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Warner Cable (Canton and North Canton, Ohio) 1976

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Warner Cable customers in Canton and North Canton, Ohio has access to 13 channels (two in one) in 1976... Warner Cable is now part of Charter Spectrum, which serves these communities as well as other parts of Northeast Ohio to this day...

Requested by: @mpepin

Source: Facebook

CHANNELS:

2. WUAB 43 Lorain-Cleveland (Independent, now CW)
3. WKYC-TV 3 Cleveland (then and now, still an NBC affiliate, the "-TV" suffix removed from calls in 2009, now as WKYC) [1]
4. WJAN 17 Canton-Cleveland (Independent, now Scripps News as WDLI-TV)
5. WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland (then and now, still ABC)
6. WTRF-TV 7 Wheeling WV (NBC and ABC, now CBS, MyNetworkTV and ABC) [2]
7. Star Channel (now The Movie Channel)
8. WJW-TV 8 Cleveland (CBS, now Fox, was a network O&O from 1997 to 2008, the "-TV" suffix removed from calls in 1998, now as WJW)
9. WSTV-TV 9 Steubenville (CBS and ABC, now NBC and Fox as WTOV-TV) [2]
10. WAKR-TV 23 Akron-Canton-Cleveland (ABC, now Ion as WVPX-TV, was a network O&O from 1998 to 2021) [3]
11. WYTV 33 Youngstown (then and now, still ABC, now with MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation) [4]
11. KDKA-TV 2 Pittsburgh PA (then and now, still a CBS affiliate, a network O&O since 1995) [4]
12. WVIZ 25 Cleveland (then and now, still PBS)
13. WFMJ-TV 21 Youngstown (then and now, still NBC, now with CW as a secondary affiliation)

NOTES:
  1. WKYC was at the time solely and wholly NBC network owned-and-operated until 1990 when a sold 51% majority stake to television production company and third-party broadcaster Multimedia, Inc., which was subsequently acquired by and absorbed into the Gannett Company in December of 1995... Gannett's stake in the station increased to 58% in April of 1999 and then to 64% in December of 2000... Gannett would complete its outright purchase of WKYC by acquiring the remaining 36% in 2001... Gannett Company spun-off its television stations division into a new standalone company, Tegna Inc. in 2015, which still owns and operates the station to this very day...
  2. At the time and continuing into the early 1980s, WTRF-TV and WSTV-TV (now WTOV-TV) split the ABC affiliation in the Upper Ohio Valley... ABC programming in that market is now carried exclusively by WTRF on a digital subchannel...
  3. WAKR-TV had served as the ABC affiliate serving Akron in Summit County and Canton in Stark County as well as some surrounding areas but once the Cleveland and Akron-Canton markets were merged into one single market and late television executive and Home Shopping Network (now HSN) co-founder Lowell "Bud" Paxson (1935-2015) acquired the station, WAKC-TV (the former WAKR-TV) lost the ABC affiliation by January of 1996 and went independent until the launch of the PAX television network in August of 1998, and its call letters were changed to the current WVPX-TV ahead of the launch... PAX now operates as Ion Television, owned by The E. W. Scripps Company, while WVPX is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings...
  4. These were split channels, their exact carriage hours are unknown at this time...
 
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