List of Streator TV Cable channels (October 1980)

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Streator TV Cable Company was a local cable company in Streator, Illinois, whose customers had access to 12 channels in October of 1980. Streator is now serviced by Mediacom. (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 Chicago and Peoria-Bloomington television markets, 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.

Markets

• NOTE: The city limits of Streator¹ spans between the Chicago and Peoria-Bloomington television markets, which consist of a combined total of 26 counties in Illinois and Indiana, with market hubs in bold text.

Chicago

• Illinois:
  • Counties: Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, ¹LaSalle, McHenry and Will
  • Cities: Addison, Alden, Algonquin, Alsip, Antioch, Arlington Heights, Aurora, Bannockburn, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Bartlett, Batavia, Beach Park, Bensenville, Berwyn, Big Rock, Bloomingdale, Blue Island, Bolingbrook, Bourbonnais, Bradley, Braidwood, Bristol, Buckley, Buffalo Grove, Bull Valley, Burbank, Burlington, Burr Ridge, Calumet City, Carol Stream, Cary, Channahon, Chebanse, Chemung, Chicago, Chicago Heights, Cicero, Cissna Park, Clarendon Hills, Clifton, Coal City, Coral, Cortland, Crest Hill, Crete, Crystal Lake, Cuba, Darien, Deer Park, Deerfield, DeKalb, Des Plaines, Dolton, Downers Grove, Earlville, East Dundee, Elburn, Elgin, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Evanston, Forest Lake, Fort Sheridan, Fox Lake, Fox Lake Hills, Fox River Grove, Fox River Valley Gardens, Frankfort, Franklin Park, Fremont Center, Gages Lake, Gardner, Geneva, Genoa, Gilberts, Gilman, Glen Ellyn, Glencoe, Glendale Heights, Glenview, Grand Ridge, Grayslake, Green Oaks, Greenwood, Gurnee, Hampshire, Hartland, Harvard, Harvey, Hawthorn Woods, Hazel Crest, Hebron, Herscher, Highland Park, Highwood, Hinckley, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Homewood, Huntley, Ingleside, Island Lake, Itasca, Johnsburg, Joliet, Kanesville, Kankakee, Kildeer, Kirkland, La Grange, La Grange Park, Lake Barrington, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Lake in the Hills, Lake Villa, Lake Zurich, Lakemoor, Lakewood, Lakewood Shores, Lansing, LaSalle, Leland, Lemont, Libertyville, Lily Lake, Lincolnshire, Lincolnwood, Lindenhurst, Lisle, Little Rock, Lockport, Lombard, Long Grove, Long Lake, Lostant, Lynwood, Malta, Manteno, Maple Park, Marseilles, Maywood, McCullom Lake, McHenry, Medinah, Medota, Melrose Park, Milford, Minooka, Mokena, Momence, Montgomery, Morris, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Mundelein, Naperville, Naplate, New Lenox, Niles, Norridge, North Aurora, North Barrington, North Chicago, North Plato, Northbrook, Northville, Oak Brook, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Oakbrook Terrace, Oakwood Hills, Oglesby, Onarga, Orland Park, Oswego, Ottawa, Otto, Palatine, Palos Heights, Palos Hills, Palos Park, Park City, Park Forest, Park Ridge, Peru, Pistakee Highlands, Plainfield, Plano, Plato Center, Prairie Grove, Prospect Heights, Richmond, Richton Park, Riley, Ringwood, River Grove, Riverwoods, Robbins, Romeoville, Roselle, Round Lake, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Park, Sandwich, Schaumburg, Schiller Park, Seneca, Shabbona, Sheldon, Sheridan, Shorewood, Skokie, Sleepy Hollow, Somonauk, South Barrington, South Elgin, South Hollland, South Ottawa, Spring Grove, St. Anne, St. Charles, Steger, Streamwood, Streator, Sugar Grove, Summit, Summit Argo, Sunnyside, Sycamore, Third Lake, Tinley Park, Tonica, Tower Lake, Union, University Park, Utica, Venetian Village, Vernon Hills, Villa Park, Virgil, Wadsworth, Warrenville, Waterman, Watseka, Wauconda, Waukegan, Wauponsee, Wayne, West Chicago, West Dundee, Westmont, Wheaton, Wheeling, Willowbrook, Wilmette, Wilmington, Winfield, Winnetka, Winthrop Harbor, Wonder Lake, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock, York Center, Yorkfield, Yorkville and Zion
• Indiana:
  • Counties: Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton and Porter
  • Cities: Beaver City, Brook, Cedar Lake, Chesterton, Collegeville, Crown Point, Dyer, East Chicago, Gary, Goodland, Hammond, Hebron, Highland, Hobart, Hudson Lake, Kankakee, Kentland, Kingsford Heights, Kouts, La Porte, Lake Station, Long Beach, Lowell, Merrillville, Michigan City, Morocco, Munster, North Marion, Portage, Porter, Remington, Rensselaer, Schererville, South Haven, St. John, Union Center, Valparaiso, Wanatah and Westville

Peoria-Bloomington

• Illinois:
  • Counties: Fulton, ¹Livingston, Marshall, Mason, McLean, Peoria, Putnam, Stark, Tazewell and Woodford
  • Cities: Abingdon, Altona, Astoria, Avon, Bath, Bloomington, Bradford, Brimfield, Canton, Cazenovia, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Chillicothe, Colfax, Cornell, Cruger, Cuba, Cullom, Danvers, Delavan, Downs, Dunlap, Dwight, East Galesburg, East Peoria, El Paso, Empire, Eureka, Fairbury, Fairview, Farmington, Flanagan, Forrest, Galesburg, Germantown Hills, Glasford, Green Valley, Gridley, Groveland, Hanna City, Havana, Henderson Grove, Henry, Heyworth, Hollis, Hopedale, Hudson, Ipava, Kilbourne, Knoxville, Lacon, Le Roy, Lewistown, Lexington, London Mills, Mackinaw, Manito, Marquette Heights, Mason City, McLean, Minier, Minonk, Morton, Normal, Odell, Oneida, Ontario, Osceola, Pekin, Peoria, Peoria Heights, Pontiac, Princeville, Randolph, Reading, Roanoke, Rome, San Jose, Saybrook, Smithfield, South Pekin, St. David, Stanford, Table Grove, Toluca, Tremont, Trivoli, Vermont, Washburn, Washington, Wataga, Wenona, West Hallock, Williamsfield, Wyoming and Yates City

Lineup

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

CH#	Names	Notes/Today
2	2  WBBM-TV Chicago	Then and now, still a CBS network owned-and-operated station (Owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations division of Paramount Global)
3	3  WCIA Champaign	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate  49  WCIX (out of Springfield) by Nexstar Media Group)
4	CATV-TV	Unknown, likely defunct, program fare unknown at this time
5	5  WMAQ-TV Chicago	Then and now, still an NBC network owned-and-operated station (Co-owned alongside Telemundo network O&O  44  WSNS-TV by NBCUniversal)
6	25  WEEK-TV Peoria	Currently a combination NBC, ABC and CW+ affiliate (Owned and operated by Gray Television, WEEK-TV assumed the ABC and CW+ affiliations from  19  WHOI in August of 2016, those networks are on WEEK's second and third digital subchannels respectively)
7	7  WLS-TV Chicago	Then and now, still an ABC network owned-and-operated station (Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, one of the original network O&Os alongside WABC-TV in New York City, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KGO-TV in San Francisco and WXYZ-TV in Detroit, all of them also on  7 , WXYZ was later sold to current owner, The E. W. Scripps Company in 1986)
8	31  WMBD-TV Peoria	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate (Owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group, which also operates Fox affiliate  43  WYZZ-TV (out of Bloomington), owned by Cunningham Broadcasting)
9	9  WGN-TV Chicago	Then and now, still an independent station (Now owned by Nexstar Media Group, its later cable counterpart, WGN America, has since been rebranded and relaunched as NewsNation)
10	19  WRAU-TV Peoria	Now a TBD network owned-and-operated station as WHOI (Owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, call letters changed to the current WHOI in 1985, its ABC affiliation was moved to the second subchannel of NBC affiliate  25  WEEK-TV in August of 2016)
11	11  WTTW Chicago	Then and now, still a PBS member station (Owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc.)
12	44  WSNS-TV Chicago	Now a Telemundo network owned-and-operated station (Co-owned alongside NBC network O&O  5  WMAQ-TV by NBCUniversal)
13	32  WFLD Chicago	Now a Fox network owned-and-operated station (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV O&O  50  WPWR-TV (out of Gary, Indiana) by Fox Television Stations)