List of Las Cruces TV Cable channels (April 1987)

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Las Cruces TV Cable was a local cable company in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Its customers had access to 39 channels in April of 1987. Today, Las Cruces is serviced by Comcast through Xfinity. (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 El Paso-Las Cruces 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 El Paso-Las Cruces television market includes 4 counties in New Mexico and Texas with market hubs in bold text, though its stations also service (at least portions of) 5 regional municipalities in Chihuahua, Mexico, those areas are NOT officially part of the market:

• Chihuahua:
  • Municipalities: Ahumada, Ascensión, Guadalupe, Juárez and Práxedis G. Guerrero
  • Cities: Bismarck, Bosque Bonito, Cajoncitos, Carrizal, Casas Grandes, Ciudad Juárez, La Amargosa, Las Cazuelas, Las Lechuzas, Las Palomas, Las Prietas, Lomas del Poleo, Moctezuma, Nuevo Holanda, Práxedis G. Guerrero, Rancho Los Lamentos, Sabinal, Samalayuca, San Gabriel, San Isidro, Sueco, Tolentino and Villa Ahumada
• New Mexico:
  • Counties: Doña Ana
  • Cities: Chaparral, Doña Ana, Garfield, Hatch, Las Cruces, Mesilla, Radium Springs, Salem, Santa Teresa, Sunland Park, Vado and White Sands
• Texas:
  • Counties: Culberson, El Paso and Hudspeth
  • Cities: Agua Dulce, Allamoore, Anthony, Canutillo, Cornudas, Dell City, El Paso, Fort Bliss, Fort Hancock, Mile High, Plateau, San Elizario, Sierra Blanca, Socorro, Sparks, Tornillo, Van Horn and Vinton

Lineup

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

CH#	Name	Notes/Today
1	C-SPAN2	Then and now, a public affairs channel with proceedings in the United States Senate
2	26  KINT-TV El Paso, TX	Now a Univision affiliate (SIN, short for Spanish International Network, was being relaunched as Univision around this time, KINT is co-owned alongside UniMás affiliate  65  KTFN by Entravision Communications)
3	22  KRWG-TV Las Cruces	Then and now, still a PBS member station (Owned by the Regents of New Mexico State University)
	HSN2	Defunct, another channel launched by HSN took on the name HSN2 in 2010 (Both HSN and HSN2 are owned by Qurate Retail Group, carried when  22  KRWG-TV was off the air)
4	4  KDBC-TV El Paso, TX	Currently a dual CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate (Co-owned alongside Fox affiliate  14  KFOX-TV (then known as KCIK-TV in 1987) by Sinclair Broadcast Group, KDBC-TV is also the oldest active television station in the market)
5	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
6	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%)
7	7  KVIA-TV El Paso, TX	Currently a dual ABC and CW affiliate (Owned and operated by News-Press & Gazette Company)
8	Cable News Network	Now operates only by the acronym CNN, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, an American multinational news channel, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
9	9  KTSM-TV El Paso, TX	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate (Owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group)
10	Music Television (MTV)	Owned by Paramount Global and known only as MTV, 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
11	USA Network	Then and now, a general entertainment and sports channel, now owned by NBCUniversal
12	17  WTBS Atlanta, GA	The direct OTA feed at the time, now as WPCH-TV (now a CW affiliate), 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, Gray also owns and operates CBS affiliate  46  WANF and Telemundo affiliate  47  WKTB-CD)
13	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
14	14  KCIK-TV El Paso, TX	Then and now, still a Fox affiliate, now as KFOX-TV (Co-owned alongside dual CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate  4  KDBC-TV by Sinclair Broadcast Group)
15	5  KTLA Los Angeles, CA	Now a CW network owned-and-operated station (Owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group)
16	11  KTTV Los Angeles, CA	Then and now, still the Fox network's West Coast flagship station (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV West Coast flagship  13  KCOP-TV by Fox Television Stations)
17	7  KOAT-TV Albuquerque	Then and now, still an ABC affiliate (Owned and operated by Hearst Television)
18	The Message Channel	Format and status unknown at this time
19	2  XEPM-TV Ciudad Juárez, CHH, MEX	Currently a network owned-and-operated station for Las Estrellas as XEPM-TDT (Owned by Televisa, it disaffiliated from the network in 2005 before rejoining it in 2015, the El Paso Times erroneously lists the station as XEMP and as being from Mexico City directly)
20	13  KCOS El Paso, TX	Then and now, still a PBS member station (Owned and operated by Texas Tech University)
21	48  KASK-TV Las Cruces	Now a Telemundo network owned-and-operated station as KTDO (Owned and operated by NBCUniversal)
22	9  WOR-TV Secaucus, NJ	Now the MyNetworkTV flagship station as WWOR-TV (Co-owned alongside Fox network flagship  5  WNYW in New York City by Fox Television Stations, call letters changed to the current WWOR-TV at the end of that month, the El Paso Times erroneously listed the station as still being from New York City, the license had been moved to Secaucus, New Jersey in 1983)
23	9  WGN-TV Chicago, IL	The direct feed of the OTA station at the time, then and now, an independent (Now owned by Nexstar Media Group, its later cable counterpart, WGN America, has since been rebranded and relaunched as NewsNation, the El Paso Times erroneously listed WGN as being from Boston, Massachusetts)
24	5  XEJ Ciudad Juárez, CHH, MEX	Now an independent station as XEJ-TDT, now on  50  (Carried programs from all four of Televisa's major television stations in Mexico City,  2  XEW-TV,  4  XHTV-TV,  5  XHGC and  9  XEQ-TV, the station is owned and operated by Televisión de la Frontera, S.A. de C.V., the El Paso Times erroneously listed XEJ as being from Mexico City directly)
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	CBN	CBN Cable Network was spun off by the Christian Broadcasting Network and operates today as Freeform, owned by The Walt Disney Company
27	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
28	C-SPAN	Then and now, a public affairs channel with proceedings in the United States House of Representatives
29	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 Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company)
30	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)
31	Home Shopping Network	One of America's two major home shopping television networks, now only as HSN (The other being QVC, both networks are owned by Qurate Retail Group)
32	The Weather Channel	Weather forecasting and science and in recent years, weather related shows and documentaries as well (Also with local weather alerts and local forecasts every ten minutes on the 8s of every hour, owned by Allen Media Group)
33	Financial News Network (FNN)	Financial, consumer and business news and stocks, sold to NBC and absorbed/integrated into CNBC in 1991, CNBC now owned by NBCUniversal
	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
34	Viewer's Choice	A Pay-Per-View channel, now operating as iN DEMAND
35	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by Paramount Global, now known as Paramount+ with Showtime
36	Home Box Office	A premium subscription network, still operates only as HBO, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Home Box Office is still used as the network's legal corporate name)
37	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)
38	The Movie Channel	A premium pay subscription channel with classic, mainstream and independent movies (Sister and companion network to Paramount+ with Showtime, owned by Paramount Global)
39	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel