"Stephanie Weil" wrote in message
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Early domestic-market Western European FM radios would cover 88 - 100.
Then the band was stretched to 104 in the 60s. In the late 1970s/
early 1980s, the band was stretched out to its current 108 MHz.

True export models would cover the entire FM band 88-108. Any radio
that only covered the 88-100 or 88-104 bands seen in the Americas were
brought over by immigrants.

The European radios in Ecuador, which were the majority in 1966, were known
brands like Telefunken and Grundig. Since there were no FM stations, there
were only about 16, 000 of them then. Almost all were 88 to 100 MHz,
including theone in my home. Most were consoles, with a record changer and
all... in a credenza sized piece of furniture that, then, cost about $500 or
more.

Domestic Japanese-market radios cover the FM band from 76 to 91. I
should know, I have a couple Japanese-market FM radios. The band
between 91 and 108 is used for VHF TV audio channels 1, 2 and 3.

The export ones in LAtin America must have been ones intended for other
markets, as they were 76 to 100. Not many of them, though.

Eastern-European/Russian FM radios cover the 66-74 megahertz band.
That would be what we use for TV audio for Channel 2, 3 and 4.

Never saw one of these, although the Czechs often tried to sell me
transmitters full of Svetlanas.

Using a Japanese radio, you can pick up USA TV audio channels 5 and 6.

A friend did some consulting for J-Wave, an FM in Tokyo. They gave him a
radio. It tunes the non-com band nicely, of course.