List of Ajo Television channels (October 1986)

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Ajo Television, was a locally owned and operated cable television company in Ajo, Arizona. "Ajo", by the way, is Spanish for "garlic". Ajo is an unincorporated community in Pima County about 88 miles southwest of Phoenix and about 110 miles west-northwest of Tucson. Customers in October of 1986 had access to a limited number of channels at the time. Today, the community is serviced by Mediacom. (Source: TVTV.us)

Legend

• CALL — The call letters of an over-the-air television station in bold text.
• CABLE — Cable channels in regular text.
•  ##  — Over-the-air channel number for stations within the Tucson-Sierra Vista-Douglas-Nogales television market, according to current laws by the FCC and mapping of markets by Nielsen Media Research. Also, some stations may service areas outside of the television market as well.
•  ##  — Over-the-air channel number for distant out-of-market stations, including regional and national "superstations", according to current laws by the FCC and mapping of markets by Nielsen Media Research.
• Network affiliated stations will have the network's logo (of the corresponding era) next to them and independent stations are unmarked.

Market

The Tucson-Sierra Vista-Douglas-Nogales television market includes 3 counties in Arizona, with market hubs in bold text:

• Counties: Cochise, Pima and Santa Cruz
• Cities: Ajo, Apache, Avra Valley, Bowie, Casas Adobes, Cochise, Double Adobe, Douglas, Drexel Heights, Elfrida, Floating Wells, Green Valley, Huachuca City, Nogales, Oro Valley, Patagonia, San Simon, Sierra Vista, South Tucson, Tanque Verde, Three Points, Tucson and Willcox

Lineup

Source: Newspapers.com (Paid subscription to "Publisher Extra" may be required for some sections)

CH#	Names	Notes/Today
2	CBN Cable Network	CBN Cable Network was spun off by the Christian Broadcasting Network and operates today as Freeform, owned by The Walt Disney Company
3	33  KTVW Phoenix	Now a Univision network owned-and-operated station, owned by TelevisaUnivision as KTVW-DT (SIN short for Spanish International Network with most (if NOT all) of its programs at the time delivered via satellite from Mexico via Televisa, which today, owns a 45 percent stake in what is now TelevisaUnivision, launched a semi-satellite in the Tucson area,  46  KUVE-DT out of Green Valley in 2003)
4	4  KVOA-TV Tucson	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate, now owned by Entertainment Studios (The "-TV" suffix was removed from the call letters in 1996, now as KVOA)
5	5  KPHO-TV Phoenix	Now a CBS affiliate, owned by Gray Television (Became a CBS affiliate when  10  KSAZ-TV became a Fox affiliate in 1994 as part of a nationwide mass-affiliation deal between the network and that station's then-owner New World Communications, also sister to independent station  3  KTVK, which became an independent after losing its ABC affiliation to  15  KNXV-TV, which lost the Fox affiliation to KSAZ, which that network would acquire outright in 1997 with its acquisition of its then-owner New World Communications)
6	6  KUAT-TV Tucson	Then and now, still a PBS member station, still owned and operated by the University of Arizona
7	Home Box Office	A premium subscription network, still operates today by its acronym HBO (Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, Home Box Office is still used as the network's legal corporate name)
8	8  KAET Phoenix	Then and now, still a PBS member station, still owned and operated by Arizona State University
9	9  KGUN-TV Tucson	Then and now, still an ABC affiliate, now owned by The E. W. Scripps Company (The "-TV" suffix was removed from the call letters in 1987 but were reinstated in 2009, also sister station to CW affiliate  58  KWBA-TV out of Sierra Vista)
10	10  KTSP-TV Phoenix	Now a Fox network owned and operated station, now as KSAZ-TV, owned by Fox Television Stations (Call letters changed to the current KSAZ-TV and became a Fox affiliate in 1994 in a nationwide mass-affiliation deal with then-owner New World Communications, taking the affiliation away from charter affiliate  15  KNXV-TV, which then assumed the ABC affiliation from  3  KTVK, sending the CBS affiliation to longtime independent  5  KPHO-TV, Fox acquired the station outright in 1997 through its acquisition of New World Communications, also sister to MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station  45  KUTP)
11	ESPN	A 24-hour channel devoted to local, regional, national and international sports (Owned as a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company at 80% and Hearst Communications at 20%)
12	12  KPNX Mesa-Phoenix	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate, now owned by Tegna Inc. (Also operates a full-time satellite station,  2  KNAZ-TV out of Flagstaff, which was once a standalone station until August of 2008)
13	13  KOLD-TV Tucson	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate, now owned by Gray Television (Gray through KOLD-TV also operates Fox affiliate  11  KMSB and MyNetworkTV affiliate  18  KTTU (then an independent as KDTU in 1986), both of which are owned by Tegna Inc.)