List of Time Warner Cable channels (Huntington Beach, August 1996)

Time Warner Cable customers in Huntington Beach, California, in August of 1996, had the channels listed below. Time Warner Cable, along with Charter and Bright House Networks merged into one company, Spectrum, which still services the city even to this day.

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CH#	Name	Notes/Today
2	KCBS Ch. 2 (CBS) Los Angeles	CBS West Coast flagship station, owned by ViacomCBS, sister to independent station KCAL
3	Municipal Access	Status unknown at this time, a local cable access channel focused on local affairs
4	KNBC Ch. 4 (NBC) Los Angeles	NBC West Coast flagship station, owned by NBCUniversal, sister to Telemundo O&O KVEA
5	KTLA Ch. 5 (WB) Los Angeles	Now a CW affiliate
6	Local Origination	Local programming
7	KABC Ch. 7 (ABC) Los Angeles	ABC West Coast flagship station, owned by The Walt Disney Company
8	Prevue Guide	Today operates as Pop, a general entertainment channel, focusing primarily on programs pertaining to popular culture (The scrolling guides for which the network was legendary for were phased out over the years, at least on the network)
9	KCAL Ch. 9 (Independent) Los Angeles	Owned by ViacomCBS, sister to CBS West Coast flagship KCBS
10	KCET Ch. 28 (PBS) Los Angeles	Disaffiliated from PBS in 2011 before rejoining the network as part of a merger agreement with another PBS station, KOCE, in 2019
11	KTTV Ch. 11 (Fox) Los Angeles	Fox West Coast flagship station, owned by Fox Television Stations, sister to MyNetworkTV West Coast flagship KCOP
12	Pay-Per-View Guide	Status unknown, unclear whether or not this was actually Sneak Prevue, a pay-per-view preview and barker channel
13	KCOP Ch. 13 (UPN) Los Angeles	Now MyNetworkTV West Coast flagship station, owned by Fox Television Stations, sister to Fox West Coast flagship KTTV
14	KMEX Ch. 34 (Univision) Los Angeles	Univision West Coast flagship station, owned by Univision Communications, sister to UniMás West Coast flagship KFTR
15	KZKI Ch. 30 (Independent) San Bernardino	Now Ion West Coast flagship station, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company as KPXN, sister to Bounce TV O&O KILM
16	Infomercials	"Filler" channel with infomercials
17	WGN Ch. 9 (WB) Chicago, Illinois	The direct feed of the OTA station at the time, its later cable counterpart, WGN America, was rebranded as NewsNation, sister to CW station KTLA (Meanwhile, WGN itself would become an independent once again starting in 2016)
18	KSCI Ch. 18 (Independent) San Bernardino	A multicultural independent station at the time, now a ShopHQ affiliate, with license transferred to the city of Long Beach in 1998
19	KDOC Ch. 56 (Independent) Anaheim	Still an independent station to this day
20	KVEA Ch. 52 (Telemundo) Corona	Telemundo West Coast flagship station, owned by NBCUniversal, sister to NBC West Coast flagship KNBC
21	KRCA Ch. 62 (Independent) Riverside	Now Estrella TV network flagship station
22	KWHY Ch. 22 (Independent) Los Angeles	Then and now, still an independent station, only now with a schedule consisting entirely of Spanish language programming
23	KHSC Ch. 46 (HSN) Ontario	Now UniMás West Coast flagship station as KFTR, owned by Univision Communications, sister to Univision West Coast flagship KMEX
24	KTBN Ch. 40 (TBN) Santa Ana	Flagship station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network
25	KOCE Ch. 50 (PBS) Huntington Beach	Still a PBS member station, sister to another PBS station, KCET
26	KLCS Ch. 58 (PBS) Los Angeles	The fourth PBS station in the market (the others being KCET, KOCE and KVCR), owned and operated by the Los Angeles Unified School District
27	Educational Access	A local cable access channel with educational programs
29	WTBS Ch. 17 (Independent) Atlanta, Georgia	Both the station and the cable network were separated from each other in 2007, with the station operating today as WPCH-TV, owned by Gray Television
30	Cable News Network	CNN in Atlanta, an American multinational news channel
31	The Discovery Channel	Still operates today with a program mix of technology, science, nature and reality, and its name shortened to just Discovery
32	Nickelodeon	Programming 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
33	Cartoon Network	Originally consisted of cartoons 24 hours a day, the network has occasionally added live-action programming into its lineups as well
34	USA Network	Today owned by NBCUniversal
35	Lifetime	Programming geared towards women and women in lead roles of movies and shows
36	Turner Network Television	Programming shifted from mostly classic movies towards drama movies and shows over the years with sporting events featured as well, solely by the acronym TNT
37	ESPN	Owned as a joint venture between Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company
38	Prime Sports West	Sold to Fox and became Fox Sports West, now operates as Bally Sports West, sister to Bally Sports SoCal
39	ESPN2	A companion network to ESPN, a joint venture between Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company
41	C-SPAN	A channel entirely focused on government and public affairs
42	Orange County Newschannel	Defunct, a local cable news service
43	CNN Headline News	Once a companion network to CNN with news headlines, programming has shifted mostly to crime and law oriented shows and documentaries in recent years as HLN
44	Consumer News and Business Channel	Still operates today, but only by the acronym CNBC
45	The Disney Channel	Originally a premium pay subscription channel, Disney is now a general cable channel
46	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
47	FitTV	Defunct, a fitness and exercise channel, replaced by Discovery Fit & Health, now Discovery Life, which now focuses on reality programming
48	QVC	One of America's two major home shopping television networks, the other being HSN
49	The Weather Channel	Weather forecasting and science and in recent years, weather related shows and documentaries as well
50	The Travel Channel	Features documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world
51	Comedy Central	Comedy movies and shows, owned by ViacomCBS
52	Food Network	Programming focused on cooking, fine dining and culinary
53	International Channel	Defunct, later renamed AZN Television, with programming targeting English-speaking Asian-Americans
54	E! Entertainment Television	Originally focused primarily towards entertainment news and gossip, but has shifted towards pop culture, celebrity focused reality shows, and movies
55	American Movie Classics	Today operates only by the acronym AMC, shifted from originally exclusively classic movies (as a pay channel) towards movies, shows and originally programming (as a general cable channel)
56	MSNBC	A cable new service, originally a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, the latter has since taken full control of the network
57	C-SPAN2	A channel entirely focused on government and public affairs
58	Bravo	Originally focused on film and performing arts (as a premium pay subscription channel), the channel has shifted towards lifestyle and reality shows as well as programming themed around the LGBTQ community (as a general cable channel)
59	Arts & Entertainment (A&E)	Once a channel focused on arts and history, the channel has shifted significantly towards reality shows, dramas and documentaries
60	The Nashville Network (TNN)	A channel once focused on country music and lifestyle, it now operates as a general entertainment channel as Paramount Network
61	Video Hits One	Owned by ViacomCBS, 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
62	Music Television (MTV)	Owned by ViacomCBS, like VH1, it too has shifted from strictly music and music videos in its early years to a mix of music, reality shows and dramas in recent years
63	News/Talk	Status unknown, a news/talk channel
64	The History Channel	Originally focused on history-based documentaries, The History Channel (now known simply as History) shifted focus significantly towards reality television programming by the late 2000s
65	The Learning Channel	Initially focused on educational and learning content, by the late 1990s the network began to primarily focus towards reality series involving lifestyles, family life, and personal stories as TLC
66	Turner Classic Movies	A classic movie channel with films from Warner Bros. films released before 1950 and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films released before May 1986 as well as the entire RKO Pictures film library
67	The Sci-Fi Channel	Programming focused primarily around fantasy, horror and science fiction, now as SYFY
68	FLiX	A movie channel owned by ViacomCBS, sister to Showtime and The Movie Channel
69	The Movie Channel	Sister network to Showtime, owned by ViacomCBS
70	Faith and Values Network	Later became Odyssey Network before being sold to Hallmark Cards and becoming the modern-day Hallmark Channel
71	Showtime	A premium subscription channel with movies, shows, documentaries and sporting events, owned by ViacomCBS
72	Showtime 2	A companion network to Showtime, owned by ViacomCBS
73	Continuous Hits #4	A pay-per-view channel, now operating as iN DEMAND
74	Hot Choice	A companion to Viewer's Choice with adults-only (erotica and pornographic) programming at night
75	HBO 2	A companion network to HBO, with branding shifting between HBO Plus and HBO2 before finally settling on the latter
76	Home Box Office	Still operates today by its acronym HBO, Home Box Office (owned today by WarnerMedia) is still used as the network's legal corporate name
77	Cinemax	Sister network to HBO, owned by WarnerMedia
78	Viewer's Choice	A Pay-Per-View channel, now operating as iN DEMAND
79	Continuous Hits #3	A pay-per-view channel, now operating as iN DEMAND
98	Adult Pay-Per-View	Pay-per-view programming exclusively for mature audiences
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