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In the early 1970's my parents bought a Sony KV1800: It only had a UHF rotary tuner (which were very unusual on English sets) but there was a square blanking plate just below where I presume a VHF tuner would have gone if it went anywhere else in the world but England. Most English made single standard 625 kines sets back then had push button UHF only tuners with 4 buttons that could tune to any UHF broadcast channel, they were marked from top to bottom: BBC1, BBC2, ITV & the fourth button would on some sets say ITV2, (there never was an ITV2 back then, there is now though) & some with just a * on it. People living in ITV overlap areas could receive an alternative ITV station & this was tuned in on button 4. When channel 4 (channel 4 was the station name not the broadcast channel, it was broadcast from hundreds of transmitters on nearly all UHF channels) fired up in 1982 that was then tuned to button 4, people who had previously tuned it to another ITV TX were then chockered. Later sets had 6 or 8 buttons on their tuners, then came remote controls...
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