List of Jones Intercable channels (Naperville, October 1987)

Jones Intercable customers in Naperville, Illinois had access to the channels listed below in October of 1987. Today, Naperville's cable television services are handled by Comcast through Xfinity.

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CH#	Name	Notes/Today
2	WBBM Ch. 2 (CBS) Chicago	A CBS network owned-and-operated station, owned by ViacomCBS
5	WMAQ Ch. 5 (NBC) Chicago	An NBC network owned-and-operated station, owned by NBCUniversal and sister to Telemundo O&O WSNS
7	WLS Ch. 7 (ABC) Chicago	An ABC network owned-and-operated station, owned by The Walt Disney Company
8	ESPN	Owned as a joint venture between Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company
9	WGN Ch. 9 (Independent) Chicago	Would later become a charter affiliate of The WB and then The CW, now an independent once again
10	Turner Network Television (TNT)	Programming shifted from mostly classic movies towards drama movies and shows over the years with sporting events featured as well
11	WTTW Ch. 11 (PBS) Chicago	The primary of two PBS member stations in the Chicago market, the other station, being WYIN in Gary, Indiana, also WTTW is sister to FNX affiliate WYCC
12	Cable News Network	CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel
16	WGBO Ch. 66 (Independent) Joliet	Would become Chicago's Univision network owned-and-operated station starting in August of 1994, and later sister to UniMás O&O WXFT (WGBO continued to run English language programming while it waited for the network's contract with WCIU to expire, which wasn't until January 1, 1995)
18	WCFC Ch. 38 (Independent) Chicago	Once a religious independent, now an Ion network owned-and-operated station as WCPX, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company
19	Financial News Network (FNN)	Financial, consumer and business news and stocks, sold to NBC and absorbed/integrated into CNBC in 1991
	FNN Score	Sports programming from 6:00 pm to 1:00 am (Eastern Time) Weeknights (1985-1998) and 12:00 pm to 1:00 am on Weekends (1988-1991), shut down with NBC's integration of FNN into CNBC in 1991
20	WYCC Ch. 20 (PBS) Chicago	WYCC disaffiliated from PBS in 2017, subsequently went dark, before returning to the air as an FNX affiliate, sister to PBS station WTTW
21	Arts & Entertainment (A&E)	Once a channel focused on arts and history, the channel has shifted significantly towards reality shows, dramas and documentaries
22	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)
23	The Discovery Channel	Still operates today with a program mix of technology, science, nature and reality, and its name shortened to just Discovery
26	WCIU Ch. 26 (Independent) Chicago	Now the Chicago's market modern-day CW network affiliate (At the time, WCIU was also a part-time Telemundo affiliate, before programming moved to modern-day O&O WSNS)
28	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
29	WWOR Ch. 9 (Independent) Secaucus, New Jersey	Now a MyNetworkTV O&O, owned by Fox Television Stations in a duopoly with Fox network flagship WNYW in New York City (WWOR and WNYW are also sister stations to Fox O&O WFLD and MyNetworkTV O&O WPWR)
30	WPWR Ch. 50 (Independent) Gary, Indiana	Later a UPN affiliate, now a MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station, owned by Fox Television Stations, sister to Fox O&O WFLD
31	The Weather Channel	Weather forecasting and science and in recent years, weather related shows and documentaries as well
32	WFLD Ch. 32 (Fox) Chicago	A Fox network owned-and-operated station, owned by Fox Television Stations, sister to MyNetworkTV O&O WPWR
34	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
35	Cinemax	Sister network to HBO, owned by WarnerMedia
36	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by ViacomCBS
37	The Movie Channel	Sister network to Showtime, owned by ViacomCBS
38	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel
39	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)
40	The CBN Family Channel	Spun off by the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1990 and renamed The Family Channel, and then 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
41	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
43	Lifetime	Programming geared towards women and women in lead roles of movies and shows
44	C-SPAN	A channel entirely focused on government and public affairs
46	Music Television (MTV)	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
47	The Nashville Network (TNN)	A channel once focused on country music and lifestyle, it now operates as a general entertainment channel as Paramount Network
52	PTL	The network folded in 1989 and was relaunched in 2015, owned by televangelist Jim Bakker
56	Black Entertainment Television	Then and now, still carries programming heavily targeting African-American audiences, though it nowadays goes only by the acronym BET