Testing FM receivers is not that much different than testing other pieces of audio equipment. Appropriate tests include the big six: level, frequency response, THD+N, phase, interchannel crosstalk, ...

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has advocated for the activation of FM radio receivers built into nearly every smartphone, as part of opening remarks he made at the Future of Radio and Audio Symposium in ...

Put FM radio in cellphones and everyone will benefit. That’s the gist of a report commissioned by an NAB technology advocacy program. “Cell phone service providers, radio broadcasters and handset ...

In early August, the NAB published its ideas on proposed terms for the ongoing debate about performance royalties for terrestrial radio stations. The organization has been fighting the performance ...

Austin, Tex. — Silicon Laboratories Inc. has claimed the industry's first fully-integrated AM/FM radio receivers with weather band (WB) coverage. In addition to receiving AM/FM bands, the Si4736 ...

The TEF7006 and TEF7007 FM car radio receivers are suitable for background scanning and data services. These parts are able to decode data from Radio Data Systems (RDS), Radio Broadcast Data System ...

The future of terrestrial radio continues to look grimmer and grimmer as podcasting continues to dominate the "airwaves." In fact, most of us have already declared the medium dead. But is it really?

Some models of Blackberry smartphones already have FM radio receivers built in – but they haven’t been activated. Until now. Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) announced at the Consumer ...

Although GRC (the GNU Radio Companion) uses the word radio, it is really a graphical tool for building DSP applications. In the last post, I showed you how you could experiment with it just by using a ...

[Ben Krasnow’s] latest project will be good for anyone who wants a complicated way to cheat on a test. He’s managed to squeeze a tiny FM radio receiver into a ballpoint pen. He also built his own bone ...