Editing Very high frequency (section)

===New Zealand===
*44&ndash;51, 54&ndash;68&nbsp;MHz: [[Band I]] Television (channels 1&ndash;3)
*87.5&ndash;108&nbsp;MHz: [[Band II]] Radio
*118&ndash;137&nbsp;MHz: [[Airband]] for [[air traffic control]], [[Amplitude modulation|AM]]
**108&ndash;117.975&nbsp;MHz: Air navigation beacons [[VHF omnidirectional range|VOR]] and [[Instrument landing system|ILS]]
**121.5&nbsp;MHz is an emergency frequency
*144&ndash;148&nbsp;MHz: [[Amateur radio]] [[2-meter band]]
*156&ndash;162.2&nbsp;MHz: [[Marine VHF radio|Marine radio]] 
*174&ndash;230&nbsp;MHz: [[Band III]] Television (channels 4&ndash;11)

Until 2013, the four main free-to-air TV stations in [[New Zealand]] used the VHF television bands ([[Band I]] and [[Band III]]) to transmit to New Zealand households. Other stations, including a variety of pay and regional free-to-air stations, were forced to broadcast in the [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] band, since the VHF band had been very overloaded with four stations sharing a very small frequency band, which was so overcrowded that one or more channels would not be available in some smaller towns.

However, [[Digital changeover dates in New Zealand|at the end of 2013]], all television channels stopped broadcasting on the VHF bands, as New Zealand moved to digital television broadcasting, requiring all stations to either broadcast on UHF or satellite (where UHF was unavailable) utilising the [[Freeview (New Zealand)|Freeview]] service.<ref>{{cite web|title=Going Digital - When is my area going digital?|url=http://www.goingdigital.co.nz/making-the-switch/coverage-areas-2/coverage-areas.html|work=goingdigital.co.nz|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=20 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017073751/http://www.goingdigital.co.nz/making-the-switch/coverage-areas-2/coverage-areas.html|archive-date=17 October 2011}}</ref>

Refer to [[Australasian television frequencies]] for more information.