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List of Paragon Cable channels (Tampa Bay, February 1991)
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Parent Page: List of Retro Cable lineups in the United States
Paragon Cable customers in Bradenton, Haines City, Lakeland, Largo, Plant City, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Beach and Temple Terrace and other select portions of Hillsborough and Polk counties in Florida had a lineup of channels to their availability in February of 1991. Paragon Cable was bought by and absorbed into Time Warner Cable in 1999. Nowadays, cable television services across Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas and Polk counties are branched out and split between Charter Spectrum (the former Time Warner Cable), Summit Broadband and Comcast (through Xfinity).
Legend
- BRD: Bradenton
- EPO: Portions of Eastern Polk County
- HAN: Haines City
- HIB: Portions of Hillsborough County
- LAK: Lakeland
- LAR: Largo
- PLA: Plant City
- SPB: St. Petersburg Beach (now known as St. Pete Beach)
- STP: St. Petersburg
- TEM: Temple Terrace
- 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 local in-market stations in the Tampa Bay 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.
Market
The Tampa Bay (Tampa-St. Petersburg) television market includes 10 counties in Florida, with market hubs in bold text:
- Counties: Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota
- Cities: Bradenton, Brooksville, Citrus Springs, Clearwater, Crystal River, Floral City, Haines City, Hernando, Homosassa, Lakeland, Largo, Lecanto, Land O'Lakes, New Port Richey, Oldsmar, Palmetto, Plant City, Port Richey, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Temple Terrace, Wauchula and Zolfo Springs
Lineup
Broadcast OTA Stations
- NOTE: As listed in the February 24, 1991 edition of the Tampa Tribune.
| Station (Notes/Today, none if unchanged) | Network (in 1991) | BRD | EPO | HAN | HIB | LAK | LAR | PLA | SPB | STP | TEM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 WESH-TV Daytona Beach | NBC | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 3 WEDU Tampa | PBS | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 WCPX-TV Orlando (Now with the call letters WKMG-TV) |
CBS | 15 | 6 | 15 | |||||||
| 8 WFLA-TV Tampa | NBC | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| 9 WFTV Orlando | ABC | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||||||
| 9 WGN-TV Ch. 9 Chicago, Illinois (Later cable offspring now as NewsNation) |
Independent | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| 9 WWOR-TV Secaucus, New Jersey (Now a MyNetworkTV O&O and East Coast flagship) |
Independent | 14 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 13 | |
| 10 WTSP St. Petersburg (Now a CBS affiliate) |
ABC | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||
| 13 WTVT Tampa (Now a Fox network O&O) |
CBS | 13 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| 16 WUSF-TV Tampa (Now WEDQ, sister to WEDU) |
PBS | 9 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | ||
| 17 WTBS Atlanta, Georgia (OTA station spun-off as WPCH-TV (now a CW affiliate), TBS still operates as a standalone cable network today) |
Independent | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| 22 WCLF Clearwater | CTN | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 3 | |||
| 24 WMFE-TV Orlando (Now WUCF-TV) |
PBS | 8 | 12 | ||||||||
| 28 WFTS-TV Tampa (Now an ABC affiliate) |
Fox | 6 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | |
| 32 WTMV Lakeland (Now with the call letters WMOR-TV) |
Independent | 12 | 2 | 12 | 15 | ||||||
| 35 WOFL Orlando (Network owned-and-operated since 2002) |
Fox | 16 | 11 | 16 | |||||||
| 40 WWSB Sarasota | ABC | 12 | |||||||||
| 44 WTOG St. Petersburg | Independent | 4 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
General Cable Channels
- NOTE: Status of channels in 1991. The status of each may have changed in the years and decades since. Also, some networks may share channel positions, exact carriage hours unknown at this time.
| Network (Notes/Today, none if unchanged) | BRD | EPO | HAN | HIB | LAK | LAR | PLA | SPB | STP | TEM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts & Entertainment (Now simply as A&E) |
37 | 41 | 36 | 29 | 41 | R/31 | 30 | 48 | R/31 | 29 |
| Black Entertainment Television (Now simply as BET) |
22 | 31 | 33 | 43/31 | 31 | 29 | 40 | 31 | ||
| Cable News Network (Now simply as CNN) |
16 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 17 | D/17 | 14 | 17 | D/17 | 17 |
| CNN Headline News (Now simply as HLN) |
42 | 32 | 32 | 42 | K/24 | 32 | 24 | K/24 | 32 | |
| C-SPAN | 50 | 28 | 40/35 | 50 | B/15 | 28 | 46 | 34/35 | ||
| C-SPAN2 | 51 | 51 | 47 | |||||||
| The Discovery Channel (Now simply as Discovery or Discovery Channel) |
38 | 29 | 31 | 26 | 29 | P/29 | 35 | 29 | P/29 | 26 |
| ESPN | 5 | 20 | 23 | 15 | 20 | I/22 | 23 | 27 | I/22 | 20 |
| The Family Channel (Now Freeform owned by Disney) |
24 | 43 | 35 | 25 | 43 | C/16 | 24 | 16 | C/16 | 25 |
| Financial News Network/FNN Score (Defunct, replaced by CNBC) |
38 | 31 | 38 | R/31 | 30 | R/31 | 31 | |||
| Home Shopping Network (Now simply as HSN, also over-the-air in the Tampa Bay area via 28-5 WFTS-DT5, 40-3 WWSB-DT3, 15 W31EG-D, 33 W32FH-D and 43 W16DQ-D, and in Central Florida via 10-11 WSWF-CD11) |
33 | 33 | ||||||||
| The Learning Channel (Now simply as TLC) |
44 | 35 | 31 | 44 | 35 | 42 | ||||
| Lifetime | 18 | 40 | 24 | 30 | 40 | J/23 | 25 | 23 | J/23 | 30 |
| Music Television (Now simply as MTV) |
48 | 27 | 36 | 48 | M/26 | 27 | 26 | M/26 | 36 | |
| The Nashville Network (TNN) (Now Paramount Network) |
30 | 26 | 27 | 30 | Q/30 | 26 | 30 | Q/30 | 27 | |
| Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite | 23 | 44 | 17 | 28 | 44 | F/19 | 17 | 36 | F/19 | 28 |
| Nostalgia Television (Now YTA TV) |
42 | 49 | 39 | 49 | 41 | |||||
| QVC (Also over-the-air in Central Florida via 10-12 WSWF-CD12) |
30 | W/36 | ||||||||
| SportsChannel Florida (Now Bally Sports Florida) |
34 | W/36 | 31 | W/36 | 22 | |||||
| Sunshine Network (Now Bally Sports Sun) |
36 | 30 | 35 | V/35 | V/35 | 35 | ||||
| Turner Network Television (Now simply as TNT) |
27 | 32 | 34 | 23 | 32 | G/20 | 34 | 45 | G/20 | 23 |
| The Travel Channel (Now known as Travel Channel or Trvl Channel) |
36 | |||||||||
| Univision (Now over-the-air via O&Os 50 WVEA-TV Tampa and 43 WVEN-TV Orlando) |
45 | 46 | 45 | 39 | 37 | |||||
| USA Network | 20 | 37 | 18 | 18 | 19 | E/18 | 18 | 18 | E/18 | 18 |
| Video Hits One (Now simply as VH1) |
47 | 38 | 47 | L/25 | 25 | L/25 | 38 | |||
| The Weather Channel | 39 | 29 | 19 | 18 | U/34 | 8 | 52 | U/34 | 19 |
Premium Channels
- NOTE: Status of channels in 1991.
| Network (Notes/Today, none if unchanged) | BRD | EPO | HAN | HIB | LAK | LAR | PLA | SPB | STP | TEM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Movie Classics (Now a general cable channel, simply as AMC) |
52 | 52 | ||||||||
| Cinemax | 21 | 15 | 16 | 21 | O/28 | 15 | 20 | O/28 | ||
| The Disney Channel (Now a general cable channel as Disney Channel) |
35 | 19 | 16 | 24 | 19 | S/32 | 16 | 22 | S/32 | 5 |
| Home Box Office (Now simply as HBO) |
29 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 22 | H/21 | 22 | 21 | H/21 | 2 |
| The Movie Channel | 30 | 24 | 20 | 20 | 24 | 56 | 20 | 28 | 56 | |
| Showtime | 28 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 23 | N/27 | 21 | 19 | N/27 | 14 |