Not talking about tune in radio that streams stations but ability to use your phone to scan stations like it's a regular radio. Hear ads on radio about contacting gov or something to allow phones to unlock that feature. If you stream a radio station it usually blocks out major sports . If you could just tune from from you could listen plus not kill data 
You mean use your phone as an actual FM receiver?? Never heard of that.
are you insane?
pfsjkd - You mean use your phone as an actual FM receiver?? Never heard of that.Yes, that it's already built in but not legal to use
Sony Walkman phone has built in fm/am 
Right Hand JO Power - Sony Walkman phone has built in fm/amSick. Is it yellow?
The Hidden FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, And Why You Can't Use It
You may not know it but most of today's smartphones have FM radios inside of them. But the FM chip is not activated on two-thirds of devices. That's because mobile makers have the FM capability switched off.
The National Association of Broadcasters has been asking mobile makers to change this. But the mobile industry, which profits from selling data to smartphone users, says that with the consumer's move toward mobile streaming apps, the demand for radio simply isn't there.
Full disclosure: NPR, along with the NAB, has been part of a lobbying effort to require this free radio feature to be enabled. In 2013 they teamed up to create a free app that allows for free FM listening on smartphones.....
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/16/400178385/the-hidden-fm-radio-inside-your-pocket-and-why-you-cant-use-it
I'm not sure, I have one, but I'm blind
Girly - The Hidden FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, And Why You Can't Use ItInteresting
You may not know it but most of today's smartphones have FM radios inside of them. But the FM chip is not activated on two-thirds of devices. That's because mobile makers have the FM capability switched off.
The National Association of Broadcasters has been asking mobile makers to change this. But the mobile industry, which profits from selling data to smartphone users, says that with the consumer's move toward mobile streaming apps, the demand for radio simply isn't there.
Full disclosure: NPR, along with the NAB, has been part of a lobbying effort to require this free radio feature to be enabled. In 2013 they teamed up to create a free app that allows for free FM listening on smartphones.....
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/16/400178385/the-hidden-fm-radio-inside-your-pocket-and-why-you-cant-use-it
http://freeradioonmyphone.org/
Cell phones have FM receivers built in but most carriers have it deactivated because "people prefer streaming music (and paying for all that data)".
NextRadio is an Android app that turns the receiver back on.
Radio bloated and died.
Much like newspapers arrogantly never changed and assumed the net was a fad, radio stations arrogantly never changed either.
Why do you need to wait for Morning Zoo to tell you who won Dancing With The Stars, last night's game or to give you weather?
You can get all that info while taking your shit and not have to wait until "10 after the hour. Every hour. Entertainment, sports and weather".
Why do you need to hear the same few songs in a tight rotation with some played every hour?
Why do you need a puke voice to say "that was, this is and coming up later is a new one from..."?
You can see who performs every song on your phone, don't need to sit through 3 stop sets of commercials per hour to get back to the music either.
Radio failed to adapt, failed to change and got left behind.
In 2000, a market 25 afternoon DJ could earn 60-100 K a year for a 4 hour shift depending on market rating.
Today?
Only morning jocks get real money and it's not the six figures it used to be all over.
One market wonders used to pull over six figures easily in the AM but now syndicated shows killed that and the net and phones finally buried it.
Worthless venture that's far too late in the game.
Radio was good.
So too were magazines and newspapers.
The fat pigs get slaughtered.
Which is what happened and now they want back in by lobbying.
Cant recall the last time i purposely turned on the radio anywhere. Listening to some jackoff over exaggerate every spoken word while crazy party noises play in thw background has always annoyed the piss out of me. No to mention ads. Radio for me no longer exists to me
Well like I said not everybody has unlimited data. Plus I could be listening to sox game now
JeffersonDArcyChoke - Radio bloated and died.Boom. VUFT.
Much like newspapers arrogantly never changed and assumed the net was a fad, radio stations arrogantly never changed either.
Why do you need to wait for Morning Zoo to tell you who won Dancing With The Stars, last night's game or to give you weather?
You can get all that info while taking your shit and not have to wait until "10 after the hour. Every hour. Entertainment, sports and weather".
Why do you need to hear the same few songs in a tight rotation with some played every hour?
Why do you need a puke voice to say "that was, this is and coming up later is a new one from..."?
You can see who performs every song on your phone, don't need to sit through 3 stop sets of commercials per hour to get back to the music either.
Radio failed to adapt, failed to change and got left behind.
In 2000, a market 25 afternoon DJ could earn 60-100 K a year for a 4 hour shift depending on market rating.
Today?
Only morning jocks get real money and it's not the six figures it used to be all over.
One market wonders used to pull over six figures easily in the AM but now syndicated shows killed that and the net and phones finally buried it.
Worthless venture that's far too late in the game.
Radio was good.
So too were magazines and newspapers.
The fat pigs get slaughtered.
Which is what happened and now they want back in by lobbying.
I remember a few years ago there was a popular morning DJ show whose contract came up for renewal. They had been in San Diego for 15 or 20 years jumping from station to station and getting more popular with each move. Radio was just starting on it's slow decline and the station wanted to reduce the number of people on the show and I think cut salaries for those who remained.
Well the two main stars thought they could play hardball since they were the #1 morning show and they refused to sign the new contract thinking that the station would eventually cave rather than let them go off the air completely, and even if they did another station would jump at the chance to get them in their AM drive time slot.
The station called their bluff and dumped them. So they went shopping around for another. The thing is even after they got dumped I don't think they realized that they weren't worth as much as they thought they were. They didn't get back on the air for over two years and it was on a much lower rated station. I'm pretty sure they took a huge pay cut.
I remember HD radio coming out and thinking, 'Who gives a shit?? Why would I wanna listen to 15 mins of commercials every hour in HD?'
iheartradio
NHBDaddy - iheartradioThat doesn't pull without data
I think radio still have a lot going for it, especially as a method for communicating with the public during an emergency. The amount of infrastructure required to both broadcast and receive is a tiny fraction of that required for a complete cellular transaction.
Also, while the majority of stations are fucking shit, there are still a few gems on the dial that I appreciate.