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Now largely a [[Forgotten Trope]] or [[Dead Horse Trope]], with satellite TV and digital OTA TV as [[Trope Breaker]]s.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the pattern of independent [[Struggling Broadcaster]]s landing on some of the worst spots on over-the-air TV by having a fictional "Channel U-62" struggle to broadcast [[Cloudcuckoolander]] nonsense as a [[No Budget]] operation in a desperate attempt to remain on-air. Effectively, the UHF station serves as a framing device, into which to insert a long series of [[Show Within a Show]] parodies, fake ads and bogus cinema trailers.▼
* CIVIC-TV 83 from ''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983) is a fairly obvious parody of the early CITY-TV 79 Toronto as independent [[No Budget]] [[Struggling Broadcaster]].▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Nancy Hicks-Gribble works for [[555|Channel 84]]. That's off the end of the dial (which never did go past 83) and could also be a joke on how "backwoodsy" Arlen is,
== [[Real Life]] ==
* In Japan, the [[Otaku O'Clock]] pattern of programming [[anime]] in the wee hours is closely associated with small, independent UHF outlets.
* In the US, educational [[PBS]], fourth commercial network [[Fox]] and Spanish-language [[Univision|Univisión]] rely disproportionately on UHF stations. Marginal network providers like [[Ion Television]], the [[infomercial]]s' own network, tend to own and operate disproportionate numbers of outlying UHF stations. See [[American Television Stations]] and [[Broadcasting in the United States]] for the history of these.
<!--** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] by [[PBS]] member stations WHYY 12 and WNET 13, who changed their intended community of licence to [[Delaware]] and [[New Jersey]] (respectively) to obtain the last available spots on the VHF TV dial.-->
* Ted Turner's [[Turner Broadcasting System|WTBS 17]] Atlanta was a [[Struggling Broadcaster]] in its early days as a UHF independent; the [[Perpetual Poverty]] ended when it was uplinked to satellite as a 'superstation' in [[The Seventies|the mid-1970s]].
▲* In ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the pattern of independent [[Struggling Broadcaster]]s landing on some of the worst spots on over-the-air TV by having a fictional "Channel U-62" struggle to broadcast [[Cloudcuckoolander]] nonsense as a [[No Budget]] operation in a desperate attempt to remain on-air. Effectively, the UHF station serves as a framing device, into which to insert a long series of [[Show Within a Show]] parodies, fake ads and bogus cinema trailers.
▲* CIVIC-TV 83 from ''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983) is a fairly obvious parody of the early CITY-TV 79 Toronto as independent [[No Budget]] [[Struggling Broadcaster]].
* Alas, [[Technology Marches On]]. The UK moved all of the telly channels to UHF during the transition from monochrome to colour. Many long-established North American network affiliates abandoned once-valuable low-VHF channels due to impulse noise and interference in the digital age; some of these channels are now used by no more than a dozen US full-service DTV broadcasters nationwide. As high-UHF channels are lost to mobile telephone companies, available channels for over-the-air HDTV are becoming increasingly scarce and the remaining UHF channels are valuable. The distinction in frequency has become less significant with modern equipment and with the widespread adoption of cable and satellite.
▲* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Nancy Hicks-Gribble works for [[555|Channel 84]]. That's off the end of the dial (which never did go past 83) and could also be a joke on how "backwoodsy" Arlen is, as low power stations in remote areas are/were usually stuck with the worst channel locations.
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