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My understanding is that FM is in the mid-VHF range)
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Actually, it's immediately adjacent to channel 6. Had the FM band been used for 6 MHz-wide TV channels and had the channel numbers run continuously, it would have occupied channels 7, 8, 9, and part of 10. Our current channel 7 would have actually been numbered around 19 or 20. There's an 86 MHz gap between channel 6 & channel 7, enough spectrum for 16 TV channels. Of course, that chunk of frequencies found other uses including FM radio, aircraft, and a number of other services.