IBiquity Digital supports many of the commission’s proposals to help AM in theory, but says the agency should ensure any changes to the AM technical rules do not negatively impact the HD Radio rollout ...

Crawford Broadcasting is set to experiment with all-digital AM Radio on WYDE in Birmingham, AL. Starting September 1, WYDE will switch to the MA3 mode, limiting AM band reception to only listeners ...

“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 ...

In a time when every song is available at our fingertips, podcasts cover nearly every subject imaginable and most of our communication is via cellphones, it may seem as though AM broadcasting — the ...

NOON. WE’LL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT 4:00. ANNOUNCER: THIS IS A WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 EDITORIAL. SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, WCVB PRESIDENT AND GM KYLE GRIMES. FOR NEWS, FOR A BALLGAME, FOR CLASSICAL ...

Last week, I wrote a little about streaming audio and how, with the use of smart speakers, smartphones, and plain old computer streaming, the possibility of internet radio essentially replacing ...

More than two dozen AM broadcasters have filed a petition asking the FCC to reopen and expand AM Revitalization translator modification rules.

Here’s a question: when did you last listen to an AM radio station? If your answer is “recently”, chances are you are in the minority. You might ask: why should you listen to AM? And you’d have a ...

I grew up in a small town with no regular local nighttime radio service; early on I became close friends with 50 kW clears in distant cities. So I wanted to find out if nighttime IBOC transmission ...

Here’s a question: when did you last listen to an AM radio station? If your answer is “recently”, chances are you are in the minority. You might ask: why should you listen to AM? And you’d have a ...

Last month we looked at contributions to the art made by amateur operators, in particular advancements in Amplitude Modulation, or AM, and how it came to give radio its voice. This month, we will look ...

The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio broadcasters should pay royalties to singers, musicians and their labels. But now the debate ...