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Originally Posted by kramden66
That's a nice piece.
Why only 1 channel ?
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Until 1970, there was only one television channel in Poland. On October 2, 1970, when the second program of Telewizja Polska was broadcast, the chairman of the Radio Committee, Włodzimierz Sokorski, announced during a ceremonial speech that the launch of the new program was an expression of "concern for the nation's education and culture". The Two was initially an educational program that broadcast mainly science and education programs, including language learning; that is why "Dwójka" also broadcast foreign films in the original version in series such as "Cinema of the original version" or the slightly later "Cinema of polyglots". It was also intended to promote the achievements of theater, film and good entertainment.
The second channel also broadcast program blocks devoted to the countries of "people's democracy", such as the Day of Czechoslovakia, Day of Yugoslavia, where documentaries and fictional films as well as entertainment programs from these countries were broadcast, but some Western countries were also presented (eg French Day, Austrian Day).
Therefore, before 1970, it was enough for the TV set to have only one channel, and the frequency was set by replacing the cartridge in the service, depending on the region in which the TV set was installed. This "saving" concerned only two models of TV sets produced in Poland - around 1956-1957 "Wisła" and around 1962-1963 "Pegaz".
The audio-video gap was 6.5MHz. The sound was broadcast with frequency modulation.