Date: 5 Jan 1984 02:45-EST
From: Ed.Gehringer@CMU-CS-G.ARPA
Subject: Re: warner cable???
To: Bob.Walker at CMU-EE-FARADAY 
Message-Id: <442136703/efg@CMU-CS-G>
In-Reply-To: Bob.Walker at CMU-EE-FARADAY's bboard message of 04-Jan-84 14:17    
Resent-To: bovik@a
Resent-From: Bob.Walker@CMU-EE-FARADAY
Resent-Date: Monday, 9 January 1984 12:15:44 EST

I have an 18-month-old listing, and despite several service changes
since then, I think I've figured out the scheme:

Tier 1: Broadcast stations from Ch. 2, 4, 11, 13, 16, 22, 40, 53, plus
C-SPAN, the Pgh. city government's channel (how to pay your income tax,
put out your garbage, etc.), Health Services (occasional half-hour
tapes of health advice, many locally produced), one local-access
channel, "Pittsburgh Potpurri" (mostly how to use your cable system
and, especially, pay your bill), and four other advertised channels
which never transmit any programming (just generally boring text
displays).

Tier 2: Adds another local-access channel, Christian Associates
(usually text but sometimes Catholic or Protestant-oriented programs),
Minority Almanac (mostly Black Entertainment Television, but also some
Spanish programs), Special Needs Programming (mostly text but an
occasional captioned or sign-language interpreted program), and The
Weather Channel.

Tier 3: Adds Nickelodeon, WOR-TV (New York), WTBS (Atlanta), Financial
News Network, TV Extras (network programs not carried locally;
generally picked up off-the-air from Youngstown), CNN Headline News,
and five other mostly-useless channels like the Program Highlights,
Viewer's Choice Highlights, and Channel Listing.  (I count 33 channels
here, not 32.  It makes sense for the break to be after this grouping,
however, because it includes exactly those channels on the "B"
cable--the channels on the "A" cable are separated from these by a
dozen blank channels.)

Tier 4:  Adds CBN (Christian Bcstg. Network), CNN (Cable News Net.),
Stocks and Markets (text that is actually useful sometimes when it's
not garbled), Radar Weather (the NOAA "weatheradio" station with a
radar map for video), ESPN, USA Network, Renaissance (the interactive
Qube game channel, plus tape-delayed high-school basketball), Consumer
Information (occasionally useful text), Cable Health Network, ARTS
(usually text but some programs), SPN (mostly cultural or foreign
shows), Culture & Learning (often simulcasts with ARTS, otherwise mostly
text), the Nashville Network, and MTV.  Also a few other generally
useless text channels.

Channels that cost extra are Home Theater Net., The Movie Ch., HSE
(Home Sports Entertainment--Pirates, etc.), The Disney Ch., and
Showtime.  Also there are four pay-per-view channels.

Hope this helps you out.  I would actually trust my judgment more than
what their salesmen/women say--I generally have to ask two or three people to
synthesize a coherent answer.
					-Ed