List of Home Cable Channels (Mountain Home, November 1978)

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Home Cable Company customers in Mountain Home, Arkansas had access to 8 TV channels and 7 FM radio stations (all but one over-the-air) in November of 1978. Today, Mountain Home is serviced by Optimum. (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 Springfield-Branson 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.

Market

The Springfield-Branson television market includes 31 counties in Arkansas and Missouri with market hubs in bold text:

Arkansas:
- Counties: Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Marion and Newton
- Cities: Alpena, Batavia, Bellefonte, Bergman, Berryville, Bexar, Briarcliff, Bruno, Buffalo City, Buford, Bull Shoals, Busch, Cabanal, Camp, Capps, Carrollton, Clarkridge, Compton, Cotter, Diamond City, Dodd City, Dogpatch, Elizabeth, Eros, Eureka Springs, Everton, Flippin, Gaither, Gamaliel, Gassville, Gepp, Glencoe, Grandview, Green Forest, Harrison, Hasty, Holiday Island, Hopewell, Jasper, Jordan, Limestone, Marble Falls, Metalton, Midway, Mountain Home, Norfolk, Oak Grove, Olvey, Omaha, Osage, Parthenon, Peel, Piercetown, Pleasant Valley, Ponca, Pyatt, Rea Valley, Salesville, Sturkie, Summit, Urbanette, Valley Springs, Vendor, Viola, Wayton, Wheeling, Willis and Yellville
Missouri:
- Counties: Barry, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Greene, Hickory, Howell, Laclede, Lawrence, Oregon, Ozark, Polk, Pulaski, St. Clair, Shannon, Stone, Taney, Texas, Webster and Wright
- Cities: Abo, Adonis, Albatross, Aldrich, Alley Spring, Antrim, Anutt, Appleton City, Arcola, Arden, Arno, Arrow Point, Ash Grove, Astoria, Aurora, Ava, Avery, Bartlett, Battlefield, Bearcreek, Bidwell, Big Creek, Billings, Bloodland, Boaz, Bois D'Arc, Bolivar, Bona, Boyd, Bradleyville, Branch, Branson, Branson West, Buckhorn, Bucyrus, Buffalo, Butterfield, Cabool, Camdenton, Cape Fair, Caplinger Mills, Carson, Cassville, Cave Spring, Cedar Ridge, Cedar Springs, Chadwick, Cherokee Homestead Village, China, Clever, Cliquot, Collins, Conway, Cookville, Corsicana, Crane, Crocker, Cross Timbers, Dadeville, Dawson, Dawt, Decaturville, Delaware, Dermott, Diggins, Dixon, Doss, Drury, Dunn, Eagle Rock, Ebenezer, El Dorado Springs, Elkland, Elkton, Elsey, Elwood, Emerald Beach, Eudora, Eunice, Evans, Everton, Exeter, Fair Grove, Fordland, Forsyth, Freistatt, Fremont Hills, Friedenswald, Fristoe, Galena, Gainesville, Gaither, Galmey, Garrison, Gascozark, Gentryville, Gerster, Gladden, Golden, Goodson, Grays Point, Greenfield, Greenview, Halfway, Hartville, Hermitage, Highlandville, Hilda, Hollister, Houston, Humansville, Hurley, Hutton Valley, Iconium, Jadwin, Jenkins, Jerico Springs, Jordan, Kimberling City, Kimble, Lakeview Heights, Lampe, Laquey, Lawrenceburg, Lebanon, Lecoma, Licking, Lincoln, Lockwood, Longrun, Louisburg, Lowry City, Lynchburg, Mansfield, Marionville, Marshfield, McDowell, McKinley, Merriam Woods, Midridge, Miller, Mincy, Monegaw Springs, Monett, Morgan, Mountain Grove, Mountain View, Nebo, Niangua, Nixa, Northview, Norwood, Odin, Ohio, Oldfield, Omba, Osceola, Ozark, Phelps, Phillipsburg, Pierce City, Pittsburg, Plano, Pleasant Hope, Pleasant Ridge, Pomona, Pontiac, Pottersville, Preston, Pulaskifield, Purdy, Quincy, Radar, Raymondville, Republic, Reuter, Richland, Ridgedale, Roby, Rockbridge, Rogersville, Rowland, Saddlebrooke, Salem, Sampson, Seligman, Seymour, Simmons, Sligo, South Greenfield, Sparta, Spencer, Spokane, Springfield, Squires, Stockton, Stotts City, Strafford, Swedeborg, Sycamore, Taberville, Taneyville, Tecumseh, Thayer, Thomasville, Thornfield, Tunas, Tyrone, Udall, Umber View Heights, Upton, Urbana, Vanzant, Venice, Verona, Viola, Vista, Waldo, Walnut Grove, Warsaw, Washburn, Wayne, Weaubleau, West Bend, West Plains, Wheatland, Whitakerville, White City, White Cloud, Willard, Willhoit, Willow Springs, Windyville, Winnipeg, Winona, Wishart, Woodside, Yonkerville, Yukon, Zanoni and Zenda

Lineup

TV Channels

Source: Newspapers.com (Paid subscription to "Publisher Extra" may be required for some sections)
CH#	Name	Notes/Today
2	27 KMTC Springfield, MO	Now a MyNetworkTV affiliate (Co-owned alongside Fox affiliate 49 KRBK-TV (out of Osage Beach) by Nexstar Media Group, was the market's original Fox affiliate as KDEB-TV and then KSFX-TV until 2011, its former ABC affiliation went to then-independent 33 KSPR (now defunct as KGHZ, last on 15 ) in 1986 until May 2017, when its intellectual properties and the affiliation were transferred to another station, KSPR-LD, now on 33 )
3	3 KYTV Springfield, MO	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate (Co-owned alongside ABC affiliate 33 KSPR-LD and CW affiliate 24 KYCW-LD (out of Branson) by Gray Television)
4	4 KARK-TV Little Rock	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate 42 KARZ-TV by Nexstar Media Group, which also operates Fox affiliate 16 KLRT-TV and CW affiliate 38 KASN (out of Pine Bluff) by Mission Broadcasting)
7	7 KATV Little Rock	Then and now, still an ABC affiliate (Owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, KATV is the oldest active television station in the state of Arkansas)
8	21 KOZK Springfield, MO	Then and now, still a PBS member station (Owned and operated by Missouri State University, KOZK also operates a full-time satellite station, 26 KOZJ in Joplin, both stations operate under the name Ozarks Public Television)
9	Time, Weather and Music	Defunct, likely a teletext channel with weather conditions and forecasts and the actual time with music playing in the background (Predates The Weather Channel, which was launched in May of 1982)
10	10 KOLR-TV Springfield, MO	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate (The "-TV" suffix removed from the call letters in 1985, now as KOLR, owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar Media Group, which owns and operates MyNetworkTV affiliate 27 KOZL-TV and Fox affiliate 49 KRBK-TV, the latter licensed to Osage Beach)
11	11 KTHV Little Rock	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate, owned and operated by Tegna Inc.

FM Stations

Notes

A coaxial cable connection to an FM radio or stereo system was required to access these stations at that time.
CF is short for Cable Frequency, the channel accessible via coaxial cable.
RF is short for Radio Frequency, the over-the-air terrestrial channel assigned to the station.

Source: Newspapers.com (Paid subscription to "Publisher Extra" may be required for some sections)
CF	RF	Station	Format (in 1978)	Notes/Today
90.0		Taped Music	Unknown	Likely defunct
93.9	93.9	KWPM-FM West Plains, MO	Easy Listening	Classic rock as KSPQ, owned by Greg Hoskins (Doing business as Better Newspapers, Inc.)
94.7	94.7	KTTS-FM Springfield, MO	Country music	Then and now, still a country music station (Owned and operated by SummitMedia)
98.3	98.3	KTLO-FM Mountain Home	Middle of the road	Now with an adult standards format and now on 97.9 FM (Locally owned and operated by Mountain Lakes Broadcasting Corp.)
99.5	98.7	KWTO-FM Springfield, MO	Rock	Soft adult contemporary as KTXR (Owned and operated by Zimmer Radio of Mid-Missouri)
101.5	101.5	KTXR Springfield, MO	Easy Listening	Classic country as KWTO-FM, now on 101.3 FM (Now licensed to Buffalo, Missouri, owned and operated by Zimmer Radio of Mid-Missouri)
102.9	102.9	KHOZ Harrison	Adult contemporary	Country as KHBZ (Owned and operated by Ozark Mountain Media Group, LLC)