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Yakima Valley cable lineup extravaganza - June 1988

Loads of them in this thread! This was pre-TCI, when the cable was known as "McCaw Cable." Before McCaw, it was Cox.
Notice with the McCaw City listing, the networks are on the same channels 28 years later as Charter.

McCaw Yakima
2 KAPP Yakima (ABC)
3 C-SPAN (which would later be K53CY, KCYU-LP and now KCYU-LD, Fox 41)
4 KNDO Yakima (NBC)
5 Showtime
6 KIMA Yakima (CBS)
7 Program Guide - I wonder if it was the same one as this, taped in 1991 after TCI took over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0MiKIUTmk
8 KYVE Yakima (PBS)
10 Christian Broadcasting of Yakima/CBN Cable Network
11 Yakima Valley Skills Center
12 YCTV (Community Broadcasting)
13 Yakima Valley Skills Center (again)
14 The Weather Channel
15 TNN
16 KSTW Tacoma (IND)
17 WTBS Atlanta (IND)
18 ESPN
19 CNN Headline News
20 MTV
21 Cinemax
22 SIN (later Univision)
23 USA Network
24 CNN
26 HBO
27 Lifetime
28 FNN
29 A&E
30 Disney Channel
31 Nickelodeon
32 AMC
33 KOMO Seattle (ABC) - An oddity indeed. I suppose there were so many blackouts on this channel due to KAPP...no wonder it was gone by the 1990s.
34 CHEK Victoria (CTV) - Too bad we don't get a Canadian station here in Yakima. We need to!
35 Galavision

How about Selah's McCaw?
2 A&E/Nickelodeon (shared time...apparently they never got the memo that Nick at Nite was on every night in 1988, and still shared time with A&E!)
3 C-SPAN
4 KAPP Yakima (ABC)
5 KNDO Yakima (NBC)
6 ESPN
7 KIMA Yakima (CBS)
8 Christian Broadcasting of Yakima/CBN Cable
9 KYVE Yakima (PBS) - Notice they wanted the networks to look like Seattle in terms of ch lineup
10 WTBS Atlanta (IND)
11 KSTW Tacoma (IND)
12 USA Network
13 CNN
14 Lifetime
15 TNN
16 MTV
18 WGN Chicago (IND)
19 Showtime
20 HBO
22 The Disney Channel

Chinook Cable, Nile WA (a 2-13 system only - with no pay TV!)
2 KNDO Yakima (NBC)
3 TNN
4 KIMA Yakima (CBS)
5 WGN Chicago (IND)
6 KAPP Yakima (ABC)
7 KYVE Yakima (PBS)
8 CNN
10 WTBS Atlanta (IND)
11 KSTW Tacoma (IND)
12 ESPN
13 KCPQ Tacoma (IND) - Only cable system in the area to carry them.

Upper Valley Cable - Another 2-13 system only. This MAY have been Selah area as well, but I'm not sure where exactly.
2 KNDO Yakima (NBC)
3 USA Network
4 KIMA Yakima (CBS)
5 HBO
6 KAPP Yakima (ABC)
7 WTBS Atlanta (IND)
8 KYVE Yakima (PBS)
9 ESPN
10 WGN Chicago (IND)
11 CBN Cable Network
12 CNN
13 TNN

McCaw Cable Mid-Valley (Toppenish, Zillah etc) - this may be one of the more interesting ones in the valley...
2 Program Guide
3 WWOR New York (IND) - The only one to carry this superstation in the valley.
4 KAPP Yakima (ABC)
5 KNDO Yakima (NBC)
6 CBC North (confirmed which CBC feed this was, tnx installLSC!)
7 KIMA Yakima (CBS)
8 Christian Broadcasting of Yakima/CBN Cable
9 KYVE Yakima (PBS)
10 WGN Chicago (IND)
11 SIN
12 ESPN
13 CNN
15 TNN
16 MTV
17 WTBS Atlanta (IND)
18 AMC
19 Discovery Channel (Besides Ellensburg, this was the other cable provider that carried DSC in its early days)
20 The Weather Channel
21 USA Network
24 HBO
25 Galavision
26 Showtime
27 The Disney Channel
 
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