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.

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 ...

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 ...

The 2026 FMR/Eastlan National Radio Listening Survey finds AM/FM radio reaching 84% of adults 25-64 weekly, with podcast growth stabilizing.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edison Research's Q4 2025 Share of Ear finds AM/FM radio holds 83% of in-car ad-supported audio, nearly unchanged since 2017.

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 ...