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Re: What Happened To Channel 1

Paul Coxwell (paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk)
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:16:01 -0000

> Along this line, and at the risk of perhaps being slightly OT, if anyone
> knows why television uses channels while radio uses frequencies (for the
> most part, that is, the 88 channel) FM Marine Band in the 156 MHz range
> being an exception), I would be interested in hearing about it.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the FCC does actually have
official channel numbers for each allocation in the AM and FM
broadcast bands, even though they're rarely used.

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