Archive:List of Tele-Media Cable channels (Silver City, September 1977)
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Tele-Media customers in Silver City, New Mexico had access to the channels listed below in September of 1977. It is unknown at this time what exactly became of Tele-Media. However, today, Silver City receives its services from Comcast through Xfinity. (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 Albuquerque-Santa Fe 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 Albuquerque-Santa Fe television market includes (at least parts of) 31 counties in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, with market hubs in bold text:
- Arizona:
- Counties: Apache (portions)
- Cities: Chinle, Cottonwood, Lukachukai, Red Mesa, Rock Point, Rough Rock, Steamboat and Wheatfield
- Colorado:
- Counties: La Plata and Montezuma
- Cities: Bayfield, Cortez, Dolores, Durango, Hermosa, Hesperus, Mancos, Marvel, Towaoc, Trimble, Vallecito and Yellow Jacket
- New Mexico:
- Counties: Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, De Baca, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lea (portions), Lincoln, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, San Juan, San Miguel, Sierra, Taos, Torrance and Valencia
- Cities: Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Carlsbad, Deming, Farmington, Gallup, Los Lunas, Maljamar, Midway, Rio Rancho, Roswell, Santa Fe, Santa Rosa, Silver City, Socorro, Taos, Tatum, Truth or Consequences and Tularosa
Lineup
| CH# | Name | Notes/Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2 |  8 KAET Phoenix, AZ |
Still a PBS member station, owned by the Arizona State University (For reasons unknown at this time, KAET was chosen over Albuquerque's own PBS station, 5 KNME-TV, jointly owned and operated by the University of New Mexico and the Albuquerque Public School District) |
| 3 | 9 KHJ-TV Los Angeles, CA | Then and now, still an independent station (now as KCAL) (Owned by Paramount Global as part of a duopoly with CBS West Coast flagship station 2 KCBS-TV) |
| 4 |  4 KDBC-TV El Paso, TX |
Currently a dual CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group (Part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate 14 KFOX-TV, which was NOT yet on the air until August of 1979 as religious independent station KCIK, for reasons unknown at this time, KDBC-TV was chosen over Albuquerque's own CBS affiliate, 13 KGGM-TV, now KRQE and its semi-satellite, 10 KBIM-TV out of Roswell) |
| 5 | 5 KPHO-TV Phoenix, AZ | Currently a CBS network affiliate, owned by Gray Television (Part of a duopoly with independent station 3 KTVK, an ABC affiliate in 1977) |
| 8 | 5 KTLA Los Angeles, CA | Now a CW network owned-and-operated station, owned by Nexstar Media Group (Founded and owned by Paramount Pictures until it was sold to actor/singer Gene Autry (1907-1998) in 1964, KTLA is the oldest active television station west of the Mississippi River, and just the eighth commercial (non-experimental) television station on the air in the United States when it signed onto the air in January of 1947, Nexstar Media acquired a 75 percent stake in The CW in October of 2022, with founders Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery splitting the remaining 25 percent -- at 12.5 percent each, essentially and technically making KTLA a network owned-and-operated station along with other CW network stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar (and its partner company Mission Broadcasting) and Paramount) |
| 9 |  9 KTSM-TV El Paso, TX |
Then and now, still, an NBC network affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group (Also carried a limited number of PBS programs including Sesame Street until KCOS signed onto the air in August of 1978, even with another PBS station, KRWG-TV out of Las Cruces already on the air at the time, for reasons unknown at this time, KTSM-TV was chosen over Albuquerque's own NBC affiliate, 4 KOB) |
| 10 |  7 KOAT-TV Albuquerque |
Then and now, still, an ABC network affiliate, owned by Hearst Television |
| 11 | 22 KRWG-TV Las Cruces |
Then and now, still a PBS member station, owned by New Mexico State University (For reasons unknown at this time, KRWG-TV was chosen over Albuquerque's own PBS station, 5 KNME-TV, jointly owned and operated by the University of New Mexico and the Albuquerque Public School District) |
| 12 | 11 KTTV Los Angeles, CA | Now the Fox West Coast flagship station (Owned by Fox Television Stations as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV West Coast flagship 13 KCOP-TV, also an independent in 1977) |
| 13 | 13 KCOP-TV Los Angeles, CA | Now the MyNetworkTV West Coast flagship station (Owned by Fox Television Stations as part of a duopoly with Fox West Coast flagship 11 KTTV, also an independent in 1977) |