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The UK and New Zealand until recently shared an FM broadcasting allocation of 88.0–105.0 MHz. This allocation can be traced to the 405 line system's VHF allocation. NZ considered adopting the 405 line system, but adopted PAL instead – but the frequency allocation issue was not fixed until the late 1990s. because the UK's allocation for 405 line TV was set up before the FM allocation, this resulted in the UK allocation possessing 2 MHz less spectrum.

This is complete nonsense. 405 line TV (at least in Britain) never used any frequencies in the 87.6 MHz to 107.9 MHz range. The reason FM broadcasting in Britain remained underdeveloped for several decades was down to the strange government policy of allocating large sections of the band to two way radio including (rather insanely) police communications. Gradually the folly of this arrangment began to dawn on the powers that be and mobile radio was (painfully) slowly moved out of the broadcast band to accomodate new local (and later national) services (and to allow existing AM services to move to FM) however this process took almost 24 years and some of the banished mobile radio services wound up on the former (in the UK) television band 3 !?!?!?! 86.112.238.24 (talk) 18:31, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's complete balls. I've rewritten it. --Harumphy (talk) 08:05, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 July 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to FM broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The result of the discussion was Moved.

FM Switchoff

This section needs an update / re-write.

The current UK government plans are that if Digital Listening hits the right threshold, to 'migrate' national and regional broadcasters off the FM Band. Small scale and Community Radio broadcasters will stay using the FM band.

When time permits I'll have a go at a re-write, but if anyone else has time in the meantime. Philedmondsuk (talk) 11:29, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 27 July 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) SilverLocust 💬 12:48, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FM broadcasting in the UK → FM broadcasting in the United Kingdom – I think this article should mention the subject country's name in full as is the normal naming convention for most other articles detailing x in [country]. Slender (talk) 11:36, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support. We generally expand UK to United Kingdom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.