In the United States and Canada, TV channel 37 occupies a band of frequencies from 608 to 614 MHz...or, rather, it doesn't. Channel 37 has never been used by any over-the-air television station in North America, as it was reserved in 1963 for radioastronomy and (since July 2000) for medical telemetry equipment on a co-primary basis. Channel 37 is sometimes seen in fiction, the same way phone numbers with the "555" exchange are used. See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... Microwave image of 3C353 galaxy at 8. ... In North America, telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious phone numbers in television shows, films and other types of fictional media. ...

Outside North America, Channel 37 is active: in the Phillipines (UNTV Channel 37); in the UK (many transmitters used by the Five network actually broadcast on channel 37); and in France and Ireland, among other countries. unTV Channel 37 is a UHF television channel in the Philippines operated by the Progressive Broadcasting Corporation, the same company that operates the NU 107 network of FM stations. ... Five, formerly known as Channel 5, is the United Kingdoms fifth national terrestrial TV Channel. ...

External links

• "The Last Empty Channel" by Andrew Dart: [1]
• A short article on channel 37 and channels above 69, which were supposed to been phased out in the 1970s: [2]