Why do we refer to radio 'stations' but television 'channels'?

Analog television used two carrier frequencies for each channel, one for video and one for sound. For example, channel 2 in the Americas was 55.250 MHz (video) and 59.750 MHz (sound). read more

The FM channel numbering system worked as follows; 87.9 MHz was channel 200; 88.1 MHz was channel 201; 88.3 MHz was channel 202, and so on. Today, only the FCC uses FM channel numbers. read more

Many traditional newspapers, TV news stations and radio stations now also have an Internet counterpart where people can go to get news digitally, or to interact with the news program. Internet news is different from the kind of news one can get more traditionally from newspapers, radio, TV and radio. read more

A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television. read more