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Southwestern Cable San Diego - March 1987

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Source : The San Diego Union (1987-03-04)

0 - Special Event Channel
1 - Special Event Channel
2 - USA Network
3 - ESPN
4 - KNBC (NBC) Los Angeles / CCN
5 - KTLA (IND) Los Angeles
6 - XETV (IND) Tijuana
7 - KCST (NBC) San Diego
8 - KFMB (CBS) San Diego
9 - KUSI (IND) San Diego
10 - KGTV (ABC) San Diego
11 - KTTV (IND) Los Angeles
12 - KPBS (PBS) San Diego
13 - KCOP (IND) Los Angeles
14 - FNN (3am to 4pm from Monday to Friday) / ARTS (4pm to 1am from Monday to Friday and 5am to 1am in Weekends)
15 - Community Programming / C-SPAN 2
16 - CNN
17 - WTBS (from Atlanta)
18 - KTTY (IND) San Diego
19 - SIN (Univision) / KSCI (IND) Los Angeles
20 - The Playboy Channel (Premium)
21 - HBO (Premium)
22 - Cinemax (Premium)
23 - C-SPAN
24 - Nickelodeon
25 - Lifetime
26 - The Disney Channel (Premium)
27 - Showtime (Premium)
28 - Headline News
29 - Discovery Channel
30 - Reserved for Future Use
31 - MTV
32 - Cable Value Network
33 - The Weather Channel
34 - ITVS (San Diego Learning Channel)
 
Wow, only one channel in Spanish? With San Diego adjacent to Mexico, this cable system airs no Mexican channels other than XETV 6, which broadcasts in English. Channel 18 is SIN (the forerunner to Univision) and KSCI Los Angeles. In those days, when no local station was affiliated with SIN, a cable system could just carry the network feed. But Spanish-speaking cable viewers in San Diego had only one channel for their language? Channel 12 XEWT from Tijuana could easily be picked up in San Diego. Maybe a couple of UHF Tijuana channels should be on this line-up too.

I can understand this cable system pulling in three of Los Angeles' four VHF independent stations, KTLA 5, KTTV 11 and KCOP 13. I wonder why it didn't carry KHJ-TV 9? And why bother carrying KNBC when San Diego has its own NBC affiliate? The other network O&Os in LA are not on this system.
 
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