Abstract: A tuner, for example, for a television receiver, includes a UHF and a VHF section and a mixer oscillator stage. It is known that the VHF frequency band has to be split in at least two parts to handle the VHF signals. To that end, the mixer oscillator stage uses two separate VHF oscillators and a detector to switch tuned parts of the VHF section. In this way, the performance of the tuner is improved.

Abstract: Ordinarily, at least two types of mixer oscillator integrated circuits for tuners have to be used, i.e., one for the symmetrical output mode and one for the asymmetrical output mode. In order to handle both output modes, a tuner includes a switching circuit, whereby, in the asymmetrical mode, one output of the tuner is coupled to ground.

Abstract: In a television receiver including a frequency synthesis circuit (33) controlled by a phase detection circuit (21), in which an adjustable frequency divider (15) receives a tuning datum which is corrigible by means of an AFC circuit (119, 129), a synchronous video signal detector (57) with a reference signal oscillator (97) are used, while the AFC detector is a counter (119) which is coupled via a measuring gate (115) to an output (99) of the reference signal oscillator, and the measuring gate (115) is operatd by a measuring gate signal having an accurate periodicity being derived from a received television signal, so that a minimum possible number of terminals on an integrated circuit is sufficient.