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List of Continental Cablevision channels (Inver Grove Heights, January 1992)
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Continental Cablevision customers in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota had access to the channels listed below in January of 1992. Continental was later acquired by US WEST and was subsequently renamed MediaOne. Media One Group, the former US WEST, was then acquired by AT&T Broadband in 2002, which in turn was subsequently acquired by Comcast in 2002 and operates today as Xfinity, which still services the town to this very day.
| CH# | Name | Notes/Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | KTCA Ch. 2 (PBS) St. Paul | Still a PBS member station, one of two in the market, the other being sister KTCI |
| 3 | Cable News Network | CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel |
| 4 | WCCO Ch. 4 (CBS) Minneapolis | Would be acquired by CBS directly later in the year, still a network O&O to this day |
| 5 | KSTP Ch. 5 (ABC) St. Paul | Still an ABC affiliate, sister to independent station KSTC |
| 7 | ESPN | Owned as a joint venture between Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | KMSP Ch. 9 (Independent) Minneapolis | Would become a charter UPN affiliate before swapping networks with now-sister WFTC in 2002, becoming a Fox affiliate, KMSP remains a Fox O&O to this day |
| 10 | Citivision | Little is known of this channel at this time |
| 11 | KARE Ch. 11 (NBC) Minneapolis | Still an NBC affiliate |
| 12 | USA Network | Today owned by NBCUniversal |
| 13 | WGN Ch. 9 (Independent) Chicago, Illinois | The direct feed of the OTA station at the time, its later cable counterpart, WGN America, was rebranded as NewsNation |
| 14 | The Weather Channel | Weather forecasting and science and in recent years, weather related shows and documentaries as well |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Arts & Entertainment (A&E) | Once a channel focused on arts and history, the channel has shifted significantly towards reality shows, dramas and documentaries |
| 17 | KTCI Ch. 17 (PBS) St. Paul | Still a PBS member station, one of two in the market, the other being sister KTCA |
| 18 | City Government Television | A local cable channel on local affairs, unknown whether or not the modern-day Minneapolis City Council TV is related |
| 19 | NDC | Unknown |
| 20 | Lifetime | Programming geared towards women and women in lead roles of movies and shows |
| 21 | The Nashville Network (TNN) | A channel once focused on country music and lifestyle, it now operates as a general entertainment channel as Paramount Network |
| 22 | The Discovery Channel | Still operates today with a program mix of technology, science, nature and reality, and its name shortened to just Discovery |
| 23 | KTMA Ch. 23 (Independent) Minneapolis | Would later a charter WB affiliate as KLGT and then KMWB before becoming the current CW affiliate as WUCW |
| 24 | Home Shopping Network | Now known only by the acronym HSN, one of America's two major home shopping networks, the other being QVC |
| 25 | Value TV | Unknown, possibly a home shopping channel |
| 26 | 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 | |
| 27 | Black Entertainment Television | Then and now, still carries programming heavily targeting African-American audiences, though it nowadays goes only by the acronym BET |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | KITN Ch. 29 (Fox) Minneapolis | Call letters changed to WFTC in 1994 and remained a Fox affiliate until 2002 when it swapped networks with now-sister KMSP and became a UPN affiliate, now a MyNetworkTV O&O |
| 30 | C-SPAN | A channel entirely focused on government and public affairs |
| 31 | C-SPAN2 | A channel entirely focused on government and public affairs |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | QVC | One of America's two major home shopping television networks, the other being HSN |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | 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 |
| 40 | Music Television (MTV) | Owned by ViacomCBS, like VH1, it too has shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas in recent years |
| 41 | Consumer News and Business Channel | Still operates today, but only by the acronym CNBC |
| 43 | Univision | The leading major Hispanic television network in the United States with telenovelas (soap operas) and other shows predominantly from Mexico-based Televisa (Local affiliate WUMN was NOT on the air until 2005) |
| 46 | Bravo | Originally focused on film and performing arts (as a premium pay subscription channel), the channel has shifted towards lifestyle and reality shows as well as programming themed around the LGBTQ community (as a general cable channel) |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | Showtime | A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by ViacomCBS |
| 49 | The Movie Channel | Sister network to Showtime, owned by ViacomCBS |
| 50 | Cinemax | Sister network to HBO, owned by WarnerMedia |
| 51 | The Disney Channel | Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel |
| 52 | Viewer's Choice | A Pay-Per-View channel, now operating as iN DEMAND |
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| 55 | 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) |
| 56 | Eternal Word Television Network | Now only by the acronym EWTN, programming focused around the Catholic Church |
| 57 | The Travel Channel | Features documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world |
| 58 | The Learning Channel | Initially focused on educational and learning content, by the late 1990s the network began to primarily focus towards reality series involving lifestyles, family life, and personal stories as TLC |
| 59 | Prime Sports Upper Midwest | Defunct, a local and regional sports network, replaced by Midwest Sports Channel, which operates today as Bally Sports North |
| 60 | Viewer's Choice Previews | A preview/barker channel of current and upcoming pay-per-view movies, events and specials, unclear whether or not this was Sneak Prevue |
| 61 | NASA TV | Owned by NASA, it carries educational programs as well as live coverage of an array of manned missions (including the International Space Station), robotic missions, and domestic and international launches |