As was to be expected, on the last day that comments are being accepted, filings rolled in on many of the potential proposals for revitalizing the AM radio band. Advocacy groups, broadcast stations ...
It’s classic radio jargon, referring to the six most crowded frequencies in the AM radio band: 1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450 ...
With the media sounding the alarm bell that AM radio is increasingly being dropped by auto manufacturers, a bipartisan group of members of Congress has introduced legislation that would mandate auto ...
Lawmakers and broadcast station operators continue to mount pressure on manufacturers of electric vehicles who are deliberately leaving out AM radio tuners in their new, all-electric cars. On Monday, ...
Just as television supplanted AM radio for drama, comedy and variety shows in the 1950s and FM radio became the medium of choice for music by the 1980s, streaming internet and podcasts have been ...
Although FM boasts better sound quality, AM remained the dominant of the two until the 1960s and ’70s, when carmakers began to install FM radios in new models. Transmitted in the medium frequency band ...
Car makers have been phasing out AM radios in their cars for quite some time. Let’s face it, there isn’t much on AM these days, and electric vehicles have been known to cause interference with AM ...
Longtime readers of this column know I’m a bit crazy when it comes to AM radio. Unlike many – seemingly, most – owners managers or programmers, I believe that an AM station can compete if it pays the ...
Amplitude modulation (AM) is by far the oldest form of modulation known. The first broadcast stations were AM, but even earlier, CW or continuous-wave signals with Morse code were a form of AM.