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 ...

With streaming services multiplying and habits fragmenting, radio still stands at the center of America’s daily listening. Edison Research’s Q3 2025 Share of Ear finds AM/FM commanding the majority of ...

The UK government has launched a 2026 Radio Review that will examine whether FM broadcasting should be phased out in the 2030s.

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 ...

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 ...

With digital television now in an estimated 82 per cent of homes, what about its crystal-clear radio cousin? Unfortunately, digital radio take up is still several steps behind. If you're thinking of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — In 1938, the director of the Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Col. Roger B. Colton, transformed the face and future of Army communications. War ...

Kenya has been using analogue radio, which uses either amplitude modulation (AM) or FM. FM is adopted widely because it gives ...