For this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, Mark Karnes tells the story behind the Cobra company's petition to the Federal Communications Commission some years back to allow the use of FM rather than ...

At a time when trust in media remains a moving target, radio continues to earn the confidence of its audience, but new findings come with quite the twist. While the content remains the exact same, ...

Howard Stern might be leaving terrestrial radio at the wrong time. With the release of the first real digital AM/FM radio receiver, satellite radio may have some real competition to worry about. HD is ...

Broadcast FM of course always seems to have a much richer and fuller sound. AM sounds like it's in a can or talking on a phone like it's a restricted audio spectrum. Is this somehow fundementally ...

We’ve had that ability from the start with HD Radio, but for the Eureka-147 system, it was one or the other—because the frequencies were so far apart in the broadcast spectrum. STMicroelectronics now ...

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 ...

Starting on Wednesday—at precisely 11:11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11—Norway began shutting down its FM radio network and replacing it with digital radio, a process that will be complete by the end of the year.

Norway’s Minister of Culture announced this week that the country will be switching out its national FM radio stations in favor of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) in 2017. This marks the first ...