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channel 1 in the United Kingdom

• arthurfm 11y ago
  a.k.a. BBC One (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone).
• fredoralive 11y ago
  For the sort of "channels" discussed in the article, the UK hasn't used a channel 1[1] for TV since 1985, as VHF was only used for the older 405 line TV system. Newer 625 line analogue TV[2] was and digital terrestrial TV is UHF only in the UK, and UHF channels are numbered from 21. For convenience most TVs mapped the channels onto buttons 1/2/3/4 for analogue but behind the scenes they would be something like channels 27/29/31/33. Modern DTT channel numbers are also completely separate from what radio channel each TV channel is actually being carried on. [1] The definition of "channel 1" is different in different countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_channel_frequencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_channel_frequencies [2] BBC2 was UHF / 625 only at launch in 1964, BBC1 and ITV started in 1969 when they introduced colour. Analogue ended late 2012.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
    Indeed, if you're in the UK and you set up a new analogue TV (a few years ago when the transmitters still ran) or a new digital TV (still possible now obviously), the first thing it does is scan the entire UHF and VHF bands detecting channels, assigning them channel numbers in the order it finds them (analogue) or by some other algorithm I don't know (digital - it's not as simple as just a fixed number).
  • teh_klev 11y ago
    Not criticising your facts but [2] would be better rewritten as: >BBC1 and ITV started in 1969 when they introduced colour. => >BBC1 and ITV started broadcasting on UHF/625 in 1969 when they introduced colour. Also, my own 2c, BBC1 and ITV continued broadcasting on VHF/405 simultaneously until 1985.