Naperville, IL Cable Channel Guide 10/12/87

Recording of the electronic channel guide on Jones Intercable on 10/12/1987 in Naperville, IL. Being an electronics and computer hobbyist, I recorded these when I was young, thinking that they would be interesting to watch some day.

Well, here it is 21 years later. Might be a bit more interesting if we wait another 20 years.

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Entertainment

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• Naperville
• IL
• Electronic
• Channel
• Guide
• Jones
• Intercable
• Cable
• TV
• 1987
• 10/12/87

[AnalogueAudio1985]

man i wish I would have taped the cable TV channel guide. and holy crap u guys had a lot of channels even in 1987. I live in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, and we had 40 channels in the '90s, and they were all the same stations from different regions.

[davismv]

Yeah, we did have quite a few channels at the time. Many of them were the text type, informational ones, so they really were not channels.

[quiktymevideo]

I heard this song recently on a temporarily blocked channel. It's still popular after 22 years.

[rzsigray1]

verry cool...i think they used the amiga for the text based stuff what would be neat is if they brought the stuff back to now so that we could run these channels on winuae or amiga forever if sometin breaks...just reboot a pc and walla it's fixed

[mgsnv2]

what was the reason for the pink bar on channels 51 & 60?

[JoebDragon]

@Chenoholic88

cable net had a dual 60 channel system at that time as well. 60 channels on the A and B sides = 120 channel room. In 1994-1995 TCI used the b side for it's digital cable simulation useing the 60 analogs slots to plan the upcoming digital system. 

[bigoranget]

Definately interesting to see what was available in various regions back then. I live in Southern Ontario and we only had 26 basic cable stations (almost all locals) and 3 Pay TV channels; FirstChoice (Canada's answer to HBO), TSN (Canada's answer to ESPN) and MuchMusic (Canada's answer to MTV).

[NeutronDance]

one week away from Black Monday

[SKracing]

SO COOL.

Brings back memories of '90s Century Cable in LA...a lot of the channel/number combos were the same!

[eightiesguy69]

Boy, I miss those nice uncluttered grids from back then...also, cable channels back then were not cluttered up with infomercials

[cableking1258]

In tucson I had jones from 1980 to 2001.Nickelodeon was on 16 ppv was 22, 23 porn 26, showtime 35, tmc 36, hbo 37 and cinemax 38.

[JoebDragon]

like 12 OTA channels.