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Worst Cable Systems in America

ftballfan said:
Alliance Cable – Merryville, LA (No ABC affiliate, yet two FOX affiliates!)
2 HBO
3 WGN-America
4 TBS Superstation
5 EWTN
6 ABC Family
7 KPLC-NBC 7 Lake Charles,LA
8 KVHP-FOX 29 Lake Charles, LA
9 QVC
10 KFDM-CBS 6 Beaumont, TX
11 KBTV-FOX 4 Beaumount/Port Authur,TX
13 KLTL-PBS 18 Lake Charles,LA
14 TNT
15 Spike TV
16 ESPN
17 ESPN 2
18 CNN
19 Disney Channel
20 USA
21 Outdoor Channel
22 A&E
23 Discovery Channel
24 Nickelodeon
25 WEATH
26 CNBC
27 AMC
28 Disney Jr
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They have ABC Family, but it's not the same.
 
Easton, WA is no mans land. There are probably 15 customers if that. FM is quiet as well - Ellensburg especially KXLE 95.3, some multipathed Seattle stuff, maybe KISM, maybe KFFM 107.3, KPQ 102.1 Wenatchee, and that's about the whole dial. Heck the school is K-12 with only about 80 students, maybe!

-crainbebo
 
Comcast - Tucumcari NM
Just six digital channels, no premium services!
2 WGN America
3 KVII-CW (Amarillo)
4 MTV
5 TBS
6 KCIT-FOX (Amarillo)
7 KVII-ABC (Amarillo)
8 KOB-NBC (Albuquerque)
9 KAMR-NBC (Amarillo)
10 KFDA-CBS (Amarillo)
11 KENW-PBS (Portales)
12 KOAT-ABC (Albuquerque)
13 KRQE-CBS (Albuquerque)
14 FSN New Mexico
15 CNN
16 MSNBC
19 HSN
20 TLC
21 ESPN
23 ABC Family
24 CNN HLN
25 USA
26 QVC
27 A&E
28 Galavisión
29 Nickelodeon
30 AMC
31 VH1
33 Univision
34 CNBC
35 Lifetime
36 TNT
37 Spike
38 History
39 Cartoon Network
41 Syfy
42 Discovery Channel
44 NBC Sports Network
45 Disney Channel
46 Fox News Channel
96 Mesalands Community College
97 TBN
99 E! (5pm-8am)
132 The Weather Channel
138 History
139 Cartoon Network
140 Hallmark Channel
143 CMT
198 EWTN
 
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mvcg66b3r said:
Comcast - Tucumcari NM
Just six digital channels, no premium services!
2 WGN America
3 KVII-CW (Amarillo)
4 MTV
5 TBS
6 KCIT-FOX (Amarillo)
7 KVII-ABC (Amarillo)
8 KOB-NBC (Albuquerque)
9 KAMR-NBC (Amarillo)
10 KFDA-CBS (Amarillo)
11 KENW-PBS (Portales)
12 KOAT-ABC (Albuquerque)
13 KRQE-CBS (Albuquerque)
14 FSN New Mexico
15 CNN
16 MSNBC
19 HSN
20 TLC
21 ESPN
23 ABC Family
24 CNN HLN
25 USA
26 QVC
27 A&E
28 Galavisión
29 Nickelodeon
30 AMC
31 VH1
33 Univision
34 CNBC
35 Lifetime
36 TNT
37 Spike
38 History
39 Cartoon Network
41 Syfy
42 Discovery Channel
44 NBC Sports Network
45 Disney Channel
46 Fox News Channel
96 Mesalands Community College
97 TBN
99 E! (5pm-8am)
132 The Weather Channel
138 History
139 Cartoon Network
140 Hallmark Channel
143 CMT
198 EWTN
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And of those 6 channels on their "digital cable" two of them are repeated on the main lineup (History on 38 and 138, Cartoon Network on 39 and 139). But it appears that the 4 remaining digital channels were once on the main tier as channels 32, 40, 43 and 98 are skipped on this lineup (add 100 to each of these numbers and you have the digital channel number).
 
mvcg66b3r said:
Comcast - Tucumcari NM
Just six digital channels, no premium services!
2 WGN America
3 KVII-CW (Amarillo)
4 MTV
5 TBS
6 KCIT-FOX (Amarillo)
7 KVII-ABC (Amarillo)
8 KOB-NBC (Albuquerque)
9 KAMR-NBC (Amarillo)
10 KFDA-CBS (Amarillo)
11 KENW-PBS (Portales)
12 KOAT-ABC (Albuquerque)
13 KRQE-CBS (Albuquerque)
14 FSN New Mexico
15 CNN
16 MSNBC
19 HSN
20 TLC
21 ESPN
23 ABC Family
24 CNN HLN
25 USA
26 QVC
27 A&E
28 Galavisión
29 Nickelodeon
30 AMC
31 VH1
33 Univision
34 CNBC
35 Lifetime
36 TNT
37 Spike
38 History
39 Cartoon Network
41 Syfy
42 Discovery Channel
44 NBC Sports Network
45 Disney Channel
46 Fox News Channel
96 Mesalands Community College
97 TBN
99 E! (5pm-8am)
132 The Weather Channel
138 History
139 Cartoon Network
140 Hallmark Channel
143 CMT
198 EWTN
Click to expand...
No HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, ESPN2, C-SPAN, just to mention a few!
 
Suddenlink - Shamrock TX
2 Community Channel
3 Cinemax
4 KAMR-NBC Amarillo, TX
5 INSP
6 TBN
7 KVII-ABC Amarillo, TX
8 The CW
9 KPTF-IND Farwell, TX
10 KFDA-CBS Amarillo, TX
11 KCIT-FOX Amarillo, TX
12 KETA-PBS Oklahoma City, OK
13 QVC
14 CNN
15 The Movie Channel
16 ABC Family
17 Showtime
18 TNT
19 Hallmark Channel
20 Disney Channel
21 HBO
22 Spike
23 ESPN
24 ESPN2
25 USA
26 Nickelodeon
27 GAC
28 HLN
29 truTV
30 Lifetime
31 Syfy
32 TLC
33 E!
34 TV Land
35 Discovery Channel
36 AMC
37 Cartoon Network
38 FS Southwest
39 TBS
40 History
41 Animal Planet
42 Univision
43 HGTV
44 FOX News Channel
45 FX
46 VH1
47 National Geographic Channel
48 MSNBC
49 A&E
50 HSN
51 Food Network
52 Comedy Central
53 TCM
54 CNBC
55 Outdoor Channel
56 MTV
57 The Weather Channel
58 Bravo
59 FOX Sports 1
 
 
Suddenlink in Senecaville OH (Columbus DMA) thinks it's in the Zanesville DMA, as only WHIZ is carried in HD and none of the Columbus stations. Also, it's a "semi-cursed" system with several HD channels but no HD premiums.
 
Eastlink - Richards Landing, ON (just east of Sault Ste. Marie ON)
2 - CHBX (CTV) Sault Ste. Marie
3 - CITV (Global) Edmonton
4 - CBLT (CBC) Toronto
5 - CHCH (Ind) Hamilton
6 - CBLFT (ici) Toronto
7 - TFO
8 - WTVS (PBS) Detroit
9 - WXYZ (ABC) Detroit
10 - WGRZ (NBC) Buffalo
11 - WWJ (CBS) Detroit
12 - E!
13 - CICA (TVO) Toronto
14 - Discovery Channel
15 - Sportsnet Ontario
16 - WUHF (FOX) Rochester
17 - TSN
18 - Ontario Legislature
19 - CMT
21 - CITY (Citytv) Toronto
22 - The Weather Network
23 - CIII (Global) Toronto
24 - HGTV
25 - Space
26 - M3
27 - The Movie Network
28 - DTOUR

Very few channels, plus choosing to import American network affiliates from Detroit, Buffalo, and Rochester when there are Big Four affiliates (all of them when DT2 subchannels are included) with sticks less than 20 miles away. I wouldn't be surprised if this system doesn't have digital equipment to pick them up. Other nearby cable systems are guilty of that as well.
 
Some Comcast cursed systems.
Brown City, MI (Detroit DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/brown-city?zip=48453&mso=08010&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI54430-DEFAULT
Deckerville, MI (Detroit DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/de...so=08010&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI54747-DEFAULT
Lexington, MI (Detroit DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/lexington?zip=48450&mso=08010&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI55556-X
Sandusky, MI (Detroit DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/sandusky?zip=48471&mso=08010&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI21574-DEFAULT
Yale, MI (Detroit DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/yale?zip=48097&mso=08010&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI21596-DEFAULT

Mediacom has some as well.
Marcellus, MI (South Bend DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/marcellus?zip=49067&mso=14520&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI55173-DEFAULT
Mendon, MI (Grand Rapids DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/mendon?zip=49072&mso=14520&store=1&lineupid=USA-MI21651-DEFAULT

Some independents:
Big River Properties (Irons, MI) (Traverse City DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/irons?zip=49644&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI68414-DEFAULT – Carries the Big 4 Grand Rapids stations and missing the in-market ABC and PBS stations
Crystal CATV (Crystal, MI) (Grand Rapids DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/crystal?zip=48818&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI61184-DEFAULT – Crystal shares a school district with Carson City, which doesn’t have cable coverage at all despite a population of around 1,200
Golden Communications (Irons, MI) (Traverse City DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/irons?zip=49644&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI67350-X
Golden Communications (Mears, MI) (Grand Rapids DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/mears?zip=49436&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI65794-X – Only carries ABC and FOX from Grand Rapids; CBS, NBC, and PBS from Traverse City-Cadillac; not as cursed as some of the above, but no HD
Lewiston Communications (Lewiston, MI) (Traverse City DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/lewiston?zip=49756&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI55488-DEFAULT
Summit Digital (LeRoy, MI) (Traverse City DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/leroy?zip=49655&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI69735-DEFAULT
Summit Digital (McBain, MI) (Traverse City DMA): http://www.zap2it.com/tvlistings/mc-bain?zip=49657&mso= &store=1&lineupid=USA-MI69734-DEFAULT
 
 
Full Channel in Bristol Co., RI as an alternate provider to Cox, though this system has been in the community for 30 years while Cox came in about 10 years ago to compete.

Here's their basic lineup: http://fullchannel.com/cable/stdplus_lineup.pdf
And their digital lineup: http://fullchannel.com/cable/digital_lineup.pdf

I will say it has improved quite a bit since Cox came in 10 years ago, though they still have a few significant channels missing. Note they don't carry the local PBS in HD, and are missing a few significant cable channels as well.
 
ftballfan said:
Eastlink - Richards Landing, ON (just east of Sault Ste. Marie ON)
Very few channels, plus choosing to import American network affiliates from Detroit, Buffalo, and Rochester when there are Big Four affiliates (all of them when DT2 subchannels are included) with sticks less than 20 miles away. I wouldn't be surprised if this system doesn't have digital equipment to pick them up. Other nearby cable systems are guilty of that as well.
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In Canada it doesnt work that way. The CRTC has a list of cities that cable companies can use for US Nets and all are on Satellite (Via CANCOM). Detroit, Buffalo, Seattle and Spokane are the Big 4 cities. Rochester, NY Fox has been on the list for years. In fact in Thunder Bay they had to petition to the CRTC to be allowed to change from Detroit to Minneapolis for US Nets.

In Winnipeg as example they have
WCCO Minneapolis CBS
WDAZ Grand Forks ABC
PBS Grand Forks
KARE Mpls NBC
FOX Rochester, NY
 
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