What is the deal with Channel 1 on cable television?

Question

Let me know why it exist and what it is possibly used for

Answer 1

Hi Wasabi,

It turns out there was a Channel One once upon a time--in 1945, to be precise, when the Federal Communications Commission first allocated broadcast television frequencies.

Later, however, the FCC repented its generosity and decided that TV was hogging too much of the broadcast spectrum. (Each TV channel requires a bandwidth 600 times as wide as an individual radio station does.) So the Channel One band (44 to 50 MHz) was reassigned for use by people with mobile radios.

Considering how things turned out, maybe they should have reassigned Channels 2 through 13 while they were at it. This would have spared us Green Acres, arguably the worst blow to civilization since the sack of Rome by the Huns.

If you really crave to see a Channel One, though, no prob. Other countries have them. One of the Teeming Millions, recently returned from living in Japan, says that in Tokyo Channel One is used for broadcasts of NHK-General, a Japanese public TV station.

Norm

Answer 2

There is no standard channel 1. Most cable televisions do have have it. If they added it, they can purpose it for many different things, including playing TV stations.

I am going to take a wild guess that your cable company has a channel 1 showing a kind of graph? If so, that would likely be a signal strength graph for use by home technicians.

If its not a graph, can you describe what you see? We don't all have your cable company, or even know what company it is.

Answer 3

it depends on sum degree how your channels are set up on your television, but its kinda of a void because there is really nothing there, its kinda a "black hole" in the matrix crt tube in your tv that is between two seperate channels. there is two video options before it, either for a camera or sum other accessory, and channel two after it.

Answer 4

it's for Comcast on Demand, if you subcribe to it, I think.

Answer 5

**idk** i have directv