List of TCI of New York channels (Buffalo, January 1989)

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TCI of New York customers in Buffalo, New York, had access to the channels listed below in January of 1989. In the years since, assets of TCI were split up and its broadband internet services sold off to AT&T while its cable television services and franchises were sold off to Charter Communications and then resold again to Comcast. Today, Buffalo receives its services from Charter once again, through Spectrum, after one-time provider Adelphia sold its services in Buffalo to Time Warner Cable after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2006. Time Warner Cable, along with Bright House Networks, were then acquired by and merged into Charter to from Spectrum.

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 Buffalo 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 Buffalo television market includes 10 counties in New York and Pennsylvania, with market hubs in bold text, though its stations also service 7 regional municipalities and counties and one independent city in Ontario, Canada, those regions and areas are NOT officially part of the market:

• New York:
  • Counties: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming
  • Cities: Amherst, Attica, Batavia, Bellevue, Buffalo, Carlisle Gardens, Chautauqua, Cheektowaga, Depew, East Seneca, Fredonia, Jamestown, Lackawanna, Lewiston, Lockport, Medina, Niagara Falls, Olean, Orchard Park, Tonawanda, West Seneca and Wheatfield
• Pennsylvania:
  • Counties: McKean and Potter
  • Cities: Austin, Bradford, Coudersport, Galeton, Hazel Hurst, Kane, Lantz Corners, Oswayo, Port Allegany, Shinglehouse, Smethport, Sweden Valley, Turtlepoint, Ulysses and Wharton
• Ontario:
  • Regions: Durham, Haldimand, Hamilton, Halton, Niagara, Peel, Toronto and York
  • Cities: Brampton, Burlington, Caledonia, Canfield, Cayuga, Fort Erie, Grimsby, Hagersville, Hamilton, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Oakville, Oshawa, Port Colborne, Port Davidson, St. Catharines, Toronto and Welland

Lineup

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

CH#	Name	Notes/Today
2	Cable News Network	CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
3	2  WGRZ-TV Buffalo	Then and now, still an NBC affiliate, now owned by Tegna
4	17  WNED-TV Buffalo	Still a PBS member station (Owned and operated by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, also doing business as Buffalo Toronto Public Media)
5	Home Box Office	A premium subscription network, still operates today by its acronym HBO (Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, Home Box Office is still used as the network's legal corporate name)
6	4  WIVB-TV Buffalo	Then and now, still a CBS affiliate, now owned by Nexstar Media Group (Part of a duopoly with CW affiliate  23  WNLO — the former WNEQ-TV)
7	Turner Network Television	Now known simplay as TNT, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Programming shifted from mostly classic movies towards drama movies and shows over the years with sporting and other special events featured as well)
8	7  WKBW-TV Buffalo	Then and now, still an ABC affiliate, now owned by The E. W. Scripps Company
9	USA Network	Then and now, a general entertainment and sports channel, now owned by NBCUniversal
10	Public Access	Status unknown, a local cable access channel
	Univision	Owned by TelevisaUnivision, the leading major Hispanic television network in the United States with telenovelas (soap operas) and other shows predominantly from Mexico-based Televisa (Televisa itself owns a 45 percent stake in TelevisaUnivision, split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
11	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel
12	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%)
13	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
14	Music Television (MTV)	Owned by Paramount Global (Now known exclusively as MTV, it has shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas and other acquired programming in recent years)
15	Arts & Entertainment	Once a channel focused on arts and history, the channel has shifted significantly towards reality shows, dramas and documentaries, now only known simply 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)
16	17  WTBS Atlanta, GA	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 October of 2007, TBS today, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, successors of Turner Broadcasting and WarnerMedia)
17	The Movie Channel	A premium pay subscription channel with classic, mainstream and independent movies (Sister and companion network to Showtime, owned by Paramount Global)
18	5  CBLT Toronto, ON, CAN	Still a CBC network O&O station, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (The "-DT" suffix added to this call letters (now as CBLT-DT) after shutting off its analog transmitter on August 31, 2011, also sister station to French-language SRC (or Ici Télé) owned-and-operated  25  CBLFT-DT, which became its own standalone station after spending nearly 20 years as a rebroadcaster of  9  CBOFT-DT out of Ottawa from 1991 to 2010)
19	9  WWOR-TV Secaucus, NJ	Now a MyNetworkTV O&O, owned by Fox Television Stations (Part of a duopoly with Fox network flagship  5  WNYW in New York City)
20	9  CFTO-TV Toronto, ON, CAN	Still a CTV network owned-and-operated station, owned by Bell Media (The "-TV" suffix replaced with the "-DT" suffix (now as CFTO-DT) after shutting down its analog transmitter on August 31, 2011, sister station to and part of a duopoly with CTV 2 O&O  3  CKVR-DT out of Barrie, Bell Media itself is a subsidiary of BCE, formerly Bell Canada Enterprises)
21	11  WPIX New York, NY	Later a WB affiliate and now a CW affiliate (Owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar Media Group)
22	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by Paramount Global
23	23  WNEQ-TV Buffalo	Now a general entertainment station as CW affiliate WNLO, owned by Nexstar Media Group (Was a companion station to WNED-TV, but were both separated in 2000, call letters changed to the current WNLO in 2001, sister station to CBS affiliate  4  WIVB-TV)
24	American Movie Classics	Today operates only by the acronym AMC, owned by AMC Networks (AMC has shifted from originally exclusively classic movies (as a pay channel) towards movies, shows and original programming (as a general cable channel), split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	Financial News Network	Financial, consumer and business news and stocks, sold to NBC and merged into CNBC in 1991 (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
25	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 Disney General Entertainment Content, a division of The Walt Disney Company)
26	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
27	Video Hits One	Owned by Paramount Global (Now known exclusively as VH1, like its sister network, MTV, it has also shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas and other acquired programming in recent years)
28	CNN Headline News	Nowadays as HLN, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Once a companion network to CNN with news headlines, programming has shifted mostly to crime and law-oriented shows and documentaries in recent years)
29	29  WUTV Buffalo	Currently a Fox affiliate, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group (Was a charter Fox affiliate before briefly becoming an independent station once again in 1989 only to regain the affiliation from WNYB-TV in 1990, sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate  49  WNYO-TV — the former WNYB-TV, Tri-State Christian Television would recycle the old WNYB call letters (minus the "-TV" suffix) for its TCT network owned-and-operated station on channel 26, out of Jamestown)
30	The Discovery Channel	Still operates today with a program mix of technology, science, nature and reality, and its name shortened to just Discovery or Discovery Channel, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	QVC	One of America's two major home shopping television networks, the other being HSN (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time, QVC is also available over-the-air via  4-2  WIVB-DT2 and  56-8  WBXZ-LD8 while HSN is also available over-the-air via  7-5  WKBW-DT5)
31	49  WNYB-TV Buffalo	Now a MyNetworkTV affiliate (as WNYO-TV), owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group (Briefly a Fox affiliate until its acquisition by Tri-State Christian Television in 1990, a station swap with WTJA resulted in that station being a TCT network O&O and WNYB becoming a general entertainment station once again, as WB affiliate WNYO-TV with WTJA taking in the former WNYB call letters, WNYO is sister station to Fox affiliate  29  WUTV)
33	Cable Value Network	Defunct, a home shopping television channel bought out by QVC that same year (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
34	The CBN Family Channel	Spun off by the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1990 and renamed The Family Channel, and then 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
35	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 Entertainment Studios)
36	C-SPAN	A channel entirely focused on federal government and public affairs pertaining to the United States House of Representatives, including live coverage of proceedings (Split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)
	Univision	Owned by TelevisaUnivision, the leading major Hispanic television network in the United States with telenovelas (soap operas) and other shows predominantly from Mexico-based Televisa (Televisa itself owns a 45 percent stake in TelevisaUnivision, split channel, exact carriage hours unknown at this time)