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Somewhere in Connecticut (November 15, 1992)

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From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQi6ET6zYU
(The city isn't mentioned anywhere, but it can be inferred it's in the Hartford, CT area or in its northern suburbs based on locals carried. Biggest surprise is no TBS)

5 - C-SPAN 2
6 - The Learning Channel
7 - NOAA Local Weather
8 - Local Access
10 - C-SPAN
11 - Travel Channel
12 - Univision
13 - National Jewish Television / Eternal Word Television Network
14 - Viewers Choice 1
15 - Request PPV
16 - Pay-Per-View Previews
17 - Disney Channel
18 - The Movie Channel
19 - SportsChannel New England
20 - Cinemax
21 - Showtime
22 - HBO
23 - WFSB (CBS 3 Hartford)
24 - WEDH (PBS 24 Hartford)
25 - WTIC (FOX 61 Hartford)
26 - WTXX (IND 20 Waterbury)
27 - WGBY (PBS 57 Springfield)
29 - WWOR (IND 9 Secaucus) [New York feed, since the EMI Service was referred to as WOR]
30 - WVIT (NBC 30 New Britain)
31 - WTNH (ABC 8 New Haven)
32 - WWLP (NBC 22 Springfield)
33 - WGGB (ABC 40 Springfield)
34 - WPIX (IND 11 New York)
35 - QVC
36 - WSBK (IND 38 Boston)
37 - The Nashville Network
38 - New England Sports Network
39 - ESPN
40 - Nickelodeon
41 - VH1
42 - MTV
43 - CNBC
44 - New England Cable News
45 - Discovery Channel
46 - USA Network
47 - CNN
48 - Headline News
49 - A&E Network
50 - Family Channel
51 - TNT
52 - Lifetime
53 - Weather Channel
 
It might be the Enfield, CT area. TBS was definitely carried by our cable in New Britain and Hartford, so it's not from us. It might have been the Connecticut portion of the Springfield Continental Cablevision franchise. I think we were United Artists Cable or TCI Cablevision by late 1992 (Comcast today). The other major provider in greater Hartford would've been Cox Communications.
 
KML-224 said:
It might be the Enfield, CT area. TBS was definitely carried by our cable in New Britain and Hartford, so it's not from us. It might have been the Connecticut portion of the Springfield Continental Cablevision franchise. I think we were United Artists Cable or TCI Cablevision by late 1992 (Comcast today). The other major provider in greater Hartford would've been Cox Communications.
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Here in Meriden, we had also TBS but, IIRC, not NESN yet. Channels 2, 3 and 4 being empty looks strange to me, too.
 
I found it very unusual to not have TBS in 1992! My hometown (Manistee, MI) had then-WTCG by early 1978, as microfilm of the local paper had ads for WTCG (and CBN) in February 1978. Manistee is also notable for being one of the few cities in Michigan that never had WKBD on cable (nearby Ludington is another)
 
The old Continental Cablevision franchise of Saco and Old Orchard Beach, ME never carried TBS either. Portland definitely carried the channel though. It helped that their cable provider was Time-Warner (Spectrum serves Portland now).
 
Phenomenal for a cable provider to omit TBS from the cable lineup that late. Back down in Yakima, even in 1983, 3 of the 4 cable lineups listed in the Yakima Herald had full time feeds of WTBS. The outlier had KSTW on channel 11 and switched to the WTBS satellite feed when they would go off in the early morning hours. Thus all viewers mostly saw from WTBS on that cable provider was the very late night movie, CNN's morning news, Funtime and a sitcom or two.
 
KML-224 said:
It might be the Enfield, CT area. TBS was definitely carried by our cable in New Britain and Hartford, so it's not from us. It might have been the Connecticut portion of the Springfield Continental Cablevision franchise. I think we were United Artists Cable or TCI Cablevision by late 1992 (Comcast today). The other major provider in greater Hartford would've been Cox Communications.
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Definitely wasn't Cox.
 
Nope! The then-TCI franchises in Hartford and Plainville (current head end is in Berlin) didn't carry Springfield channels 22 or 40 in the 1990s or later. Today, the Comcast franchise there would only carry WGBY-TV (PBS) channel 57 from Springfield.
 
KML-224 said:
Nope! The then-TCI franchises in Hartford and Plainville (current head end is in Berlin) didn't carry Springfield channels 22 or 40 in the 1990s or later. Today, the Comcast franchise there would only carry WGBY-TV (PBS) channel 57 from Springfield.
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They carried WEDH 24 so it's the Hartford area. Bolton/Vernon? That wasn't Comcast then I don't think.
 
Every cable company in Hartford County carried/carries channel 24 of Hartford. I think it has to do with cable companies carrying at least two PBS affiliates? Frontier carries PBS channel 50 (NJTV) from Montclair, NJ and WNET-TV (PBS) channel 13 of Newark/NY City. At least that's what my mother received when she lived in Berlin earlier this year. She was on the Berlin side of the Newington town line, as any mailers (offers) for TV and internet service were always from Comcast and not COX.

I might be wrong, but I think COX in Newington once carried WWLP-TV (NBC) channel 22 into the 90s. If it was ever on cable in New Britain (then United/United Artists/TCI Cablevision/AT&T Broadband...now Comcast), it was before SYNDEX And even 1989. I first saw their cable service on December 1, 1989. With a month until SYNDEX, we had WWOR, WPIX and WSBK (Boston), but only PBS from Springfield.
 
KML-224 said:
Every cable company in Hartford County carried/carries channel 24 of Hartford. I think it has to do with cable companies carrying at least two PBS affiliates? Frontier carries PBS channel 50 (NJTV) from Montclair, NJ and WNET-TV (PBS) channel 13 of Newark/NY City. At least that's what my mother received when she lived in Berlin earlier this year. She was on the Berlin side of the Newington town line, as any mailers (offers) for TV and internet service were always from Comcast and not COX.

I might be wrong, but I think COX in Newington once carried WWLP-TV (NBC) channel 22 into the 90s. If it was ever on cable in New Britain (then United/United Artists/TCI Cablevision/AT&T Broadband...now Comcast), it was before SYNDEX And even 1989. I first saw their cable service on December 1, 1989. With a month until SYNDEX, we had WWOR, WPIX and WSBK (Boston), but only PBS from Springfield.
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WEDH is Hartford, WEDN Norwich, WEDW Stamford, WEDY New Haven. So we know it's somewhere in the Hartford area.
 
Were there any stand-alone mom-and-pop cable companies serving only one small town in 1992? The single weirdest thing about this lineup is the grouping of the local signals in the 20s. I don't recall any significant cable provider doing that, ever. Bizarre!
 
KML-224 said:
Every cable company in Hartford County carried/carries channel 24 of Hartford. I think it has to do with cable companies carrying at least two PBS affiliates? Frontier carries PBS channel 50 (NJTV) from Montclair, NJ and WNET-TV (PBS) channel 13 of Newark/NY City. At least that's what my mother received when she lived in Berlin earlier this year. She was on the Berlin side of the Newington town line, as any mailers (offers) for TV and internet service were always from Comcast and not COX.

I might be wrong, but I think COX in Newington once carried WWLP-TV (NBC) channel 22 into the 90s. If it was ever on cable in New Britain (then United/United Artists/TCI Cablevision/AT&T Broadband...now Comcast), it was before SYNDEX And even 1989. I first saw their cable service on December 1, 1989. With a month until SYNDEX, we had WWOR, WPIX and WSBK (Boston), but only PBS from Springfield.
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Comcast Waterbury (which also serves towns including Wolcott and Terryville/Plymouth) only carries one PBS Station - Connecticut Public Television. I believe before they were Comcast they were something like Sammons. Definitely something with an "S" as the first letter in their name. Since Waterbury is in New Haven County they carry a couple of the NYC channels including WNBC and WPIX plus WZME/43 licensed to Bridgeport and is leased out to Jimmy Swaggart's Sonlife Bible Network.

Meanwhile COX Meriden which serves Southington, Meriden, and Cheshire now only has WZME/43 Bridgeport and WGBY/57 PBS Springfield as their only out of market stations. Neither one is carried in HD and neither's sub channels are carried. The last NYC station COX carried was WPIX/11. They dropped it several years back. Somehow COX was picking up WPIX via another cable company called Cablevision and when Cablevision and Tribune went into dispute we lost WPIX on COX as well. After 3 days or so, COX decided to drop WPIX all together.

Comcast Middletown which has been Comcast since before they were the 800 lb gorilla they are today used to carry WWLP/22 Springfield.

COX Enfield Connecticut carries WGGB/40 ABC Springfield and WGBY Springfield as the only out of market channels. They used to carry WWLP as well. COX covers up the ABC programming on WGGB with WTNH (the local ABC station in the Hartford/New Haven Market). I know because from time to time back before COX went digital only and required all its subscribers to have a box WGGB from time to time would pop up on COX Meriden on either 40.1 or 77.1. - The bummer part about them covering up ABC programming with WTNH is when WTNH was airing breaking news instead of ABC programming.
 
MarcB said:
Comcast Waterbury (which also serves towns including Wolcott and Terryville/Plymouth) only carries one PBS Station - Connecticut Public Television. I believe before they were Comcast they were something like Sammons. Definitely something with an "S" as the first letter in their name.
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There definitey was a cable operator called Sammons Communications operating in Waterbury and Wolcott in 1994. https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1994-08-18-9408180431-story.html
 
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