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 ...

Electronics manufacturers and wireless phone companies have been resisting any government mandate to include FM receiver chips in cellular telephones. There are, however, some phones available which ...

Did you know that your smartphone is also an FM radio? That’s right; today’s smartphones have a built-in FM chip that gives them the ability to receive radio signals in your area. This means you ...

The IT Ministry's advice was ambiguous over whether it wanted manufacturers to put radio receivers in smartphones or just in feature phones. (Photo Credits: Reuters) The Ministry of Electronics and ...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has brought a previously hidden iPhone feature to light. Almost all smartphones have an FM receiver chip built into their hardware. It's actually the ...

If you're trying to rock out to the radio on your smartphone, you're undoubtedly using an Internet stream—something like Beats 1, instead of spinning a digital dial to your favorite frequency and ...

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 ...

FM radio — is that still a thing? We’re mostly kidding, but many of us don’t have (or miss having) FM radio functionality on our smartphones these days, not when we have services like Spotify, Pandora ...

a) that Report ITU-R BT.2299 provides a compilation of supporting evidence that terrestrial broadcasting plays a critically important role in disseminating information to the public in times of ...

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 ...

Pioneer takes in-dash smartphone app integration to Ford Sync levels with AppRadio, a receiver that uses the iPhone and its apps as the primary source of for its audio and connectivity. Antuan started ...