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Where is TV Channel 1 in USA?


In the 1940s, the FCC assigned TV's Channel 1 to mobile services (radios in taxicabs, for example) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why in the US why TV sets have channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
 
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