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I just read the article and seen the talk about the phone line system that I did not say anything about in the older post.

Did the Chicago area systems use the phone line system that was in use in Michigan?

wgn america was never on any Chicago area system. Also cable was on in a few area in 1981-1985 (not in the city of Chicago) But in areas out side of it.

Before the 1985-1986? preview guide C-band started.

They really ought to consider setting up another channel with the listings on it and make what this is turning into a separate service surely? Maybe it's the cable companies that are losing the plot and think they don't want such a service, I dunno. The cable box has the guide and getting rid of th...

Is there a video with the right date so we can see it with data?

AriX wrote:On to the channel data format itself. A typical channel block looks like this on the ASCII side:

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[   2 ......CBS006.KCBS....................00...CBS006.

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what hex edit app are you useing to get the text?

talking about wgn America where did Chicago land cable systems get there guide data from as they NEVER HAD wgn america. They had WGN 9 / WGN OTA. also there cable system that back in 1981-1982? had a dual 60 channle A-B system (super head end feeding a few city's) later they duped the A-B sides to ...

IS there a way to read out the dta files into a txt or doc file?

More videos from that same? head end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uL8mL4K ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS_RfCJpi1s

are there any other videos from the Chicago area Prevue systems?

Preview Guide and sports overflows?? why was Prevue Guide used over useing a PEG channle for the part time over flows? The guide shows some odd stuff with this shearing. also look at the videos sports channel Chicago shown as spoc is list on 39 that is also the guide but 54 is missing. http://il.you...

Channel Guide UK looks a little like preview guide anyone have any info on it? the audio seems to a mix of FM radio with cable tv promos / live tv audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpajKZIdeSs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLDTummBf8U&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbBe1Eiyb...