The humble AM radio has been a permanent fixture in cars for decades, so why are carmakers now trying to remove them from ...

A lament about the demise of AM radio has been rising in the halls of Congress. Several automakers, most notably Tesla and Ford, have decided to stop putting AM radios in their electric vehicles. They ...

It wasn't so long ago that car radios were rudimentary pieces of hardware that pumped muddy sound through a single tinny speaker in the middle of the dashboard. But over the last generation several ...

If you look at the tuning dials of most medium-wave (commonly known as AM) radios sold in the United States from 1953 through ...

Many WTOP listeners have at one point listened to Washington’s all-news station on an AM car radio — Congress is debating a bill that would require automakers to ...

We were all disappointed, no doubt, when we learned that the movie Oppenheimer didn't emphasize the role of the government-issue 1942 Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan that carried the plutonium core to ...

The author is chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. This often-rehearsed question resurfaces periodically, as radio is facing an uphill struggle against the digital giants ready to grab the dashboard.

SEATTLE — Some Mazda owners are experiencing a mysterious glitch with their car radios making it impossible to switch off the Seattle NPR station KUOW. Customers are increasingly reporting online that ...

Remember when Cadillac made a car with two radios, dual automatic heaters, a pipe rack, and a quartet of jewelry boxes and charged 14,000 dollars for it? Chances are almost no one will because the ...

In the 1950s, transistor technology allowed smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard. H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock via Getty Images A lament about the demise of AM radio has been rising in ...