Name: Mike S.
Status: Educator
Age: 40s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: February 2003
Question:
Why does television start with channel 2 instead of channel 1?
Replies:
I believe this was a decision made in the early 1950's, to give the part
of the spectrum that would have been channel 1 TV to some other kind of
radio. But it was simply a political decision.
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