Why is there not a chanel one on cable?

Question

its a question iv always wanted to know

Answer 1

The original channel 1 in the US was eliminated due to two reasons.  First when it was only over the air it was subject to signal skip over large distances due to its assigned frequencies.  Second the Federal Communications Commission took part of the Amateur Radio band away to create CB radio.  So in exchange the FCC gave Amateur Radio Operators the frequency band that was assigned to channel 1.  This makes it unsuitable for cable if your neighbor has a licensed Amateur Radio on those frequencies.  Any cable box that is saying channel 1 is most likely a digital box using reassigned numbers for its digital virtual channels (which can be on any frequency that the cable can carry).

Answer 2

Some cable systems do have a channel 1.

In the US, there once was a broadcast channel 1. But since it hadn't been used, cable decided not to use it either.

Cable TV can and does move frequencies and channels around.

Answer 3

well it depends on at cable u h vae(comcast,dirict tv,etc)

on most of them channel one is used to buy shows,movies on demand

Answer 4

Channel 1 was deleted from the authorized TV broadcast channels  by the  government during the mid 1940;s. It was needed for other broadcast services.  It was never restored.

A regular TV set cannot pick up channel one and the original idea of cable was reception without the need of external equipment.

With the advent of digital TV and converter boxes needed for receiving some channels, cable system can and do put on programming on channel one.  It is most likely some sort of on demand service that you need a converter/cable box to get.

Cable TV moves channels around.  Did you know that between TV channels 6 and 7 is the entire FM broadcast band, plus air traffic control services, ham radio, and other broadcast services.  Cable TV uses the gap for channels 14 - 22. and channels 95 - 99.

More History of channel 1

The channel 1 bandwith of 44-50 MHz was used for over-air broadcasting from 1938-1940.

In 1940, FM radio was assigned the band 42-50 MHz so channel 1 was reassigned the bandwidth of 50-56 MHz as one of the 18 channel television allocations.

In 1945, the FCC decided to only allocate 13 channels designated to television (That is why you see the old tvs with 2 -13 channels on the dial). The FCC also reassigned FM radio to the 88-106 MHz bandwidth and channel 1 was moved back to the 44-50MHz band in 1946 but was restricted to 1000 watts power and was only used as a local community channel.

With the tv boom of the late 40s, interference problems arose due to television channels sharing the bandwidth with fixed and mobile services and the FCC determined that fixed and mobile services needed their own designated bandwidth. So the FCC forced television to give up one of the channels and channel 1 (44-50MHz) became the 'lost' channel to fixed and mobile services.

The FCC decided not to renumber the channels and channel 1 was officially gone and that is why there is noTV programming on channel 1 or the 44-50MHz bandwidth.