Finding a station from its FM frequency
Search the number itself, because most stations write their dial position into their own name.
Why a frequency is not an address
The FM band in most of the world runs from 87.5 to 108 megahertz and is reused every few hundred kilometres. That reuse is the design: a frequency names a place on the dial within range of one transmitter, not a station. Two towns a morning drive apart can put entirely different stations on 90.1 and neither is doing anything unusual.
So a bare number is closer to a house number with no street: precise once somebody tells you the town, useless on its own. One extra word, the country, the city, or the call letters you half remember, does more work than anything else you can type.
No catalogue records the frequency, and it still works
The honest limit first. No frequency is recorded anywhere in this directory. The catalogue carries a station name, a country, a language, a stream address, a bitrate and a codec, and that is the whole of it. A site implying it could turn a number into a transmitter would be inventing a capability it has no way to deliver.
What saves it is a naming habit. Stations write their dial position into their own names constantly, and they put it in all three places: at the start, the way many American and Filipino stations are branded, at the end, which dominates across Latin America, Brazil and India, and buried in the middle beside a city or a network. That is why the search box here matches anywhere in a name rather than only at the start.
How to run the search
Put the frequency into the search box at the top of the station directory, with the decimal point, and try the comma form too if the country writes the dial that way. Then add one more word: the country, the city or the call letters. A station result plays where it stands rather than making you open another page.
If the number finds nothing, open the country hub instead. That is the step that always works, because the station is very likely listed there under a brand name with no figure in it, with the most listened to stations at the top.
AM, DAB, and the stations with no number at all
The same principle covers AM and works less often, because AM stations put the number in their name less consistently, and a broadcaster carried on both usually brands itself after the FM figure. DAB has no dial number at all: a DAB station has a multiplex and a programme name, and the name is what people remember.
A growing share of any radio directory never had a frequency at all: an internet only station has no transmitter, so it is named after what it plays. If you are looking for a station you grew up with rather than one in a particular city, the language shelves get you there faster than any number, because they show where a language is actually broadcast from.
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All answersCommon questions
- Can I find a radio station online using only its FM frequency?
- Often, but not because the frequency is recorded anywhere. Stations write their dial position into their own name constantly, and a directory search matches on the name, so typing the number finds every station that named itself after it. Add a country or a city to narrow it, because the same frequency is in use all over the world.
- Why does one frequency match stations in several countries?
- Because a frequency is a local address, not a global one. The FM band is only about twenty megahertz wide and it is reused every few hundred kilometres, so the same number belongs to hundreds of different stations worldwide. Nothing about 90.1 identifies a station until you say where you are standing.
- Does this directory record what frequency a station broadcasts on?
- No. The catalogue carries the station name, country, language, stream address, bitrate and codec, and no frequency field at all. Everything this page says about frequencies is counted from station names, and it says so rather than implying we have data we do not have.
- The number finds nothing. What now?
- Open the country page and look for the brand name instead. Plenty of stations never put the number in their name, and many more are known on air by a word rather than a figure. Call letters are worth trying too, since a lot of stations in the Americas and the Philippines are listed under theirs.
- Does this work for AM or shortwave frequencies?
- Sometimes, and less often. The same principle applies, which is that the number has to be in the name to be findable, and AM stations put it there less consistently than FM ones do. A station that broadcasts on both usually names itself after the FM figure.
- Is the station I hear on FM the same as the stream here?
- Nearly always the same programme, and nearly never the same quality. The stream is a separate encode at whatever bitrate the station pays for, which is printed on every station page here, and a few broadcasters run a different schedule online where a rights holder requires it.
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