Australia NEVER had a Channel 1. It was reserved by the US Govt at about the same time as our rollout, so we got 5A instead.
Anyone Here Old Enough To Remember When There Was Actually A Channel 1? Maru
(as in the channels were 0 2 3 4 5 5A 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13)
At the time, anyone within VHF range of a capital city got 4 channels, anyone outside that got 1 (Govt) channel.
Took decades to get to 2 channels outside capitals, now everywhere has 5 channels (2 Govt) plus any PBS style stations.
Even on cable / satellite I think we only have about 40-50 channels.
I'm always fascinated by American TV - I sit in a hotel room at 7pm, start flicking through channels, and by the time I decide on one, it's 7:30 and I have to start the process all over again....
Cheers
Russell C.
BTW Our first TV came with a remote control which did channels, volume and on/off, but was attached by a cable running across the floor. The nifty feature about it was it had a speaker built into it so you could watch TV without annoying the rest of the family, who were still doing the sorts of things families did before TV invaded our lives.
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