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In North American broadcast television frequencies, channel 1 was a former
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( over-the-air)
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which was removed from service in 1948. During the experimental era of TV operation, Channel 1 was moved around the lower VHF spectrum repeatedly, with the entire band displaced upward at one point due to an early 40 MHz allocation for the
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. After FM was moved to its current frequencies in 1946, TV Channel 1's last assigned band was 44 to 50 MHz. This allocation was short-lived. Land Mobile Radio and television broadcasters shared the same frequencies until 1948, which caused interference. This shared allocation was eventually found to be unworkable, so the FCC reallocated the Channel 1 frequencies for
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and
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use and assigned TV channels 2–13 exclusively to broadcasters. Aside from the shared frequency issue, this part of the VHF band was (and to some extent still is) prone to higher levels of
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(RFI) than even Channel 2 (System M). As Mexico signed on its first station in 1950 and Canada's first station went on-air in 1952, the historical Channel 1 (System M) is exclusively a U.S. allocation artifact.


History

Channel 1 was allocated at 44–50 MHz between 1937 and 1940. 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 1940, the FCC reassigned 42–50 MHz to the
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. Television's channel 1 frequency range was moved to 50–56 MHz (see table below). Experimental television stations in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles were affected. Commercial TV allocations were made by the
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(FCC) under the
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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
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. Several commercial and experimental television stations operated on the 50–56 MHz Channel 1 between 1941 and 1946, including one station, WNBT (now
WNBC WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo statio ...
, channel 4) in
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, which had a full commercial operating license. In the first postwar allocation in the spring of 1946, Channel 1 was moved back to 44–50 MHz, with visual at 45.25 MHz and aural at 49.75 MHz. 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 low-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 removed from use in 1948. 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: * W2XBS/WNBT (today's
WNBC WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo statio ...
),
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(1941–1946), reassigned in 1946 to channel 4; * W6XAO/KTSL (today's
KCBS-TV KCBS-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside independent out ...
),
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, reassigned post-war to channel 2; * W9XZV
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, Zenith's experimental station, billed as the first all-electric TV station in 1939. Reassigned post-war to Channel 2, it broadcast an early form of monochrome
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in 1951 as K2XBS
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and conducted early
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experiments before ultimately going
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in 1953. Its transmitters were donated to
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( PBS 11 Chicago) and its channel 2 assignment was taken by
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O&O
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. * KARO, Riverside,
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; never began broadcasting, no current VHF allocation; * WSBE,
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,
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; never began broadcasting on channel 1, but was reallocated to UHF channel 34 in the 1952 revised channel allocation table, where it went on the air as
WSBT-TV WSBT-TV (channel 22) is a television station in South Bend, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on East Douglas Avenue in Mishawaka, and its transmitter is loca ...
that year. As part of a consolidation of the Elkhart and South Bend communities into a single television market, WSBT-TV was moved in 1958 to UHF channel 22, where it remains as a digital
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affiliate today; channel 34 became the home of PBS member station WNIT. No full-service VHF TV allocations were made available to
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due to its proximity to
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, making the city a UHF island. By September 1945, additional stations temporarily granted construction permits to operate on channel 1 included: * W8XCT (
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)
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,
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ultimately built on channel 4 as commercial station
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, later moved to channel 5. * W9RUI
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held an unbuilt construction permit, and additionally given a channel 12 assignment. * W8XGZ Charleston,
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, licensed to a chemical company, also held a channel one construction permit; there is no indication the stations ever got on the air. ''See also
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for additional channel one pioneers.'' As a virtual channel, however,
KAXT-CD KAXT-CD (channel 1) is a low-power, Class A Decades owned-and-operated television station licensed to both San Francisco and San Jose, California, United States, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasti ...
in
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(broadcasting on physical UHF channel 22) was assigned
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1 in July 2009, becoming the first American station to be assigned virtual channel 1 via the digital television
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standard, which shows the channel as such on a digital television set. KAXT-CD's physical broadcasts on UHF channel 22 cause no interference for Channel 1 physically.


Community television

In 1946, prior to
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and the invention of
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channels, the FCC decided to reserve channel 1 for low-power Community television stations, and moved existing channel 1 stations to higher frequencies. Community television stations covered smaller cities and were allowed to use less radiated power. None of these stations were built before the FCC imposed a freeze on all television station construction permits in mid-1948, and removed the channel one allocations.


A shared (non-primary) allocation

From 1945 to 1948 TV stations in the U.S. shared Channel 1 and other channels with fixed and mobile services. The FCC decided in 1948 that a primary (non-shared) allocation of the VHF
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was needed for television broadcasting. Except for selected VHF frequencies in Alaska and Hawaii (and some overseas territories) the FCC-administered VHF band is primarily allocated for television broadcasting to this day. The FCC in May 1948 formally changed the rules on TV band allocations based on propagation knowledge gained during the era of shared-user allocations. The 44–50 MHz
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used by Channel 1 was replaced by lower-power narrowband users. Channel 1 was reassigned to fixed and mobile services (44–50 MHz) in order to end their former shared use of other VHF TV frequencies. Rather than renumber the TV channel table, it was decided to merely remove Channel 1 from the table.


Cable television

On
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systems, channel 1 was optionally used by some providers in between channels 4 and 5 at the frequencies of 72–78 MHz (moving channel 5 and 6 allocations up by 2MHz; however, this would prevent channels 5 and 6 from being viewed on non- cable-ready television sets). Channel 1, where available, has also been mapped to 99 (frequency range 114–120 MHz) on some cable boxes.


Modern allocations 43–50 MHz

As of September 2000, the Federal Spectrum Use of the band (which is regulated by the NTIA and not the FCC) was as follows: *43.69–46.6 Non-Military Land Mobile Radio (LMR):
Primarily used by Federal agencies for mutual aid response with local communities.
Military LMR: Used by the military services for tactical and training operations on a non-interference basis. (Band is otherwise non-government exclusive). *46.6–47 Govt. FIXED MOBILE Allocation:
Non-Military LMR: Extensive use of this band is for contingency response to various national disasters. Others uses are for national resources management, law enforcement, tornado tracking, and various meteorological research support.
Military LMR: This band is used primarily for tactical and training operations by
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units for combat net radio operations that provide command and control for combat, combat support, and combat service support units. Frequencies also used for air-to-ground communications for military close air support requirements as well as some other tactical air-ground and air-air communications. *47–49.6 Experimental:
Used for experimental research to observe and measure currents in harbor areas in support of vessel safety.
Military LMR: Used by the military services for tactical and training operations on a non-interference basis. (Band is otherwise non-government exclusive). *49.6–50 Govt. FIXED MOBILE Allocation:
Non-Military LMR: This band is used extensively to support contingencies or ecological emergencies, some public safety requirements, MARS system, and air-quality measurements.
Experimental: Research is performed in various regions of the atmosphere as well as experimental development of portable space orbital debris ground radars.
Military LMR: This band is used primarily for tactical and training operations by U.S. military units for combat net radio operations that provide command and control for combat, combat support, and combat service support units. Frequencies also used for air-to-ground communications for military close air support requirements as well as some other tactical air-ground and air-air communications. FCC (NON-Federal) allocations for the band: *Primarily Land Mobile use from 43-46.6. *46.61-46.89 is used by older cordless phone base stations. The handsets use the 49.61 - 49.89 range for transmitting to the base unit. *47.0-49.60 is used by LMR and then the cordless phone range. Early experiments with meteor scatter one way messaging was in the 49 - 50 range back in the early 1990s but it no longer exists due to reliable and cheaper satellite communications. There is also a conflict with the de-facto
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for system M television, where receiver tuners shift and flip the incoming signal onto 41.25 MHz (analogue audio) and 45.75 MHz (analogue video) after the initial
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. This standard was adopted due to image frequency problems when
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initially struggled to life in 1952. Any receivers capable of tuning VHF TV 1, by necessity, operated on a lower intermediate frequency as 45.75 MHz video IF would overlap the incoming signal at 44-50MHz.


Channel 1 in other NTSC-using countries

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did not start regular television broadcasts until after the U.S. had decommissioned Channel 1 (44–50 MHz) for television use; CBFT and
CBLT CBLT-DT (channel 5) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the English-language service of CBC Television. It is part of a twinstick with Ici Radio-Canada Télé outlet CBLFT-DT (channel 25). Both ...
signed on in 1952. This TV channel was never used in
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,
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and the
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excluding
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as TV broadcasting did not start in these areas until the 1950s.
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ese
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broadcast on Channel 1 in Tokyo and other cities. The Japanese Channel 1 was assigned to the frequency 90 to 96 MHz, just above the Japanese
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which is 76 to 90 MHz. Frequencies corresponding to Japan's channel 1 through 3 (90–108 MHz) are used primarily for
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broadcasting (88–108 MHz) outside Japan and correspond to cable 95–97 in North America. With the advent of
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, these frequencies are being vacated by TV broadcasters and allocated to "wide FM" broadcasters, relocating from mediumwave AM to an extended FM band above 90 MHz. The following commercial television stations operated on channel 1 on analog: *
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(HBC) in
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,
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* Aomori Broadcasting Corporation (RAB) in Aomori,
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*
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(TBC) in
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,
Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nor ...
*
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(THK) in
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Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture ...
* Kitanihon Broadcasting (KNB) in Toyama,
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* Shikoku Broadcasting (JRT) in
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Tokushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...
* Nihonkai Television (NKT) in Tottori,
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(also serving
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,
Shimane Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km2. Shimane Prefecture borders Yamag ...
) *
Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with National Radio Network (NRN) on radio and All-Nippon News Network (ANN) on TV. With its relay transmitters in Saga, KBC functions as the default ANN affiliate for the ...
(KBC) in
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,
Fukuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the southwest, Kumamo ...
* Minaminihon Broadcasting (MBC) in Kagoshima,
Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto Pre ...
On digital television, their virtual channel number is 1 for historical reasons.


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What ever happened to Channel 1?
- J. W. Reiser, based on a
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Why is there no Channel One on television?
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What Happened to Channel 1?
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