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- Zopmaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Wow, good read.
I love wikipedia - dizzley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I love it. Especially the geek quotient it has with the frequency allocations and all.
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Booo i hate channel one news... very very BIAS!
- DubbleA, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I get a Channel One...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_News - treymdnc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Very interesting. Wiki continues to amaze my stupid-ass. If I had a TV station I would have a UHF station like Weird Al in the movie of the same name.
Raffle! - an0nym0us, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The rest of the world != USA
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Nanu nanu
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What about New York 1?
- ZekeSulastin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ya know, maybe if the submitter had mentioned it was OVER THE AIR BROADCAST channel 1 (BTW, cable doesn't count for this, as the cable company is pretty much able to delineate any number - Hanover Cable (now SusCom) in PA had pr0n on channel 1 ...)
"In the 1980s, the channels from 70 on up (from 806 to 890 MHz) were removed for AMPS mobile phone services (leading to one side of some conversations being heard on older TV sets)." I heard several interesting conversations because of this - back in PA, I had an older color tv that picked these transmissions up :P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's completely irrelevent though, since this article applies to the USA.
- fr34k5h0w, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6They still have paper view! It's available at an office near you and even at home. Also, you can pay for paper view. For a petty amount, you can view papers such as "The New York Times" and "The Wall Street Journal". It's quite amazing I dare say.
- tktk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As a kid, I was told that they didn't want any broadcasting company to use the slogan "We're Number 1!" or some such variation.
It seemed like a good explanation at the time, so I never thought about it again. Til now.
Course, if I had gotten the correct answer, I wouldn't have understood anything about frequencies. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh God! The horrific memories! We took a current events test in my middle school when I was in sixth grade, and the school failed, so they had a mandatory 15 minute 'Channel 1 News' watching period every day. It was so horrible. I don't think it's possible to have worse news in the world. What's worse is that we watched tapes, so all our news was a day or two late.
- Zeusandhera, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I like the Mork and Mindy Reference near the end.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As much as I hate the lame/dupe-police --
Why not just go and put every wikipedia article on Digg? - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well the article says its about the "non-existent United States TV channel". Submitters fault for not mentioning that.
- justinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Those days TV channels represent frequencies, but now these 'channel' numbers are only memory preset numbers of tuned frequency positions, which can even start from 0.
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6On Demand
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You have to love the answers parents and teachers give to cover up that fact they they don't know.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People don't like ALL CAPS
- meefman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My life is now complete. Dugg.
- Lostcosmos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://digg.com/technology/WHAT_EVER_HAPPENED_TO_CHANNEL_1_
- krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Badgers? Badgers?!? BADGERS?!? We don't need no stinking BADGERS!!!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges - AUGTRON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah I still don't get it.
- yagoogaly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought I saw this a while back.
- ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow! You must know everything about TV's. Well, for 50 or so years before you were a TV tech, TV's did _not_ have a channel 1.
- emostar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, you would have no idea that it was about the US from looking at the title and description.
The reason I said that is to draw attention to the fact that there is more than one country in the world, so when you are submitting news to an INTERNATIONAL site, you should make it clear. - brianb722, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ha. Makes sense to me!
- JAppi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds like a plan.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes
- pilot3033, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was I wondering about that myself. NY1 I always thought was a Network, is it actually part of Cable?
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who buried my story? Why? I'm insulted.
- BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Shazbot!
- SergeantSavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ha thats pretty funny, nice dude.
- marksy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2totally agree..
- bobertfishbone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"
I find this particularly applicable here. - the_snitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im from NZ too, but you dont have to sound like a douchebag and go way off topic for some shameless promotion.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1To answer the questions of those who didn't read TFA, this applies only to North American Broadcast standards. Maybe not to Japan, and definitely not to cable and satellite.
- perfectsquare, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4My TV has channel 1...maybe the title should be "why channel 1 isn't broadcast on"?
You don't have channel 1 if you auto-programmed your tv. But, every tv I've seen has channel 1. And I was a TV tech, back in the 90s. >_<
How did something like this make it to the front page? - scoobydum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Always wondered why there was no channel 1 - Thanks for finding that
- techiet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a channel one, and I live in the US.
It's the food service for low income families in my area. - latinchulovip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1we have a channel 1 on new york
- fr34k5h0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe there's this thing called cable. It doesn't run with Over the Air frequencies. It's kinda hooked into this cable that they run into your house. Cable can have channel one. Antenna is not *supposed* to have channel one.
- tupuli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"You have to love the answers parents and teachers give to cover up that fact they they don't know."
I agree, it's sad. I wish they would just stop filling kids' heads with nonsense like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Jesus, and the Easter Bunny. - PRESS_00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The submission needs a better description summarising the wiki article. I'm browsing through many digg articles at once and don't always have time to read through the Whole article.
Anywho, there's not much to debate for channel 1 so no digg. - crazyman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's amazing and I did always wonder that.
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3OMG! there is a reason???
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I agree, I have no idea what all that television technicality frequency this, UHF that mumbo jumbo means. Get to the point!
- joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Why US TV's do not have channel 1"..... reported as inaccurate.
- marksy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yes... New Zealand has Channel One.
im glad Paul Holmes isnt on Channel One anymore.. Ever since his ratings dived after "cheeky darky" and his debarkle of a music "album"...
Tux Wonder Dogs, The Office (UK), Top Town, The Young Ones, and Bottom were great on Channel One..
Also, Channel One used to be NZ's first, and only channel before 1985 -/
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