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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
I failed to mention, that from May,1964, all TV sets built for sale in the US had to equipped with UHF/VHF tuners. No matter if the set was the lowest priced B/W portable or the highest priced color set. It didn't matter if there was a UHF channel in the area or not.
The FCC wouldn't issue any more VHF licenses.  |
Yeah, I didn't know about the all-channel act when I was little, I only knew that every color set I had seen had UHF, and that every B&W set I had seen (to that point) did not.
Forgive this nitpick: The all-channel act did not forbid new VHF stations. VHF remained the preferred band where channels were still available (which, in major markets, were already taken), so new stations increasingly were UHF, but new VHF stations continued to pop up, even into this millennium (KCWX, for example).