Finally, the Tri-City Herald has returned to online microfilm. About 12 years ago it was on Google News Archive going up to 1989 or so, but it has returned, and it's very long-awaited.
Here's a listing of several cable providers in the Columbia Basin, SE WA and NE OR dating September 1990.
Tri-Cities (Unusual as locals are on their respective UHF channels, except for LPTV 66. And they carried way more than nearby Yakima did...for several years in fact! WGN, FNN, Movietime, and CMTV not carried in Yakima at that time)
2 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
3 ESPN
4 TBS (Marked as WTBS in the listings)
5 HBO
6 Weather Channel
7 PPV Barker
8 CNN Headline News
9 KCTS Seattle PBS
10 Nickelodeon
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
12 USA Network
13 Discovery Channel
14 Showtime
15 Local Origination
16 Disney Channel
17 QVC
18 CNN
19 KEPR Pasco CBS
20 Shop TV Network
21 Lifetime
22 Cinemax
23 MTV
24 TNT
25 KNDU Richland NBC
26 Prime Sports Northwest
27 AMC / HSN
28 Movietime (later became E!)
29 FNN / Travel Channel
31 KTNW Richland PBS
32 A&E
33 VH1
34 Electronic Program Guide (does not say if it was Prevue Guide or something else)
35 CMTV
36 The Learning Channel
37 Family Channel
38 C-SPAN
39 C-SPAN 2
40 Nostalgia Television
42 KVEW Kennewick ABC
43 Nashville Network
44 Univision
45 BET
46 Request 1 PPV
47 Public Access
48 Request 2 PPV
49 KRLB/K49CN Richland TBN
50 K66BW Kennewick Fox (ID was 'KBW')
West Richland
3 KNDU Richland NBC
4 CNN Headline News
5 KEPR Pasco CBS
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC (full of SyndEx I assume)
7 KSPS Spokane PBS
8 Family Channel
9 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
10 KTNW Richland PBS
11 TBS
12 KVEW Kennewick ABC
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 TNT
16 Disney Channel
17 Showtime
18 HBO
19 QVC
21 EPG
22 K66BW Kennewick Fox
23 USA Network
24 CNN
25 WWOR EMI Service
26 Nashville Network
27 VH1
28 C-SPAN
29 A&E
30 Nickelodeon
31 Lifetime
32 KTVT Fort Worth IND (!!) The only cable provider to carry this Texas independent in SE WA/NE OR.
33 MTV
34 Public Access
35 AMC / HSN
Dayton (No TV from Tri-Cities)
2 KREM Spokane CBS
3 Showtime
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 KATU Portland OR ABC (Very interesting to see them pull this off...must be OTA from the Milton-Freewater translator, and blacked out a'plenty)
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KPTV Portland IND
8 TBS
9 Public Access
10 CMTV
11 Nashville Network
12 MTV
13 Discovery Channel
19 BET
20 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
22 Disney Channel
Umatilla/Irrigon OR (one very interesting lineup, IMO!)
2 KATU Portland OR ABC / KREM Spokane CBS (timeshared, or selected programs only)
3 KEPR Pasco CBS
4 HBO
5 KNDU Richland NBC
6 KOIN Portland OR CBS
7 TBS
8 KGW Portland OR NBC
9 KVEW Kennewick ABC
10 KOAP Portland OR PBS
11 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
12 KPTV Portland OR IND
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 Nickelodeon
16 The Learning Channel / A&E (timeshared)
17 Lifetime
19 Showtime
20 Disney Channel
21 QVC
22 Public Access
23 Family Channel
24 C-SPAN
25 WWOR EMI Service
26 Nashville Network
27 Univision
28 K66BW Kennewick Fox
29 VH1
30 AMC/HSN
31 WPIX New York IND (!!) Another unique instance of a superstation carried in the Tri-City Herald distribution area
32 USA Network
35 CNN
Benton City
3 KNDU Richland NBC
4 USA Network
5 KEPR Pasco CBS
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC (blacked out at times)
7 KTNW Richland PBS
8 HBO
9 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
10 Family Channel
11 TBS
12 KVEW Kennewick ABC
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 TNT
16 A&E
18 Disney Channel
19 CNN
20 Nashville Network
21 VH1
22 WWOR EMI Service
23 C-SPAN
24 Nickelodeon
25 Lifetime
26 EPG
27 CNN Headline News
28 K66BW Kennewick FOX
29 MTV
Waitsburg
2 KREM Spokane CBS
3 Public Access
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 Showtime
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KSPS Spokane PBS
8 ESPN
9 TBS
10 KRLB/K49CN Kennewick TBN
11 Nashville Network
12 CNN Headline News (No CNN itself!)
13 KEPR Pasco CBS
28 (lists K66BW Kennewick, Fox, but more likely KAYU Spokane given the others from that area)
Boardman OR
2 KATU Portland OR ABC
3 KEPR Pasco CBS
4 HBO
5 KNDU Richland NBC
6 KOIN Portland OR CBS
7 TBS
8 KGW Portland OR NBC
9 KVEW Kennewick ABC
10 KOAP Portland OR PBS
11 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
12 KPTV Portland OR IND
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 Nickelodeon
16 The Learning Channel / A&E (timeshared)
17 Lifetime
19 MTV
20 Disney Channel
23 Family Channel
25 WWOR EMI Service
26 Nashville Network
27 Univision
28 K66BW Kennewick Fox
29 VH1
30 PTL Network
31 Univision
32 USA Network
34 CNN
Walla Walla
3 Public Access
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 CNN
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 C-SPAN
8 USA Network
9 A&E / TLC (timeshared)
10 KWSU Pullman PBS
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
12 Lifetime
13 ESPN
14 Showtime
15 Nickelodeon
16 Discovery Channel
17 TBS
18 MTV
19 KEPR Pasco CBS
20 Disney Channel
21 KVEW Kennewick ABC
22 Cinemax
23 HBO
24 Family Channel
25 KNDU Richland NBC
26 CNN Headline News
27 Nashville Network
28 K66BW Kennewick Fox
29 Weather Channel
30 CHEK Victoria BC CTV
31 Univision
32 KCTS Seattle PBS
Lower Valley - Sunnyside/Grandview/Prosser/Mabton
2 KAPP Yakima ABC
3 USA Network (At one point, WWOR was carried on ch 3 pre-EMI.)
4 KNDO Yakima NBC
5 Showtime
6 KIMA Yakima CBS
7 CHEK Victoria CTV (Hundreds and hundreds of tapes later, and I have never found any CHEK programming from this timeframe. Should be a given since it was carried in parts of Yakima County...)
8 KYVE Yakima PBS
9 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
10 Family Channel
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
12 ESPN
13 CNN
14 Nickelodeon
15 Nashville Network
16 (lists KRLB/K49CN Kennewick, TBN, but more likely it's CBY in Yakima, Christian Broadcasting of Yakima which was on ch 64 IIRC.)
17 TBS
18 HBO
19 CNN Headline News
20 MTV
21 Cinemax
22 Disney Channel
23 Discovery Channel
24 Univision
25 Galavision
Othello (another interesting lineup, probably lots of syndex blackouts on ch 5 and 10!))
3 Public Access
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 KING Seattle NBC
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KSPS Spokane PBS
8 TBS
9 CHEK Victoria BC CTV
10 KIRO Seattle CBS
11 KNDU Richland NBC
12 KVEW Kennewick ABC
13 KEPR Pasco CBS
16 USA Network
17 ESPN
18 Nickelodeon
19 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
20 The Movie Channel
21 HBO
22 Disney Channel
23 PTL Network
24 Family Channel
25 CNN
26 Univision
29 KRLB/K49CN Kennewick TBN
30 Nashville Network
31 C-SPAN
32 Weather Channel
33 CNN Headline News
34 Discovery Channel
35 QVC
36 Cinemax
Connell
2 KREM Spokane CBS
3 Disney Channel
4 CNN
5 Showtime
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KTNW Richland PBS
8 TBS (lists it accidentally on 2, but I think KREM was full-time w/ some blackouts, and the Herald made a mistake. I can't imagine KREM and TBS timesharing. However, they may have placed TBS onto ch 2 during CBS programming)
9 KNDU Richland NBC
10 K66BW Kennewick FOX
11 KVEW Kennewick ABC
12 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
13 KEPR Pasco CBS
There was one more for Hermiston OR, but it was full of mistakes and won't be posted.
Here's a listing of several cable providers in the Columbia Basin, SE WA and NE OR dating September 1990.
Tri-Cities (Unusual as locals are on their respective UHF channels, except for LPTV 66. And they carried way more than nearby Yakima did...for several years in fact! WGN, FNN, Movietime, and CMTV not carried in Yakima at that time)
2 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
3 ESPN
4 TBS (Marked as WTBS in the listings)
5 HBO
6 Weather Channel
7 PPV Barker
8 CNN Headline News
9 KCTS Seattle PBS
10 Nickelodeon
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
12 USA Network
13 Discovery Channel
14 Showtime
15 Local Origination
16 Disney Channel
17 QVC
18 CNN
19 KEPR Pasco CBS
20 Shop TV Network
21 Lifetime
22 Cinemax
23 MTV
24 TNT
25 KNDU Richland NBC
26 Prime Sports Northwest
27 AMC / HSN
28 Movietime (later became E!)
29 FNN / Travel Channel
31 KTNW Richland PBS
32 A&E
33 VH1
34 Electronic Program Guide (does not say if it was Prevue Guide or something else)
35 CMTV
36 The Learning Channel
37 Family Channel
38 C-SPAN
39 C-SPAN 2
40 Nostalgia Television
42 KVEW Kennewick ABC
43 Nashville Network
44 Univision
45 BET
46 Request 1 PPV
47 Public Access
48 Request 2 PPV
49 KRLB/K49CN Richland TBN
50 K66BW Kennewick Fox (ID was 'KBW')
West Richland
3 KNDU Richland NBC
4 CNN Headline News
5 KEPR Pasco CBS
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC (full of SyndEx I assume)
7 KSPS Spokane PBS
8 Family Channel
9 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
10 KTNW Richland PBS
11 TBS
12 KVEW Kennewick ABC
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 TNT
16 Disney Channel
17 Showtime
18 HBO
19 QVC
21 EPG
22 K66BW Kennewick Fox
23 USA Network
24 CNN
25 WWOR EMI Service
26 Nashville Network
27 VH1
28 C-SPAN
29 A&E
30 Nickelodeon
31 Lifetime
32 KTVT Fort Worth IND (!!) The only cable provider to carry this Texas independent in SE WA/NE OR.
33 MTV
34 Public Access
35 AMC / HSN
Dayton (No TV from Tri-Cities)
2 KREM Spokane CBS
3 Showtime
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 KATU Portland OR ABC (Very interesting to see them pull this off...must be OTA from the Milton-Freewater translator, and blacked out a'plenty)
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KPTV Portland IND
8 TBS
9 Public Access
10 CMTV
11 Nashville Network
12 MTV
13 Discovery Channel
19 BET
20 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
22 Disney Channel
Umatilla/Irrigon OR (one very interesting lineup, IMO!)
2 KATU Portland OR ABC / KREM Spokane CBS (timeshared, or selected programs only)
3 KEPR Pasco CBS
4 HBO
5 KNDU Richland NBC
6 KOIN Portland OR CBS
7 TBS
8 KGW Portland OR NBC
9 KVEW Kennewick ABC
10 KOAP Portland OR PBS
11 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
12 KPTV Portland OR IND
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 Nickelodeon
16 The Learning Channel / A&E (timeshared)
17 Lifetime
19 Showtime
20 Disney Channel
21 QVC
22 Public Access
23 Family Channel
24 C-SPAN
25 WWOR EMI Service
26 Nashville Network
27 Univision
28 K66BW Kennewick Fox
29 VH1
30 AMC/HSN
31 WPIX New York IND (!!) Another unique instance of a superstation carried in the Tri-City Herald distribution area
32 USA Network
35 CNN
Benton City
3 KNDU Richland NBC
4 USA Network
5 KEPR Pasco CBS
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC (blacked out at times)
7 KTNW Richland PBS
8 HBO
9 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
10 Family Channel
11 TBS
12 KVEW Kennewick ABC
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 TNT
16 A&E
18 Disney Channel
19 CNN
20 Nashville Network
21 VH1
22 WWOR EMI Service
23 C-SPAN
24 Nickelodeon
25 Lifetime
26 EPG
27 CNN Headline News
28 K66BW Kennewick FOX
29 MTV
Waitsburg
2 KREM Spokane CBS
3 Public Access
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 Showtime
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KSPS Spokane PBS
8 ESPN
9 TBS
10 KRLB/K49CN Kennewick TBN
11 Nashville Network
12 CNN Headline News (No CNN itself!)
13 KEPR Pasco CBS
28 (lists K66BW Kennewick, Fox, but more likely KAYU Spokane given the others from that area)
Boardman OR
2 KATU Portland OR ABC
3 KEPR Pasco CBS
4 HBO
5 KNDU Richland NBC
6 KOIN Portland OR CBS
7 TBS
8 KGW Portland OR NBC
9 KVEW Kennewick ABC
10 KOAP Portland OR PBS
11 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
12 KPTV Portland OR IND
13 ESPN
14 Discovery Channel
15 Nickelodeon
16 The Learning Channel / A&E (timeshared)
17 Lifetime
19 MTV
20 Disney Channel
23 Family Channel
25 WWOR EMI Service
26 Nashville Network
27 Univision
28 K66BW Kennewick Fox
29 VH1
30 PTL Network
31 Univision
32 USA Network
34 CNN
Walla Walla
3 Public Access
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 CNN
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 C-SPAN
8 USA Network
9 A&E / TLC (timeshared)
10 KWSU Pullman PBS
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
12 Lifetime
13 ESPN
14 Showtime
15 Nickelodeon
16 Discovery Channel
17 TBS
18 MTV
19 KEPR Pasco CBS
20 Disney Channel
21 KVEW Kennewick ABC
22 Cinemax
23 HBO
24 Family Channel
25 KNDU Richland NBC
26 CNN Headline News
27 Nashville Network
28 K66BW Kennewick Fox
29 Weather Channel
30 CHEK Victoria BC CTV
31 Univision
32 KCTS Seattle PBS
Lower Valley - Sunnyside/Grandview/Prosser/Mabton
2 KAPP Yakima ABC
3 USA Network (At one point, WWOR was carried on ch 3 pre-EMI.)
4 KNDO Yakima NBC
5 Showtime
6 KIMA Yakima CBS
7 CHEK Victoria CTV (Hundreds and hundreds of tapes later, and I have never found any CHEK programming from this timeframe. Should be a given since it was carried in parts of Yakima County...)
8 KYVE Yakima PBS
9 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
10 Family Channel
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
12 ESPN
13 CNN
14 Nickelodeon
15 Nashville Network
16 (lists KRLB/K49CN Kennewick, TBN, but more likely it's CBY in Yakima, Christian Broadcasting of Yakima which was on ch 64 IIRC.)
17 TBS
18 HBO
19 CNN Headline News
20 MTV
21 Cinemax
22 Disney Channel
23 Discovery Channel
24 Univision
25 Galavision
Othello (another interesting lineup, probably lots of syndex blackouts on ch 5 and 10!))
3 Public Access
4 KXLY Spokane ABC
5 KING Seattle NBC
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KSPS Spokane PBS
8 TBS
9 CHEK Victoria BC CTV
10 KIRO Seattle CBS
11 KNDU Richland NBC
12 KVEW Kennewick ABC
13 KEPR Pasco CBS
16 USA Network
17 ESPN
18 Nickelodeon
19 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
20 The Movie Channel
21 HBO
22 Disney Channel
23 PTL Network
24 Family Channel
25 CNN
26 Univision
29 KRLB/K49CN Kennewick TBN
30 Nashville Network
31 C-SPAN
32 Weather Channel
33 CNN Headline News
34 Discovery Channel
35 QVC
36 Cinemax
Connell
2 KREM Spokane CBS
3 Disney Channel
4 CNN
5 Showtime
6 KHQ-TV Spokane NBC
7 KTNW Richland PBS
8 TBS (lists it accidentally on 2, but I think KREM was full-time w/ some blackouts, and the Herald made a mistake. I can't imagine KREM and TBS timesharing. However, they may have placed TBS onto ch 2 during CBS programming)
9 KNDU Richland NBC
10 K66BW Kennewick FOX
11 KVEW Kennewick ABC
12 WGN Chicago (National Feed)
13 KEPR Pasco CBS
There was one more for Hermiston OR, but it was full of mistakes and won't be posted.