List of South Dakota Cable TV channels (Deadwood, November 1969)

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South Dakota Cable TV customers in Deadwood and Lead, South Dakota were offered access to 8 channels in November of 1969. Today, services are handled by Midco, a joint venture between Midcontinent Media (51%) and Comcast (49%).

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 Rapid City 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 Rapid City television market includes 16 counties in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming, with the market hubs listed in bold text:

• Montana:
  • Counties: Carter
  • Cities: Albion, Ekalaka, Hammond and Ridgeway
• South Dakota:
  • Counties: Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, Perkins and Ziebach
  • Cities: Allen, Ardmore, Argyle, Ashland Heights, Batesland, Belle Fourche, Belvidere, Billsburg, Bixby, Blackpipe, Buffalo, Creighton, Coal Springs, Cottonwood, Creston, Custer, Deadwood, Denby, Dupree, Edgemont, Elm Springs, Englewood, Enning, Glad Valley, Green Valley, Hermosa, Hot Springs, Imlay, Imogene, Kadoka, Keystone, Kirley, Lead, Lodgepole, Ludlow, Martin, Maverick Junction, Midland, Milesville, Oglala, Ottumwa, Piedmont, Pine Ridge, Plainview, Provo, Quinn, Rapid City, Rapid Valley, Red Elm, Reva, Rumford, Shadehill, Sharps Corner, Smithwick, Spearfish, Stamford, Sturgis, Summerset, Tilford, Wanblee, Whitewood and Wicksville
• Wyoming:
  • Counties: Crook and Weston
  • Cities: Aladdin, Bentley, Buckhorn, Colony, Fairview, Four Corners, Hill View Heights, Hulett, Linden, Moorcroft, Newcastle, New Haven, Osage, Sundance and Upton

Lineup

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

CH#	Names	Notes/Today
2	2  KTWO-TV Casper, WY	Nowadays solely and exclusively an ABC affiliate (Owned by Vision Alaska LLC and operated by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, which already owns Fox affiliate  20  KFNB and already operates CBS affiliate  14  KGWC-TV, which took that network's affiliation from KTWO-TV when it signed onto the air in August of 1980, additionally,  13  KCWY (now KCWY-DT) assumed the NBC affiliation in September of 2003)
4	3  KOTA-TV Rapid City	Now a MeTV affiliate, now as KHME on  23 , owned by Gray Television (Gray moved the intellectual properties of the station and its ABC affiliation to  7  KEVN-TV and converted it to the new, modern-day KOTA-TV on  3  in February of 2016)
6	4  KOA-TV Denver, CO	Now a CBS network owned-and-operated station as KCNC-TV, owned by Paramount Global (General Electric would acquire KOA-AM-FM-TV in 1968 before selling off the radio stations (now KOA 850 AM and KRFX 103.5 FM) in 1983 with the KCNC-TV call letters installed around that same time, GE then acquired NBC through its reacquisition of RCA in 1986, making KCNC a network owned-and-operated station, only to be sold again (along with  2  KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah) to CBS in exchange for  10  WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of a major mass reaffiliation deal that actually began in 1994)
7	7  KRSD-TV Rapid City	Defunct, the station left the air and ceased operations in February of 1976 (KEVN-TV signed onto the air in July of that same year and assumed the former's ABC affiliation and later switched to NBC in 1984 and then to Fox in 1996, KEVN's intellectual properties and affiliation were transferred to a low-power station, KEVN-LD, again on  7  after it assumed the intellectual assets and the ABC affiliation of the former KOTA as KOTA-TV on  3 , the former KOTA is now MeTV affiliate KHME on  23  and all three stations are owned by Gray Television)
8	9  KBTV Denver, CO	Now an NBC affiliate as KUSA (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate  20  KTVD by Tegna Inc.)
9	9  KBHE-TV Rapid City	Then and now, still a PBS member station (NET was relaunched as PBS in 1970, KBHE-TV is an affiliate of South Dakota Public Broadcasting, a network of PBS stations throughout South Dakota, with  2  KUSD-TV in Vermillion (serving Sioux Falls) as its flagship)
10	9  KWGN-TV Denver, CO	Now a CW network owned-and-operated station (Co-owned alongside Fox affiliate  31  KDVR by Nexstar Media Group)
13	24-Hour Weather and Music	Defunct, predating The Weather Channel by roughly 12½ years