Television channel frequencies

International normalization for analog TV systems

VHF

Americas (most countries), South Korea, Taiwan, Myanmar, and the Philippines

Assignments since February 25, 1946

• System M 525 lines
• System N 625 lines
• FM channel 200, 87.9 MHz, overlaps TV 6. This is used only by K200AA.
• TV 6 analog audio can be heard on FM 87.75 on most broadcast radio receivers as well as on a European TV tuned to channel E4A or channel IC, but at lower volume than wideband FM broadcast stations, because of the lower deviation.
• Channel 1 audio is the same as European Channel E2 audio and the video is the same as European Channel E2A. Channel 2 video is the same as European Channel E3 video.

Japan

• The frequency spacing for each channel is 6 MHz as [|the countries above], except between channels 7 and 8.
• Channels 1 through 3 are reallocated for the expansion of the FM band.

United Kingdom, Ireland, and Hong Kong

Ireland

• Channel A was never used terrestrially. The only System I Band I transmitter on Channel B was RTÉ One from the Maghera, Co. Clare transmitter during 1963–1999. Channel A was initially intended for use at Maghera but Channel B was used instead because of the risk of interference to reception of BBC 405 line transmissions. It was moved to Channel E due to interference from distant transmitters on channel E3 and Italian channel IA via certain atmospheric conditions and other reasons. Channel C was used by a relay transmitter in Glanmire, Co. Cork.
• Channel B video is the same as Italian Channel IA video and Channel C audio is the same as Channel E4 audio.
• There are currently no Band I Channels used in Ireland and no plans to resume using them.
• Most Irish Cable TV systems do not follow the above channel plan as their analogue carriers are usually at multiples of 8 MHz

Western Europe; Greenland; and most countries in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

• Channels 1 and 1A were used for early experimental broadcasts and are no longer allocated.
• Channels 15 and 16 are allocated for use in the African Broadcasting Area only.
• Channel 2A was only ever used in Austria for the Sendeturm Jauerling to avoid interferences with neighboring Eastern European TV stations.
• Channel 3 in Belgium, RTBF 1 broadcast from the Liège transmitter with 100 kW until the switchover to DVB-T.
• Channel 12 was reserved by the military in some countries so only relay transmitters operated on this frequency.
• Channel 4A audio carrier's frequency is very close to US Channel 6 audio carrier and overlaps the FM band in Europe.

France

• Channel 1 used an earlier 441-line system and was discontinued in 1956.

Italy

• Channels A through H are indicated in many European TVs as Channels 13–20.
• Channels B, C, D, H, H1, and H2 are identical to Channels E4, E4A, E5, E10, E11, and E12, respectively.
• Channel A video carrier is the same as Channel E2 audio carrier and thus it used to be common that the audio from a distant TV station on channel E2 received via Sporadic E interferes with Channel A video and vice versa.
• Channel C audio carrier's frequency falls into the FM band in Europe, and is also identical to American A6 channel audio.

Eastern Europe, North Korea

East Germany (former DDR)

• From 1960 onwards European standard channels were adopted.

Australia

New Zealand and Indonesia

• VHF analog TV ceased in New Zealand on 1 December 2013.
• Channels 10 and 11 weren't added until the late 1980s.
• VHF analog TV channel 1A is only used in Indonesia.
• VHF is currently no longer used for television in Indonesia and only UHF is used for both analog and digital television, as in the UK.

UHF

Americas (most countries), South Korea, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar) and the Philippines

• The frequencies used by UHF channels 70 through 83 were reallocated to the Land Mobile Radio System and mobile phones in a CCIR worldwide convention in 1982, and thus were never used for digital TV but are highlighted in cyan and listed here for theoretical use.
• In certain metropolitan areas of the United States, Channels 14 through 20 have been allocated to Land Mobile Radio use.
• Channels 52 through 69 in the United States have been reallocated now that conversion to digital TV was completed on June 12, 2009. These channels are highlighted in yellow. Channels 70 through 83 in the United States and Canada were re-allocated to AMPS cellular phone use in 1983.
• On August 22, 2011, the United States' Federal Communications Commission announced a freeze on all future applications for broadcast stations requesting to use channel 51, to prevent adjacent-channel interference to the A-Block of the 700 MHz band. Later that year, Industry Canada and the CRTC followed suit in placing a moratorium on future television stations using Channel 51 for broadcast use, to prevent adjacent-channel interference to the A-Block of the 700 MHz band.
• Not all countries listed use ATSC, which has a single VSB carrier wave. Other countries use COFDM modulation for DVB-T or ISDB-Tb, which has dozens of carriers within the channel. Burma uses DVB-T2 on 8 MHz channel spacing on Western Europe / Asia DTV frequency along with Southeast Asian countries.
• ISDB-Tb frequency DTV channel 14 uses 473.142857 MHz, but ATSC 3.0, DVB-T/DVB-T2, and DTMB, use 473.0 MHz.
• Channel 37 is reserved for radio astronomy in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Belize, and the Bahamas, thus there are no television stations assigned to it. Mexico also informally observes a ban on transmitters using this channel.
• Due to the FCC repack in the United States, all TV stations that had been broadcasting from channels 38 to 51 were required to move on or below channel 36 by July 3, 2020. As a result, channels 38-51 are highlighted in magenta. These frequencies would later be used by U.S. mobile carriers like T-Mobile on Band 71.

Japan

United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Falkland Islands and Southern Africa

• Channels 21 to 60 used for DVB-T Digital TV broadcasting in the UK, with the exception of Channel 38, which is used for programme making and special events. Channels 61 to 69 used for 4G LTE.
• Channel 69 was not used for TV broadcasting in the UK, it was used by the MOD and until 2012 for programme making and special events.
• PAL I was withdrawn from broadcasting use in the UK during 2012 and 2013.

Western Europe, Greenland, most countries in Asia and Africa, and most of Oceania

• Former channels 14 to 18 renumbered as 21 to 25 in 1961.
• Channels 70 to 81 no longer allocated to television. They were only used in Italy.

France, Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union, French overseas territories and former French colonies in Africa, North Korea, Vietnam

• Some cable television providers in Vietnam may use System G.

Australia

Mainland China