Interference and fidelity have been the bane of AM radio broadcasters and listeners since the medium was developed in the early 1900s. In fact, what drove Edwin Armstrong to invent FM radio was that ...

“Just as the FCC is trying to keep pace with changes in the market, so are AM radio operators,” says Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai. “The Commission wants to give them as much ...

WASHINGTON — For a number of years, residents of northern Montgomery County and Frederick County, and drivers passing through the area, may have switched their AM radio dials to listen to The Gamut, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The NAB on Monday filed Reply Comments with the FCC in support of a rulemaking that would allow AM radio stations to voluntarily broadcast an all-digital signal. The comments are in ...

AM radio station operators in the United States may soon have the option of switching their transmissions to all-digital. It’s not a done deal; but the concept is about to take a step closer to ...

The author is chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. Her commentaries appear regularly in Radio World. After 11 months the FCC is to decide if, at the behest of the National Association of Broadcasters, ...