UHF television broadcasting
![This mast has two UHF antennas for receiving signals from different directions. The lower antenna is an bowtie array, a typical modern UHF antenna. The upper antenna is a Yagi design that is generally used only in special circumstances, but used to be more common.](/Images/godic/202502/18/Antena_de_televisión_digital_abierta4511.JPG")
![This modern DTV antenna uses a Yagi for UHF reception placed in front of a log-periodic for VHF-high. Although the UHF band has five times as many channels as VHF, the antenna needed to receive them is much smaller in both length and width. An older design that also received VHF-low would have many more elements extending to the right.](/Images/godic/202502/18/Digital-tv-antenna-620x4004511.jpg")
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UHF television broadcasting is the use of ultra high frequency (UHF) radio for over-the-air transmission of television signals. UHF frequencies are used for both analog and digital television broadcasts. UHF channels are typically given higher channel numbers, like the US arrangement with VHF channels 2 to 13, and UHF channels numbered 14 to 83.