Jackson, MI - April 1976

[CCBInMI]

Continental/Leoni Cable
2 - WJBK (CBS 2) Detroit
3 - WKZO (CBS 3) Kalamazoo
4 - WWJ (NBC 4) Detroit
5 - WKBD (IND 50) Detroit
6 - WJIM (CBS 6) Lansing
7 - WXYZ (ABC 7) Detroit
8 - WOTV (NBC 8) Grand Rapids
9 - CBET (CBC 9) Windsor
10 - WXON (IND 20) Detroit
11 - WUHQ (ABC 41) Battle Creek
12 - WILX (NBC 10) Onondaga
13 - WKAR (PBS 23) East Lansing

Summit-Leoni Cable
2 - WJBK
3 - WKZO
4 - WTVS (PBS 56) Detroit
5 - WKBD
6 - WJIM
7 - WXYZ
8 - WXON
9 - CBET
10 - WUHQ
11 - WTOL (CBS 11) Toledo
12 - WILX
13 - WKAR

The Jackson Citizen-Patriot also carried listings for WSPD (13 NBC) and WDHO (24 ABC) Toledo and WJRT (12 ABC) Flint, which served as the Lansing market's ABC affiliate at that time.

 

[CTListener]

No cable-only programming at all. That's really CATV -- community antenna television, the original term used to describe cable TV.

 

[CCBInMI]

The 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook shows these changes in effect by likely late 1978-early 1979:

Continental (Continental/Leoni is a typo, but I'm unable to correct the error at this time): some cable-only programming had been added. WKZO and WJBK were sharing cable channel 3 and cable 2 was airing "TPS" (school access perhaps?). Also, cable 8 had government access sharing time with WOTV and cable 10 had time/weather when WXON was off the air (at the time, they didn't sign on until early afternoon IIRC).

Summit-Leoni: almost identical except WTVS had been replaced by WDIV (former WWJ).

By 1981 (according to BY '82)...
Continental: HBO was offered on cable 2, WJBK was sharing cable 3 with CBN, cable 8 was now WRHT 31 (Ind Ann Arbor), WUHQ had shifted to cable 10 (along with the time/weather service) and Nickelodeon and ESPN were sharing cable 11.
Summit-Leoni: WJBK and WTVS were sharing cable 3, WOTV had replaced WXON on cable 8, WGN had replaced WTOL on cable 11, HBO was offered on cable 2, cable 4 was local cable-only programming and community info, ESPN was on 9 and WUHQ was sharing 10 with CBN.