List of Coaxial Cable channels in Columbus, Ohio (August 1996)

Coaxial Cable customers in Columbus, Ohio had access to the channels listed below in August of 1996. Very little is known about the company at this time, but it is likely long defunct. Spectrum nowadays, services the city.

• *NOTE: Origins and purposes of secondary channel assignments unknown at this time. Likely a distinguishment between coaxial and converter box configurations though exact details remain unclear at this time.

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Channel(s)#*	Name	Notes/Today
2/52	Home & Garden Television	Now known simply as HGTV, features programming focused entirely on home improvement, do-it-yourself and gardening
3	GTC3	A local cable access channel out of Columbus, now operating as CTV Columbus Government Television
4/7	WCMH Ch. 4 (NBC) Columbus	Still an NBC affiliate today, was a network O&O at the time until 2006
5	USA Network	Today owned by NBCUniversal
6/13	WSYX Ch. 6 (ABC) Columbus	Still an ABC affiliate, sister to CW affiliate WWHO and TBD/Antenna TV O&O WTTE
7/10	CMP Television	Unknown
8	WTTE Ch. 28 (Fox) Columbus	Currently a dual TBD/Antenna TV affiliate, the non-license (intellectual) assets and Fox affiliation of WTTE were transferred to the third digital subchannel of ABC affiliate and sister WSYX in January of 2021, also sister to CW affiliate WWHO
9/42	Cable News Network	CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel
10/11	WBNS Ch. 10 (CBS) Columbus	Still a CBS affiliate
11/43	ESPN	Owned as a joint venture between Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company
12/49	Turner Network Television	Programming shifted from mostly classic movies towards drama movies and shows over the years with sporting events featured as well, solely by the acronym TNT
13/50	The Nashville Network (TNN)	A channel once focused on country music and lifestyle, it now operates as a general entertainment channel as Paramount Network
14/46	Lifetime	Programming geared towards women and women in lead roles of movies and shows
15/47	The Family Channel	Sold to Fox becoming Fox Family in 1998 and then resold to The Walt Disney Company and renamed ABC Family in 2001 and rebranded and relaunched as Freeform in 2016
16/48	American Movie Classics	Today operates only by the acronym AMC, shifted from originally exclusively classic movies (as a pay channel) towards movies, shows and originally programming (as a general cable channel)
17	WTBS Ch. 17 (Independent) Atlanta, Georgia	Both the station and the cable network were separated from each other in 2007, with the station operating today as WPCH-TV, owned by Gray Television
18	WUAB Ch. 43 (UPN) Lorain-Cleveland	Now that market's CW network affiliate
19	Prevue Channel	Today operates as Pop, a general entertainment channel, with programming aimed at popular culture (The scrolling guides for which the network was legendary for were phased out over the years, at least on the network)
20/40	Nickelodeon	Programming then and now, still consists of programming towards children and teenagers up to 18 years of age
	Nick at Nite	Programming initially consisted of 1950s and 1960s shows but shows from later decades added in the years and decades since
21/6	Community Television	Defunct, off the air [1]
22/51	The Discovery Channel	Still operates today with a program mix of technology, science, nature and reality, and its name shortened to just Discovery
23	Arts & Entertainment (A&E)	Once a channel focused on arts and history, the channel has shifted significantly towards reality shows, dramas and documentaries, now simply known as A&E
24/56	The Learning Channel	Initially focused on educational and learning content, by the late 1990s the network began shifting to reality series involving lifestyles, family life, and personal stories as TLC
25/5	Educational Access	Unknown, a local cable access channel with educational and instructional programming
26	Cable Video Store #1	A defunct pay-per-view channel, replaced by iN DEMAND
27	WGN Ch. 9 (WB) Chicago, Illinois	The direct feed of the OTA station at the time, its later cable counterpart, WGN America, was rebranded as NewsNation (Meanwhile, WGN itself would become an independent once again starting in 2016)
28/53	CNN Headline News	Once a companion network to CNN with news headlines, programming has shifted mostly to crime and law-oriented shows and documentaries in recent years as HLN
29/60	The Weather Channel	Weather forecasting and science and in recent years, weather related shows and documentaries as well
30	Sports Video Plex	Unknown, a sports channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time
	Consumer News and Business Channel	Still operates today, but only by the acronym CNBC, exact carriage hours unknown at this time
31/20	C-SPAN	A channel entirely focused on government and public affairs
32/21	Home Shopping Network	Now known only by the acronym HSN, one of America's two major home shopping networks, the other being QVC
33/18	ValueVision	A home shopping television network, still operating today, as ShopHQ
34/12	WOSU Ch. 34 (PBS) Columbus	Still a PBS member station, owned by and named after Ohio State University
35	Comedy Central	Comedy movies and shows, owned by ViacomCBS
36/16	E! Entertainment Television	Originally focused primarily on entertainment news and gossip, but has shifted towards pop culture, celebrity focused reality shows, and movies
37	Video Hits One	Owned by ViacomCBS, it has shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas in recent years, now simply as VH1
38	Music Television	Owned by ViacomCBS, like its sister VH1, MTV has also shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas in recent years
39	Cable Video Store #2	A defunct pay-per-view channel, replaced by iN DEMAND
40	Cable Video Store #3	A defunct pay-per-view channel, replaced by iN DEMAND
41	ESPN2	A companion network to ESPN, a joint venture between Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company
42	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by ViacomCBS
43	The Movie Channel	Sister network to Showtime, owned by ViacomCBS
44	SportsChannel Ohio	Later sold to Fox and became Fox Sports Ohio, before being sold to Entertainment Studios and Sinclair Broadcast Group and relaunched as Bally Sports Ohio in 2021
45	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel
46	Cinemax	Sister network to HBO, owned by WarnerMedia
47	Cinemax 2	A companion network to Cinemax, rebranded as MoreMax with a greater focus towards more foreign, independent and special interest films
48	Home Box Office	Still operates today by its acronym HBO, Home Box Office (owned today by WarnerMedia) is still used as the network's legal corporate name
49	HBO 2	A companion network to HBO, with branding shifting between HBO Plus and HBO2 before finally settling on the latter
50	HBO 3	A companion network to HBO and HBO2, rebranded as HBO Signature with programming shifting focus towards movies, shows and specials targeting female audiences
51/4	WSFJ Ch. 51 (Independent) Newark-Columbus	Now a Bounce TV O&O, owned by The E. W. Scripps Company, license move to London, Ohio in 2018
52/17	QVC	One of America's two major home shopping television networks, the other being HSN
53/9	WWHO Ch. 53 (WB/UPN) Columbus	Now a CW affiliate, sister to ABC affiliate WSYX and TBD/Antenna TV O&O WTTE
54	Country Music Television	Programming consisting of country music and lifestyle with some country-themed reality shows added in recent years, now just simply as CMT
55	The Sci-Fi Channel	Programming focused primarily on fantasy, horror and science fiction, now as SYFY
56/36	Black Entertainment Television	Then and now, still carries programming heavily targeting African American audiences, though it nowadays goes only by the acronym BET
57	Turner Classic Movies	A classic movie channel with films from Warner Bros. films released before 1950 and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films released before May 1986 as well as the entire RKO Pictures film library
58	Q2	A spin-off and companion network to QVC, defunct and replaced by the similarly named QVC2
59/96	The Box	A defunct music video channel, replaced by MTV2
60	ITO	Unknown, a pay-per-view channel
61	The History Channel	Originally focused on history-based documentaries, The History Channel (now known simply as History) shifted focus significantly towards reality television programming by the late 2000s
62	Cable Video Store #4	A defunct pay-per-view channel, replaced by iN DEMAND
63	Cable Video Store #5	A defunct pay-per-view channel, replaced by iN DEMAND
64	Cable Video Store #6	A defunct pay-per-view channel, replaced by iN DEMAND
65	Free Previews	A pay-per-view barker channel, unknown if this was Sneak Prevue
66	Starz!	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows and documentaries, owned by Lionsgate (Albeit with the exclamation point (!) removed from its name, now Starz)
67/63	Nick at Nite's TV Land	Classic television shows, a standalone companion network to Nick at Nite, though nowadays simply as TV Land
68/64	Cartoon Network	Originally consisted of cartoons 24 hours a day, the network has occasionally added live-action programming into its lineups as well
69/65	Plex: Encore 1	A premium pay subscription movie channel, now operates as MoviePlex
70	Independent Film Channel	Originally devoted to independent films, now more of a general entertainment channel as IFC