Articles about FM

Part five of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

BBC Technical Information maps of VHF and MW transmitters

Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK

A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments

A new idea in Independent Local Radio – broadcasting different things on AM to what’s on FM

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

What can really be said about the decision to abandon the 2015 date for digital radio switchover, other than, it’s rather sensible?

If we’re keeping DAB, we need to upgrade it to use modern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the “radio space” to IP networks? However, you can’t do that until there is a national broadband infrastructure that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keeping FM is the thing to do…