Digital Cable Channels
Digital television receivers with integrated QAM tuners use ATSC conventions for numbering channels; unlabelled channels would appear as a main channel number, separated by a dot or dash, then a digital subchannel number. For instance, this may display as a physical converter channel number, a dot or dash, then a virtual channel number as it appeared on a digital cable set-top box. As there is no requirement that any specific convention be used to number digital or virtual channels, numbering is at the discretion of the cable operator. Digital cable channels are often numbered starting at 100 or 200, but these are virtual channel numbers and do not correspond to used frequencies.
Read more about this topic: North American Cable Television Frequencies
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