – The Nashville Network

 

[crainbebo]

3 (4), 5 and 11 Seattle were all part-time feeds blacked out for SyndEx. 22 may have also been blacked out at times but I'm not sure.
As you've probably seen ch 2 was mostly TLC all day long, but they did air CWU and local events here and there.
One thing I find interesting is no AMC on this lineup. They did not add AMC until at least the millennium, when they also added TCM!
While KCPQ had a translator at that time on UHF, it was never added to the Ellensburg lineup likely so they wouldn't have to Syndex out FOX stuff due to KCYU-LP.
I think Continental Cablevision was the provider by 1996, prior to that (for MANY years) it was King VideoCable, owned by King Broadcasting Company, who owned, you guessed it, KING 5 in Seattle.

 

[ftballfan]

3 (4), 5 and 11 Seattle were all part-time feeds blacked out for SyndEx. 22 may have also been blacked out at times but I'm not sure.
As you've probably seen ch 2 was mostly TLC all day long, but they did air CWU and local events here and there.
One thing I find interesting is no AMC on this lineup. They did not add AMC until at least the millennium, when they also added TCM!
While KCPQ had a translator at that time on UHF, it was never added to the Ellensburg lineup likely so they wouldn't have to Syndex out FOX stuff due to KCYU-LP.
I think Continental Cablevision was the provider by 1996, prior to that (for MANY years) it was King VideoCable, owned by King Broadcasting Company, who owned, you guessed it, KING 5 in Seattle.

I would almost assume 22 was fully in the clear as Syndex doesn't apply to PBS members. Also, no WB or UPN (unless one of the Yakima stations had a secondary affiliation with one of them)

 

[crainbebo]

Nope, WGN was only available in Cle Elum. A couple of UPN programs were 'syndicated' to KCYU, including Voyager, during weekends. Yakima had an LPTV WB with no cable carriage, on channel 60. WB 100+ would come in around 1999 or 2000 and would also be added to Ellensburg cable.

 

[ftballfan]

Nope, WGN was only available in Cle Elum. A couple of UPN programs were 'syndicated' to KCYU, including Voyager, during weekends. Yakima had an LPTV WB with no cable carriage, on channel 60. WB 100+ would come in around 1999 or 2000 and would also be added to Ellensburg cable.

Manistee had the WB from day one, then lost it when WGN dropped the network from the Superstation feed, then got it back when the local WB 100+ affiliate expanded its cable coverage area to include Manistee. UPN was a similar situation to Ellensburg, as the local FOX affiliate (WGKI -> WFQX) carried some UPN shows out of pattern.