Hooking cable to tv

I have recently bought 2 tv's for in 2 different rooms. I just got cable hooked up in each room and now I have the tv's both hooked up. The problem is that the tv upstairs works fine and gets all the cable channels, while the tv downstairs in the living room only gets the first 13 channels out of the 60 it should be getting. Can someone please help me, tell me what I did wrong. All I did was hook the cable to the back of each tv, like the cable company said to and this is what's happened

angie wrote:
I have recently bought 2 tv's for in 2 different rooms. I just got cable hooked up in each room and now I have the tv's both hooked up. The problem is that the tv upstairs works fine and gets all the cable channels, while the tv downstairs in the living room only gets the first 13 channels out of the 60 it should be getting. Can someone please help me, tell me what I did wrong. All I did was hook the cable to the back of each tv, like the cable company said to and this is what's happened
You probably have the channel settings on the downstairs TV set to "antenna" and not "cable".
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