Along this line, and at the risk of perhaps being slightly OT, if anyone
> knows why television uses channels while radio uses frequencies (for the
> most part, that is, the 88 channel) FM Marine Band in the 156 MHz range
> being an exception), I would be interested in hearing about it.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the FCC does actually have official channel numbers for each allocation in the AM and FM broadcast bands, even though they're rarely used.