Why do television sets start with channel 2 and not channel 1?

romeomikegolf

To a TV engineer a 'channel' is the frequency that a particularTV company is allowed to broadcast on. Here in the UK these 'channels' are 8 megahertz wide, and the lowest number set by the government for TV reception is channel 21, with a center frequency of 474Mhz.The highest is channel 68 at 850Mhz. Oct 19 04, 12:04 AM

Arpeggionist

In Israel, officially, they do start on channel 1, and before 1993 there were only two Israeli stations (we also got Mid-East TV and Jordanian stations, which sometimes had better shows). Oct 19 04, 3:04 AM

MrsAce

In the US the TV channels start at 2 because the frequencies for 1 had already been given out for use to radio stations. They assigned 2 to TV and never bothered to change it. Oct 19 04, 8:12 AM

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