# Channel One **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 6, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791 "2005-11-06T14:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mtbai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mtbai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtbai)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/1 "2005-11-06T14:24:02Z")
Hey, I liked Green Acres…does that make me a hick-wannabe ? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/2 "2005-11-06T14:38:47Z")
It would be helpful if you would provide a link to the column in question. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/3 "2005-11-06T14:49:31Z")
Here is the article: [Why is there no Channel One on television?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_372b.html) ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/4 "2005-11-06T14:51:03Z")
Interestingly enough, now in schools, school districts can sign up for a service that provides video feeds to classrooms, including a daily 15-minute informative news broadcast. The name of the service? Channel One. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/5 "2005-11-06T18:10:39Z")
But it’s a satellite service, and not actually one channel anything. ChannelOne is just a cool sounding name. The place is also run by the biggest bunch of idiots on the face of the earth. Fortunately I do not work for them any more. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/6 "2005-11-06T18:11:58Z")
Oh, and on the NYC cable system, channel one is a local news station. ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/7 "2005-11-06T23:28:33Z")
Channel 1 (and channel 0 and channel -1 and VHF channels 14 and up, which are different from the UHF channels with the same numbers) are all available on cable, since the rival uses apply only to over-the-air. Different cable channels make different uses of them. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/8 "2005-11-07T00:15:11Z")
> [@John W. Kennedy](#): > > Channel 1 (and channel 0 and channel -1 and VHF channels 14 and up, which are different from the UHF channels with the same numbers) are all available on cable, since the rival uses apply only to over-the-air. Different cable channels make different uses of them. If I go to “channel one” on my Time Warner Cable in Akron Ohio, I get…nothing. Snow. Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/channel-one/329791/9 "2005-11-07T18:19:45Z")
In the Chicago area (at least), Comcast cable uses Channel 1 for their OnDemand service – streaming-video-over-cable, some of which is pay-per-view. Before they introduced the service, that channel was empty.