old question: why isn't there a Channel 1?

[NoPegs]

Originally Posted by Colly0410

London's Crystal Palace transmitter blasted 200 KW's of ch 1 to South East England.

It also ran interference for Britain in the battle of the beams against the Nazi's 3rd attempt at radio-navigation and bombing, known as Y-Gerät. The Germans happened to pick ~45MHz for their system, and with minimal tweaking, London had one hell of a countermeasure available.