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FM broadcasting

Edwin Howard Armstrong

FM broadcasting is a noise-resilient analog transmission method that trades bandwidth for fidelity and static immunity. Armstrong engineered it deliberately—not as an evolution of AM, but as its functional alternative. Its mechanism works. Its early promise did not. Its regulatory impact did.