Campus Cable Channels

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• Channel 2 WBBM CBS Chicago  
• Channel 3 WIFR-DT Digital TV CBS 23  
• Channel 4 WMAQ-DT Digital TV NBC 5  
• Channel 5 WMAQ NBC Chicago*   
• Channel 6 BET     
• Channel 7 WLS-DT Digital TV ABC 7   
• Channel 8 Movies/Housing Bulletin Board 
• Channel 9 WGN TV-DT Digital TV CW 9    
• Channel 10  WFLD-DT Digital TV (Fox 32 Chicago)  
• Channel 11  WTTW PBS Chicago   
• Channel 12  CHN/Local Addition   
• Channel 13  CNN     
• Channel 17  Fox News   
• Channel 18  WSNS TV (Telemundo 44)  
• Channel 20  Housing BBS-NS Radio-NTC 
• Channel 21  SCOLA     
• Channel 22  Teleconferences   
• Channel 23  WREX Rockford NBC 13* 
• Channel 24  WLS ABC 7  
• Channel 25  WGN CW 9  
• Channel 26  WTTW PBS 11
• Channel 28  WPWR (UPN 50 Chicago)* 
• Channel 29  WFLD FOX 32*
• Channel 30  Comcast SN Chicago
• Channel 31  ESPN-U
• Channel 32  ESPN

• Channel 33  ESPN-2
• Channel 34  NFL Network
• Channel 35  NIU Weather
• Channel 36  TWC The Weather Channel
• Channel 37  ESPN News
• Channel 38  (TBA)
• Channel 39  MTVU
• Channel 40  Nickelodeon
• Channel 41  Cartoon Network
• Channel 43  Animal Planet
• Channel 44  Food
• Channel 45  E! Entertainment
• Channel 46  TNT
• Channel 47  TBS
• Channel 48  ABC Family
• Channel 49  USA
• Channel 50  AMC Movies
• Channel 51  Lifetime
• Channel 52  Oxygen
• Channel 53  Comedy Central 
• Channel 54  Spike TV  
• Channel 55  Fox Movie
• Channel 56  VH1
• Channel 57  FX
• Channel 58  MTV
• Channel 59  Nat. Geographic
• Channel 60  History
• Channel 61  TLC
• Channel 62  A&E
• Channel 63  Discovery

Academic buildings receive channels 2 through 36 only.

Digital channels require an ATSC built in tuner or digital converter box.

*analog simulcast