During the era of analog television, broadcast stations transmitted on a single universal channel however due to the technical complexities of the present digital television standard, most stations now transmit physically on an RF channel (or 'minor channel') that is mapped to a virtual channel (or 'major channel'), which вЂ“ with some exceptions вЂ“ typically differs from their physical allocation and corresponds to the station's former analog channel.

transmit on either VHF channels 2 through 13 or UHF channels 14 through 36. Individual broadcast television stations in the U.S. There are also competing video services on the World Wide Web, which have become an increasingly popular mode of television viewing since the late 2000s, particularly with younger audiences as an alternative or a supplement to the aforementioned traditional forms of viewing television content the 2010s saw the development of several virtual MVPD services offering 'skinny' tiers of channels originally developed for cable and satellite distribution at a reduced base price compared to providers using the more established pay television distribution methods. In the United States, television is available via broadcast (also known as 'over-the-air' or OTA) вЂ“ the earliest method of receiving television programming, which merely requires an antenna and an equipped internal or external tuner capable of picking up channels that transmit on the two principal broadcast bands, very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF), to receive the signal вЂ“ and four conventional types of multichannel subscription television: cable, unencrypted satellite (' free-to-air'), direct-broadcast satellite television and IPTV (internet protocol television).

1.1.4 Broadcast television in languages other than English.

1.1.2 Other over-the-air commercial television.

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