TV Stations by Channel Number - Channel 1 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 202. Not illustrated. Chapters: Channel 1. Excerpt: In North America, channel 1 is a former broadcast (over-the-air) television channel. During the experimental era of TV operation Channel 1 moved all over the shortwave and lower VHF spectrum, settling at 44-50 MHz between 1937 and 1941 although visual and aural carrier frequencies within the channel fluctuated with changes in overall TV broadcast standards prior to the establishment of permanent standards by the National Television Systems Committee. In the very first post-experimental commercial TV allocations made by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the NTSC system on July 1, 1941, Channel 1 was located at 50-56 MHz, with visual carrier at 51.25 MHz and aural carrier at 55.75 MHz. At the same time, the spectrum from 42 to 50 MHz was allocated to FM radio. Several commercial and experimental stations operated on the 50-56 MHz Channel 1 between 1941 and 1946, including one station, WNBT in New York, which had a full commercial operating license. In the first postwar allocation which took effect in the spring of 1946 Channel 1 was moved back to 4450 MHz, with visual at 45.25 MHz and aural at 49.75 MHz, and FM was moved to its current 88-108 MHz band. But WNBT and all other existing stations were moved to other channels, because the final Channel 1 was reserved for lower power community stations covering a limited area. While a handful of construction permits were issued for this final version of Channel 1, no station ever actually broadcast on it before it was taken out of service in the late 1940s and the frequency band re-assigned to public safety communications. When the FCC initially allocated broadcast television frequencies, channel 1 was logically the first channel. These U.S. TV stations originally broadcast on the 50-56 MHz channel 1 In 1940, the FCC rea...