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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Channels 70-83, however, were reassigned in 1970 to land-mobile and other non-video services; these channels were formerly used by translators and even by some commercial TV stations, when those stations first signed on. (I think Youngstown's WFMJ-TV channel 21, for example, was on channel 73 when it began service to the Mahoning Valley area; however, I don't know when the switch was made to channel 21.)
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I'm puzzled. I had always understood 83-channel sets were sold up until the 1990's to make room for analog cellular phones. One could occasionally pick up a single side of the analog phone calls on old sets (being two-channel duplex). I don't recall seeing my first 2-69 set until well after knob-tuned sets were phased out. What was the initial changeover to 2-69?