List of Orangeburg Cable TV channels (February 1986)

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Orangeburg Cable TV subscribers in Orangeburg, South Carolina had access to the channels listed below in February of 1986. Charter Spectrum handles services for the city nowadays.

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 local in-market stations, according to current laws by the FCC and mapping of markets by Nielsen Media Research
•  ##  — 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

Lineup

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

CH#	Name	Notes/Today
2	2  WCBD-TV (ABC) Charleston	Swapped network affiliations with  4  WCIV and became the current NBC affiliate in September of 1996 (The ABC affiliation and intellectual unit of WCIV (now WGWG) was integrated into the second subchannel of MyNetworkTV affiliate  36  WMMP, which would also recycle the WCIV call letters as well by the end of 2014, WCBD is owned by Nexstar Media Group)
3	17  WTBS (Ind.) Atlanta, Georgia	The direct feed of the OTA station at the time, now as WPCH-TV, owned by Gray Television (Both the station and the TBS network were separated from each other in 2007, TBS today, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery)
4	4  WCIV (NBC) Charleston	Swapped affiliations with  2  WCBD-TV, becoming an ABC affiliate in September of 1996 (The ABC affiliation and intellectual unit of WCIV (now WGWG) was integrated into the second subchannel of MyNetworkTV affiliate  36  WMMP, which would also recycle the WCIV call letters as well by the end of 2014, the modern-day WCIV is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and also operates Fox affiliate  24  WTAT-TV owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and WGWG (now an Heroes & Icons affiliate) which is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings)
5	5  WCSC-TV (CBS) Charleston	Still a CBS affiliate, owned by Gray Television
6	6  WJBF (ABC) Augusta, Georgia	Still an ABC affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group
7	10  WIS-TV (NBC) Columbia	Currently a dual NBC and CW affiliate, owned by Gray Television (Still as WIS, though without the "-TV" suffix, which was removed from the call letters in 1992)
8	19  WLTX (CBS) Columbia	Still a CBS affiliate, owned by Tegna (Sale of both WLTX and parent company Tegna to Standard General still awaiting regulatory approval as of September 2022)
9	9  WGN-TV (Ind.) Chicago, Illinois	The direct OTA feed 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)
10	Cable News Network	CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
11	25  WOLO-TV (ABC) Columbia	Still an ABC affiliate, owned by Bahakel Communications
12	12  WRDW-TV (CBS) Augusta, Georgia	Currently a dual CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate, owned Gray Television (Sister station to dual NBC and CW affiliate  26  WAGT-CD, launched as independent W67BE in 1987, which acquired the NBC affiliation and non-license assets of the former, now-defunct WAGT on June 1, 2017)
13	35  WRLK-TV (PBS) Columbia	WRLK-TV is the flagship station of South Carolina Educational Television, a network of PBS stations
16	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)
17	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel
20	Home Box Office	A premium subscription network, still operates today by its acronym HBO, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Home Box Office is still used as the network's legal corporate name)
21	The Movie Channel	A premium pay subscription channel with classic, mainstream and independent movies (Sister and companion network to Showtime, owned by Paramount Global)
22	ESPN	A 24-hour channel devoted to local, regional, national and international sports (Owned as a joint venture between Hearst Communications at 80% and The Walt Disney Company at 20%)
23	USA Network	Then and now, a general entertainment and sports channel, now owned by NBCUniversal
24	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
25	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
26	Financial News Network	Financial, consumer and business news and stocks, sold to NBC and absorbed/integrated into CNBC in 1991 (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	Black Entertainment Television	Then and now, still carries programming heavily targeting African-American audiences, though it nowadays goes only by the acronym BET, owned by Paramount Global (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
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 (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	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, split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
28	CBN	CBN Cable Network was spun off by the Christian Broadcasting Network and operates today as Freeform, owned by The Walt Disney Company