A tuner is provided for selecting a channel from a broadband radio
frequency input signal containing a plurality of channels, such as a
terrestrial broadcast signal. The tuner has an input which supplies the
broadband signal to a filter. The output of the filter is connected to a
mixer of a single frequency changer, which converts the selected channel
to a predetermined non-zero intermediate frequency. The filter is a
tracking radio frequency filter which tracks the frequency of the
selected channel so as to attenuate the image channel. A controller
receives from a demodulator a signal representing reception quality, such
as bit error rate, and adjusts the tracking of the filter so as to
achieve acceptable reception quality, such as an adequately low bit error
rate. Alignment of the filter during manufacture is not, therefore,
required.