Re: 625-Line Television Broadcast Standards
Generally speaking the Irish don't like the term "Eire" being used in English for political reasons that are not appropriate to discuss here. I suspect that System I was named as such as Ireland was the first country to use the standard in 1962, two years before the BBC. Telefis Eireann's implementation of System I was different insofar that it was used on VHF (with letters A-I for the channel numbers) rather than UHF.
Had the UK adopted VHF 625 line TV the channels would have used the same letters as the Irish I suspect.
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