List of Asheville Cablevision channels (March 1972)

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Asheville Cablevision, also known as Asheville Cable Television or even Cablevision of Asheville, was a locally owned and operated cable television company in Asheville, North Carolina. Customers had access to a limited number of channels, 12 in all, in March of 1972. Today, the city is serviced by Charter Communications through Spectrum. (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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson-Ashville 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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson-Asheville television market includes 28 counties in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, with market hubs in bold text:

• Georgia:
  • Counties: Elbert, Franklin, Hart and Stephens
  • Cities: Ashland, Danielsville, Dewy Rose, Eagle Grove, Eastanollee, Elberton, Franklin Springs, Hartwell, Reed Creek, Sandy Cross and Toccoa
• North Carolina:
  • Counties: Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey
  • Cities: Almond, Arden, Aquone, Asheville, Ashford, Avondale, Bakersville, Balfour, Balsam, Brevard, Bryson City, Candler, Caroleen, Cliffside, Corinth, Cowee, Cherokee, Columbus, Cullowhee, Duncans Creek, Dysartsville, Edneyville, Etowah, Fairview, Flat Rock, Forest City, Franklin, Gilkey, Glenwood, Hendersonville, Henrietta, Hopewell, Hot Springs, Jupiter, Leicester, Little Switzerland, Marion, Marshall, Mill Spring, Naples, Norton, Oak Park, Penrose, Pensacola, Proctor, Providence, Riverside, Robbinsville, Royal Pines, Rutherfordton, Saluda, Spindale, Spruce Pine, Stecoah, Sylva, Tapoco, Tuckasegee, Union Mills, Waynesville, Weaverville, Webster, Wesser, West Marion, White Rock, Wolf Ridge, Woodlawn, Woodrow, Yellow Dam and Zirconia
• South Carolina:
  • Counties: Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg and Union
  • Cities: Aaron, Abbeville, Abingdon, Allendale, Anderson, Antioch, Antreville, Arcadia, Arial, Asbury, Avondale, Belton, Berea, Bethel, Blacksburg, Boiling Springs, Bonham, Bradley, Brookhaven, Buffalo, Calhoun Falls, Callison, Cambridge, Campobello, Carlisle, Cashion Crossroads, Cashville, Cateechee, Centerville, Cherokee Falls, Cherokee Springs, Chesnee, City View, Clemson, Cleveland, Clinton, Conestee, Converse, Coronaca, Cross Hill, Dacusville, Donalds, Drayton, Duncan, Dunean, Easley, East Gaffney, Enoree, Fairview, Gaffney, Gantt, Glendale, Gray Court, Greenville, Hickory Tavern, Highland, Hodges, Homeland Park, Honea Path, Inman, Iva, Jonesville, Judson, Keowee, Kirksey, Landrum, Laurens, Liberty, Little Chicago, Lowndesville, Lyman, Macedonia, Mauldin, Monarch Mill, Mountville, Ninety Six, Northlake, Ora, Overbrook, Pacolet, Parker, Pelzer, Pendleton, Piedmont, Powdersville, Princeton, Reidville, Richland, Roebuck, Rosewood, Salem, Sandy Springs, Sans Souci, Saratt, Seneca, Simpsonville, Six Mile, Slater-Marietta, Spartanburg, Tamassee, Thicketty, Tigerville, Townville, Travelers Rest, Union, Valley Falls, Walhalla, Waterloo, Watts Mills, Welcome, Wellford, West Anderson, Wheatfield, White Plains, Williamston, Winona, Woodberry, Woodruff and Woodville

Lineup

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

CH#	Names	Notes/Today
2	21  WANC-TV Asheville	Defunct, went off the air in 1979 due to a terminated lease on its transmitter site (Returned to the air as WHNS from Asheville under a separate license in April of 1984, license then transferred to the city of Greenville, South Carolina in March of 2003, now a Fox affiliate (since 1988) owned by Gray Television)
3	19  WKPT-TV Kingston, TN	Now a Cozi TV affiliate owned by Glenwood Communications Corporation (Co-owned alongside MeTV affiliate  36  WAPK-CD also out of Kingston, ABC affiliation relocated to the second subchannel ( 11-2 ) of CBS affiliate WJHL-TV out of Johnson City in February of 2016)
4	4  WFBC-TV Greenville, SC	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate (now as WYFF), now owned by Hearst Television (Call letters changed to the current WYFF in March of 1983)
5	5  WCYB-TV Bristol, VA	Now a dual NBC and CW affiliate, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group (Also operates Fox affiliate  39  WEMT out of Greeneville, Tennessee, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting)
6	Time, Weather and Good Music	Defunct, likely a bulletin board and/or teletext channel with the current time and weather conditions displayed while music played in the background, source and format of music unknown at this time
7	7  WSPA-TV Spartanburg, SC	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate, now owned by Nexstar Media Group (Co-owned alongside CW network owned-and-operated station  62  WYCW out of Asheville)
8	33  WUNF-TV Asheville	Still a PBS member station, owned by the University of North Carolina (Part of PBS North Carolina, a network of PBS stations throughout North Carolina)
9	2  WSJK-TV Sneedville, TN	Still a PBS member station (now as WETP-TV) (Owned by the East Tennessee Public Communications Corporation, also operates a full-time satellite station,  15  WKOP-TV out of Knoxville, the "-TV" suffix from the call letters removed in 1979 as WSJK, the call letters then changed entirely to the current WETP-TV in February of 2003)
10	10  WBIR-TV Knoxville, TN	Now an NBC affiliate, now owned by Tegna Inc. (The station swapped affiliations returning CBS to its original and still current affiliate,  26  WTVK-TV (now  8  WVLT-TV, owned by Gray Television) in September of 1988)
11	11  WJHL-TV Johnson City, TN	Now a dual CBS and ABC affiliate, now owned by Nexstar Media Group
12	13  WLOS-TV Asheville	Now a dual ABC and MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group (The "-TV" suffix removed from the call letters as WLOS in 1984, also operates Dabl affiliate  40  WMYA-TV out of Anderson, South Carolina, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, WMYA was then on-air as WAIM-TV, simulcasting WLOS in 1972)
13	WUOT 91.9 FM Knoxville, TN	Then and now, still an NPR member station (Owned by the University of Tennessee, it broadcasts with a classical music format, likely a teletext or bulletin board channel or a still image with WUOT audio piped in)