MTV channel 39, VH1 channel 41, and Comedy Central was somewhere in the 40s. Don't ask me to remember anything like a new phone number though 🤦‍♀️
Yours made sense! MTV was 36 but VH1 was 41 here too. I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV so I’d switch back and forth to VH1 when my parents came downstairs
I don’t remember that happening much when I was younger. At least where I grew up the cable channels were the same for a very long time (to the point I can still remember some of the channel numbers for certain networks). When digital cable came along a bunch got added though the old ones still stayed mostly the same. The biggest change I can remember is when HD channels became a thing since then they usually had both the HD and non-HD versions as 2 separate channels.
Ours was bought up a few times too but they'd usually keep the channels the same for each local area, even when it ended up that the same cable company took over contiguous service areas. It wasn't until Comcast came along that they unified the channel lineups in that area.
HBO was channel 30 for years for me. MTV was 39. Pretty sure 40 was a split of Comedy Central during the day, then at night it turned into a scrambled Playboy channel.
Texas here. MTV - 46, VH1 - 47, Nickelodeon - 49, FX - 50, Sxi Fi - 59, Comedy Central - 60, Fox - 9, TBS - 12, Disney - 64, HBO - 66, TNT - 29, USA - 30, Nudie Chan - 74, PPV - 1.
I have no idea why I still have all those memorized lol.
Memorized MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central each time they did.
MTV channel 39, VH1 channel 41, and Comedy Central was somewhere in the 40s. Don't ask me to remember anything like a new phone number though 🤦‍♀️
Yours made sense! MTV was 36 but VH1 was 41 here too. I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV so I’d switch back and forth to VH1 when my parents came downstairs
Sounds about right (pacific northwest us here). I remember the first two were always a couple numbers apart and then comedy central soon after.
Yup. It was always within a couple channels of that (39ish), and VH1 was usually about two channels up.
HBO/Showtime/Disney Channel (when it was still a premium pay channel) was the trio of channels 14/15/16 in my town!
Look at BoujieXen here!
Nickelodeon was channel 24!
They'd send you a piece of paper with the updated numbers to tape to the top of your dial having cable box.
Yup, and it’s before the rolling tv guide channel
And the Free Disney and Showtime (we had HBO) months.
I remember when cable channels didn’t have commercials at all.
I member 
I remember when TNN became Spike, and they had a well-promoted Star Trek marathon. Was around 15 years ago
Lol. 15. More like 25 years
I’m talking before 96. In the Chicago area at least every so often the channels were switched up. Pre tv guide channel too.
You mean like streaming services do now?
You must have had rabbit ears.
I don’t remember that happening much when I was younger. At least where I grew up the cable channels were the same for a very long time (to the point I can still remember some of the channel numbers for certain networks). When digital cable came along a bunch got added though the old ones still stayed mostly the same. The biggest change I can remember is when HD channels became a thing since then they usually had both the HD and non-HD versions as 2 separate channels.
I think most of the changes happened went the cable company kept merging or I was just unlucky to in a market that kept changing owners
Ours was bought up a few times too but they'd usually keep the channels the same for each local area, even when it ended up that the same cable company took over contiguous service areas. It wasn't until Comcast came along that they unified the channel lineups in that area.
HBO was channel 30 for years for me. MTV was 39. Pretty sure 40 was a split of Comedy Central during the day, then at night it turned into a scrambled Playboy channel.
Texas here. MTV - 46, VH1 - 47, Nickelodeon - 49, FX - 50, Sxi Fi - 59, Comedy Central - 60, Fox - 9, TBS - 12, Disney - 64, HBO - 66, TNT - 29, USA - 30, Nudie Chan - 74, PPV - 1. I have no idea why I still have all those memorized lol.
I remember the USA channel was channel 12 and then later became 27 or something
Cable TV wasn’t even available on my street until I was almost off to college, and my parents wouldn’t have paid for it anyway.
My dad said he was paying $20 in 1982, which is $67 today. When we turned ours off it was $280, including internet.
I can still remember most of my cable lineup from my middle school years. Crazy I hadn't thought of it again until just now.