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North American Cable Television Frequencies

Channels T-7 through T-14 are sub-band channels and are not used for normal television channel distribution. These channels are used for sending video back to the Cable Television Headend , such as by Public-access Television stations on a cable tv system. They are also used by Cable Modem s for sending upstream data to the headend's CMTS .

Cable channels 2 through 13 operate on the same frequencies as broadcast television (the VHF band).

Channels 100 to 125 can be used by analog cable systems, but frequency allocation is often inconsistent and not all televisions and VCRs can pick them up.

Digital cable channels are often numbered starting at 100 or 200, but these are virtual channel numbers and do not correspond to particular frequencies.

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ARRL - TV Channel, CATV and FM Broadcast Frequencies by Kevin K. Custer (W3KKC)

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North American Broadcast Television Frequencies