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Originally Posted by Synchrodyne
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Fascinating!
I guess that when TV was first started - pre-WWII - there were no 'standards' and you just asked the Postmaster General [or his local equivalent] to allocate you some bandwidth... up in those odd "VHF" frequencies where nothing-else is really happening anyway [sssh... don't mention RADAR!]
Historically, part of me wonders if early-TV could have been developed with vision on VHF but sound on MW: it would have made TV receivers cheaper if they didn't need to include a sound-strip, and could have also excited consumer-interest if people had been able to listen to the audio-channel of TV broadcasts on their existing MW/LW radios.