The built-in FM radio tuner is now considered a basic feature. It allows the user to listen to most of the live-broadcasted FM radio stations. Almost all phones with FM radio tuner require a wired ...

Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components and a wire long enough for the bands that the radio will receive.

We’re going to let you in on a little secret: Your smartphone has an FM radio built right into it. Why wouldn’t you know that? Turns out that on many phones ...

FM radio is facing attacks from streaming services but still reaches more Americans than smartphones and television. iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman is confident in FM radio and says he does not view ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Even as the number of available audio entertainment choices gets larger by the day, Americans still have a clear favorite: AM/FM. While streaming music has carved out a strong second-place position, ...

For many commercial broadcast radio has lost its luster, leaving an unknowable number of perfectly serviceable AM/FM radios to lie dormant. But they don’t have to. As [Dan Gebhardt] shows in his ...

HD Radio allows conventional (or terrestrial) AM and FM stations to broadcast their content over digital signals. Appropriating an abbreviation from high-definition TV, HD Radio offers better sound ...

This article was originally published in the Jan. 20, 2016 issue of Radio World Engineering Extra. “Milestones” is a series of reminiscences about notable radio technological developments. Some of us ...

You may not know it but most of today's smartphones have FM radios inside of them. But the FM chip is not activated on two-thirds of devices. That's because mobile makers have the FM capability ...