Editing Very high frequency (section)

===United Kingdom===
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British television originally used VHF [[band I]] and [[band III]]. Television on VHF was in black and white with [[405-line]] format (although there were experiments with all three colour systems-[[NTSC]], [[PAL]], and [[SECAM]]-adapted for the 405-line system in the late 1950s and early 1960s).

British colour television was broadcast on [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] (channels 21–69), beginning in the late 1960s. From then on, TV was broadcast on both VHF and UHF (VHF being a monochromatic downconversion from the 625-line colour signal), with the exception of [[BBC Two|BBC2]] (which had always broadcast solely on UHF). The last British VHF TV transmitters closed down on January 3, 1985. VHF [[band III]] is now used in the UK for [[digital audio broadcasting]], and VHF [[band II]] is used for [[FM radio]], as it is in most of the world.

Unusually, the UK has an [[amateur radio]] allocation at [[4 metres]], 70–70.5&nbsp;MHz.