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Old Cable Lineups from Missouri

Johnson County, Kansas had Telecable and Kansas City, Missouri had American Cablevision, but what about Landmark Cable in Independence, Missouri or Six-Star Cablevision in Grandview?
 
Nutball said:
Johnson County, Kansas had Telecable and Kansas City, Missouri had American Cablevision, but what about Landmark Cable in Independence, Missouri or Six-Star Cablevision in Grandview?
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I think by the time I was in Kansas City, Independence had Comcast.

Edit and correction: Jones Intercable bought Landmark Cable in 1986. Landmark also had the franchise for Olathe, Kansas.
 
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Nutball said:
When I last lived in Kansas City in 1996, Kansas City still had American Cablevision and Independence had Jones Intercable.
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Yes, I corrected my previous post. I had thought Comcast was somewhere in the Kansas City area but I haven't been able to confirm that from archives.
 
Nutball said:
When I last lived in Kansas City in 1996, Kansas City still had American Cablevision and Independence had Jones Intercable.
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It turns out that Comcast bought out Jones Intercable in 1998 and closed the deal in 1999. That was after my time in KC.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
they kept WGN for the upgraded areas, but that was also when they had to cut back on the Bulls on the superstation
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In 1996, only Gladstone and a couple of areas had been upgraded. The rollout of the upgrade wasn't complete until 1998.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
the TeleCable system (later TCI) was dual sided until it was upgraded when Time Warner Cable took over
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The TeleCable system required running two coaxial lines to each household, with a Zenith A-B switch or converter being provided at the set top. Theoretically, that doubled the capacity of the system, but some channels, especially OTA channels, were duplicated on both the A and B lines.
 
Mark Roberts said:
The TeleCable system required running two coaxial lines to each household, with a Zenith A-B switch or converter being provided at the set top. Theoretically, that doubled the capacity of the system, but some channels, especially OTA channels, were duplicated on both the A and B lines.
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Thanks for reminding me about this. We had a converter box for maybe a year or two and then got an A-B switch. I think it had two plastic buttons and you’d press down one or the other to get extra channels, right?
 
nomadcowatbk said:
was KSHB blacked out during Fox programming?
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No, it was the only Fox affiliate on the system. KRCG-TV in Jefferson City had a secondary Fox affiliation but carried relatively few Fox programs, and there was never a conflict between KRCG and KSHB.

When KSHB changed to NBC affiliation in September 1994, KSHB was dropped from the Columbia system and replaced by the "FOXNET" service. I don't know what happened in Moberly or Jefferson City, which also used the cross-state CARS-band relay system to import non-local channels.
 
radiofan2023 said:
Thanks for reminding me about this. We had a converter box for maybe a year or two and then got an A-B switch. I think it had two plastic buttons and you’d press down one or the other to get extra channels, right?
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I only ever saw the converter boxes; the A-B switch arrangement sounds like something one would get at Radio Shack.
 
Mark Roberts said:
I only ever saw the converter boxes; the A-B switch arrangement sounds like something one would get at Radio Shack.
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I think Telecable might have rented them, but my dad might have gotten ours somewhere else. I remember my brother and I loved pushing down the opposite button when the other one was watching TV, to torment each other…. :)
 
Mark Roberts said:
No, it was the only Fox affiliate on the system. KRCG-TV in Jefferson City had a secondary Fox affiliation but carried relatively few Fox programs, and there was never a conflict between KRCG and KSHB.

When KSHB changed to NBC affiliation in September 1994, KSHB was dropped from the Columbia system and replaced by the "FOXNET" service. I don't know what happened in Moberly or Jefferson City, which also used the cross-state CARS-band relay system to import non-local channels.
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what station picked up the Fox NFC package?
 
The Clinton Daily Democrat, Friday 2 January 1986
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Clinton, Mo.
2 Home Box Office
3 KYTV (NBC 3 Springfield)
4 WDAF (NBC 4 Kansas City)
5 KCTV (CBS 5 Kansas City)
6 KMOS (PBS 6 Sedalia)
7 WGN America
8 KSHB (FOX 41 Kansas City)
9 KMBC (ABC 9 Kansas City)
10 KOLR (CBS 10 Springfield)
11 Cable News Network
12 Turner Broadcasting Service
13 CBN Family Channel

Windsor, Mo.
2 WDAF (NBC 4 Kansas City)
3 KYTV (NBC 3 Springfield)
4 The Movie Channel
5 KCTV (CBS 5 Kansas City)
6 KMOS (PBS 6 Sedalia)
7 Nickelodeon
8 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
9 KMBC (ABC 9 Kansas City)
10 KOLR (CBS 10 Springfield)
11 KSHB (Ind. 41 Kansas City)
12 Turner Broadcasting Service
13 KMIZ (ABC 17 Columbia)
H The Disney Channel
I Showtime

Warsaw, Mo.
2 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
3 KYTV (NBC 3 Springfield)
4 The Movie Channel
5 KCTV (CBS 5 Kansas City)
6 KMOS (PBS 6 Sedalia)
7 KCBJ (ABC 17 Columbia)
8 KOMU (NBC 8 Columbia)
9 KMBC (ABC 9 Kansas City)
10 KOLR (CBS 10 Springfield)
11 KSHB (Ind. 41 Kansas City)
12 Turner Broadcasting Service
13 WDAF (NBC 4 Kansas City)
H The Disney Channel
I Showtime

Osceola, Mo.
2 Local Access
3 KYTV (NBC 3 Springfield)
4 WDAF (NBC 4 Kansas City)
5 KMTC (ABC 27 Springfield)
6 KMOS (PBS 6 Sedalia)
7 KOAM (CBS 7 Pittsburg)
8 Turner Broadcasting Service
9 KMBC (ABC 9 Kansas City)
10 KOLR (CBS 10 Springfield)
11 KSHB (Ind. 41 Kansas City)
12 KYFC (Chr. 50 Kansas City)
13 Cable News Network
 
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