Broadcast bands around the world

Throughout the world, the broadcast band is 87.5 to 108.0 MHz, or some portion thereof. In the U.S. it is 87.9 to 107.9 MHz. Japan is the only exception, using exclusively its own unique 76 to 90 MHz band with 0.1 MHz channel spacing.

In the former Soviet republics, and some Eastern Bloc nations, an additional older band from 65.9 to 74 MHz is also used. Assigned frequencies are at intervals of 30 kHz. This band, sometimes referred to as the OIRT band, is slowly being phased out in many countries.

The frequency of an FM broadcast station (more strictly its assigned nominal centre frequency) is usually an exact multiple of 100 kHz. In most of the Americas and Caribbean only odd multiples are used. In some parts of Europe, Greenland and Africa only even multiples are used. In Italy, "half-channel"
multiples of 50 kHz are used. There are other unusual and obsolescent standards in some countries including 0.001, 0.01, 0.03, 0.074, and 0.3 MHz.

For more information on FM frequency allocations, see FM broadcast band.