List of Sunflower Cablevision channels (Lawrence, May 1990)

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Sunflower Cablevision customers in Lawrence, Kansas had access to the channels listed below. Today, Lawrence gets its cable services from Midco, a joint venture between Midcontinent Media, the majority owner at 51 percent and Comcast, the minority owner with the remaining 49 percent. (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 Kansas 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 Kansas City television market includes 33 counties in Kansas and Missouri, with market hubs in bold text:

• Kansas:
  • Counties: Anderson, Atchinson, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte
  • Cities: Atchinson, Bonner Springs, Kansas City, Kickapoo, Lancaster, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Olathe, Overland Park, Pleasant Grove, Prairie Village, Shawnee and Tonganoxie
• Missouri:
  • Counties: Bates, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Henry, Holt, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Nowaday, Pettis, Platte, Ray, Saline and Worth
  • Cities: Bethany, Carrollton, Chillicothe, Concordia, Gladstone, Independence, Kansas City, Lee's Summitt, Marshall, Missouri City, Platte City, Pleasant Hill, Pleasant Valley and Sedalia

Lineup

Source: YouTube

CH#	Name	Notes/Today
2	Turner Network Television	Programming shifted from mostly classic movies towards drama movies and shows over the years with sporting events featured as well, nowadays only by the name TNT, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
3	62  KZKC Kansas City, MO	Now a MyNetworkTV affiliate as KSMO-TV (Co-owned alongside CBS affiliate  5  KCTV by Gray Television)
4	4  WDAF-TV Kansas City, MO	Currently a Fox affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group (WDAF became the Fox affiliate in a major mass-affiliation deal starting in 1994, sending its former NBC affiliation to the then-Fox affiliate  41  KSHB-TV as a result, WDAF was network owned-and-operated from 1997 to 2008)
5	5  KCTV Kansas City, MO	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate  62  KSMO-TV by Gray Television)
6	News Plus	Defunct, likely a newswire service from the Associated Press
7	19  KCPT Kansas City, MO	Then and now, still a PBS member station (Owned and operated by Public Television 19, Inc.)
8	27  KSNT Topeka	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate (Co-owned alongside Fox affiliate  43  KTMJ-CD by Nexstar Media Group, which also operates dual ABC and CW+ affiliate  49  KTKA-TV, owned by Vaughan Media)
9	9  KMBC-TV Kansas City, MO	Then and now, still an ABC affiliate (Co-owned alongside CW affiliate  29  KCWE by Hearst Television)
10	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)
11	11  KTWU Topeka	Then and now, still a PBS member station (Owned and operated by Washburn University)
12	41  KSHB-TV Kansas City, MO	Currently an NBC affiliate (Co-owned alongside independent station  38  KMCI-TV (out of Lawrence) by The E. W. Scripps Company, assumed the NBC affiliation after longtime affiliate  4  WDAF-TV joined Fox after its then-owner New World Communications signed a mass affiliation deal with network that started in 1994)
13	13  WIBW-TV Topeka	Currently a dual CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate (Owned and operated by Gray Television)
14	49  KTKA-TV Topeka	Currently a dual ABC and CW+ affiliate (Owned by Vaughan Media and operated by Nexstar Media Group, which owns and operates NBC affiliate  27  KSNT and Fox affiliate  43  KTMJ-CD)
15	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)
16	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)
17	The Family Channel	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
18	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%)
19	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
20	USA Network	Then and now, a general entertainment and sports channel, now owned by NBCUniversal
21	Cable News Network	Now operates only by the acronym CNN, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, an American multinational news channel, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
22	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)
23	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by Paramount Global, now known as Paramount+ with Showtime
24	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel
25	C-SPAN	Then and now, a public affairs channel with proceedings in the United States House of Representatives
26	C-SPAN2	Then and now, a public affairs channel with proceedings in the United States Senate
27	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)
29	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
30	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
31	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
32	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)
33	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)
34	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
35	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
36	Prevue Guide	Today operates as Pop, owned by Paramount Global, a general entertainment channel, focusing primarily on programs pertaining to popular culture (The scrolling guides for which the network (later known as Prevue Channel, TV Guide Channel, TV Guide Network and then TVGN) was legendary for were phased out over the years, at least on the network)