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Even odder is that central Europe had no channel 1. Everything started offset at channel 2. Additionally in some countries a channel 2A existed.
by the_mitsuhiko 6y ago
Even odder is that central Europe had no channel 1. Everything started offset at channel 2. Additionally in some countries a channel 2A existed.
- hollerith 6y agoThe US, too, had no channel 1. (Source: I'm old enough that my family owned a TV in the 1960s.) And my current cable TV service, from Comcast, also has no channel 1.
- kkielhofner 6y agoWhat's always been interesting to me is the well-known "NY1": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY1 Carried on Charter cable systems in NYC, various other systems throughout the country. Sometimes on channel 1, sometimes on other channels on different systems - likely due to technical challenges.
- ac29 6y agoIt did, but the band was reassigned to other uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_1_(North_American_TV) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_1_(North_American_TV)
- jedberg 6y agoThere was a channel 1 briefly in a few places, but it turns out that it wasn't a good spectrum for TV so it looked awful, so no one wanted it. They didn't bother to renumber all the channels though, so channel 1 just didn't get used (although it's available as a virtual channel now).
- drmpeg 6y agoAustralia and New Zealand both had channels 0 and 1 for analog television broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_television_frequencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_tel... During the peak of Solar cycle 22 in 1989-1991, amateur radio operators (including me) on the US west coast used to listen for New Zealand channel 0 audio on 50.75 MHz (also 50.74 and 50.76 MHz). If you could hear the wideband FM audio, it was almost guaranteed you could make SSB or CW contacts with New Zealand hams around 50.11 MHz.