Lewiston, ME (November 18, 1978)

[Bluenoser]

from Lewiston Daily Sun

3 WLVI Boston
4 WSBK Boston
5 WABI-CBS Bangor
6 WCSH-NBC Portland
7 CHLT-TVA Sherbrooke
8 WMTW-ABC Poland Spring
10 WCBB-PBS Augusta
13 WGAN-CBS Portland

 

[lesnessmanme]

A couple additions
On Cablevison (not the Larger Cablevison company that was based in long Island, although they did operate this system years later) .

2 HBO
5 ESPN
9 CKSH Sherbrooke, Quebec Radio-Canada French
10 CBN

Lewiston Daily Sun's television listings have been outdated mostly, last fourty years, imo.

 

[Bluenoser]

Thanks for the additional info, I posted what the paper listed. CKSH is the Sherbrooke SRC station (CHLT was the affiliate before CKSH launched).

 

[KML0224]

When is ESPN from? They didn't go on the air until September 1979.

This is making me think of Continental Cablevision for Saco and Old Orchard Beach in September 1989. That pre-Syndex lineup had:

4 Boston
5 Boston
6 Portland
7 Boston
8 Poland Spring
9 Sherbrooke, Quebec
11 Durham, NH
13 Portland
26 Biddeford
38 Boston
51 Portland
56 Cambridge, MA

 

[Bluenoser]

That was from '79...must have had '78 on the brain when I typed it...the presence of Sherbrooke channels (at least as far south as Boston) was largely due to the sizable Frsnco-American populations in those areas (and IIRC Quebecois tourists flocking to Old Orchard and Saco).

 

[lesnessmanme]

Oops, I was a year off with the satellite channels (September 1980)
However, the cable system did have both CKSH and CHLT from Sherbrooke for many years, into the 2000's.
They pulled them off a couple times (briefly), over the years; but the Franco-American community was upset.

 

[Bluenoser]

And another fun fact about Tele-7...the station's long-running Soiree Canadienne, which featured traditional Quebecois folkloric music, ran on WMUR Manchester in an early Saturday night slot in the mid 70s.