List of Cooke Cablevision channels (Sitka, December 1987)

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Cooke Cablevision customers in Sitka, Alaska, had access to 27 channels in December of 1987. Cooke was a cable television services provider founded and owned by late Canadian-American businessman Jack Kent Cooke (1912-1997), who also once owned the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (winning an NBA championship in 1972), the Washington Redskins (now Commanders) of the National Football League, winning three Super Bowls (XVII, XXII and XXVI) under Hall of Fame head coach (and also Hall of Fame NASCAR team owner) Joe Gibbs and founded the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. Cooke sold the teams and the cable company off and all assets pertaining to Cooke Cablevision are now owned by Comcast, which operates as Xfinity. Today, the city is serviced by a local company, GCI based out of Anchorage. (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 Juneau 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 Juneau television market includes (at least parts of) 10 boroughs in Alaska, with market hubs in bold text:

• Boroughs: Haines, Hoonah-Angoon, Juneau, Ketchikan Gateway, Petersburg, Prince of Wales-Hyder, Sitka, Skagway, Wrangell and Yukutat (portions)
• Cities: Angoon, Hollis, Hoonah, Juneau, Ketchikan, Lutak, Mud Bay, Naukati Bay, Port Alexander, Sitka, Skagway, Wrangell and Yakutat

Lineup

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

CH#	Name	Notes
2	Alaska Satellite Project	Little is known of the channel at this time
3	2  KTOO-TV Juneau	Still a PBS member station to this day (Owned by Capital Community Broadcasting, Inc. and operated by Alaska Public Media as a full-time satellite of  7  KAKM out of Anchorage)
4	4  WDIV-TV Detroit, MI	Still an NBC affiliate to this day, owned by Graham Media Group (There was NO over-the-air affiliate in the market at the time,  2  KATH-LD in Juneau and its Sitka translator  2  KSCT-LP were NOT yet on the air until August of 1998 and May of 1995 respectively, and did NOT join NBC until KATH itself went to air, WDIV-TV, like the other Detroit stations on distant American and Canadian cable systems outside of the market were fed live through satellite uplink services provided by CANCOM)
5	17  WTBS Atlanta, GA	The direct OTA feed at the time, now as WPCH-TV, owned by Gray Television (Both the station and the TBS network (short for Turner Broadcasting System), were separated from each other in 2007, TBS today, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery)
6	13  KTNL-TV Juneau	Current status unknown at this time (CBS programming is currently provided via  2  KSCT-LP, in turn fed in through  5  KAUU out of Anchorage (though mapped separately as  5-1 ), both stations are owned by Gray Television)
7	USA Network	Then and now, still a general entertainment and sports channel, now owned by NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast
8	Nickelodeon	Today owned by Paramount Global, schedule 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, owned by Paramount Global
9	Cable News Network	CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel, owned by CNN Global, itself a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery
10	CBN	CBN Cable Network was spun off by the Christian Broadcasting Network and operates today as Freeform, owned by The Walt Disney Company
11	American Movie Classics	The flagship network of AMC Networks (Today operates only by the acronym AMC, shifted from originally exclusively classic movies (as a pay subscription channel) towards movies, shows and original programming (as a general cable channel)
12	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%)
13	Scanner	Status unknown at this time, likely defunct
14	9  WWOR-TV Secaucus, NJ	Now a MyNetworkTV O&O and flagship, owned by Fox Television Stations in a duopoly with Fox network flagship  5  WNYW in New York City
15	7  WXYZ-TV Detroit, MI	Then and now, still, an ABC network affiliate owned by The E. W. Scripps Company (Sister station to independent station WMYD, was an original ABC O&O station alongside WABC-TV in New York City, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, WLS-TV in Chicago and KGO-TV in San Francisco (all of which also on  7 ) until it was sold in 1986, chosen over local affiliate  8  KJUD for reasons unknown, WXYZ-TV, like the other Detroit stations on distant American and Canadian cable systems outside of the market were fed live through satellite uplink services provided by CANCOM)
16	24-Hour Weather	Status unknown, likely defunct (NO relation to The Weather Channel, already on the air by that time)
17	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by Paramount Global
18	The Disney Channel	Once a premium pay subscription channel, now a general cable channel known only as Disney, owned by The Walt Disney Company
19	Lifetime	Programming geared towards women and women in lead roles of movies and shows (Owned by A&E Networks, a 50-50 joint venture between the Hearst Communications and Disney General Entertainment Content, a division of The Walt Disney Company)
20	Home Box Office	A premium pay subscription network, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Home Box Office is still used as the network's legal corporate name, though it operates on-air and online exclusively by the acronym HBO)
21	Arts & Entertainment	Once a channel focused on arts and history, the channel has shifted significantly towards reality shows, dramas and documentaries, now known only as A&E (The flagship network of A&E Networks, a 50-50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and Disney General Entertainment Content, a division of The Walt Disney Company)
22	Cinemax	A premium pay subscription channel with mainstream, independent and original shows, movies and documentaries (Sister and companion network to HBO, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery)
23	Music Television	Now known only as MTV, owned by Paramount Global, 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
24	The Nashville Network (TNN)	A channel once focused on country music and lifestyle, it now operates as a general entertainment channel as Paramount Network, owned by Paramount Global
25	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, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
26	C-SPAN	A channel entirely focused on federal government and public affairs pertaining to the United States House of Representatives, including live coverage of proceedings (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	The Discovery Channel	Still operates today with a program mix of technology, science, nature and reality, and its name shortened to just Discovery (also occasionally known as Discovery Channel) (Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
27	Video Hits One	Now known exclusively as VH1, owned by Paramount Global (Much like its sister network, MTV, it has also shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas and other acquired programming in recent years)
28	Tempo Television	Previously known as the Satellite Program Network, sold to NBC in April of 1989 (Converted into as relaunched as the Consumer News and Business Channel (now known only as CNBC), split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	Financial News Network	Financial, consumer and business news and stocks (Sold to NBC and integrated into CNBC in 1991, split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)