I’m guessing you’ve got it set up for cable as Tamex says. In NYC cable channel 1 is a local news station.
Our Philips/Magnavox is channel 1 capable and it has nothing to do with the video input. It doesn’t work with the cable either, our cable provider only uses channel 1 for the digital signal.
Was your TV intended for use in other countries besides the U.S.?
Which leads me to ask if channel 1 is used in other countries?
I bought it from Best Buy. If it’s grey market, I’ll eat my remote.
Anyway, I’ve solved it. I’d inadvertently set it to cable tuning, instead of TV. :smack: When set to TV tuning, it refuses to accept channel 1, just like a good American set.
My three year old tv gets channel 1, but there is nothing on it but static. It’s also a Zenith so it may be because of the japanese.
Q.E.D., I think that the old channel 1 occupied 48-54 MHz, not 50-56 MHz.
Derleth, IIRC, the VHF channel frequencies are the same whether the set is in “cable tuning” mode or “TV tuning” mode. Which means that if you switch it to “cable tuning” mode and plug rabbit ears into the “cable in” connector, you would receive channel 1, if it were still in use as a TV broadcast channel. The only way that you would hear anything is if, while you were connected this way, a Ham radio operator were to transmit on 53.75 MHz.
Well, we were both wrong:
From this page.
I have Channel 1 on my Magnavox, set to cable tuning. I get loud audio static and a heavily snowy image of what’s on Channel 5. But it has been used in the past, by one of the many cable companies that have paraded through San Francisco, for free previews of the premium channels.