The channel numbers don't always mean anything for analog cable TV. Years ago the local cable company's channel numbers only meant something if you used the Scientific Atlanta converter they supplied. If you used a cable ready TV without a box none of the channel numbers were correct. Not a single one. They eventually started publishing a list of channels for cable-ready TVs and then finally did away with the "channel mapping" entirely, so that the channels on the converter and a cable-ready TV are the same.
