Similar reservations exist in portions of the Eurasian and Asian regions, although the channel numbering varies.
This band is particularly important to radio astronomy because it allows observation in a region of the spectrum in between the dedicated frequency allocations near 410 MHz and 1.4 GHz.
Rivers received the CP on February 26, 1953, but WGOV-TV never made it to the air; on October 28, 1955, they requested an allocation on channel 8, but the petition was denied.
As a result of this, and similar actions by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Channel 37 has never been used by any over-the-air television station in Canada or the United States.
The low-power WNWT-LD in New York was given virtual channel 37 in August 2019, thus becoming the first American station to be so assigned via the digital television PSIP standard.
Reservations and use outside the US have a non-exclusive legal status The 2016-2021 repack left no US, Canadian, and Mexican OTA TV broadcasters above UHF 36.
[clarification needed] The equipment must emit no more than one watt of effective radiated power and is for use in hospitals and other such facilities.