can you have radio on ipod without having an fm transmitter cause whats the radio for your itunes for?

Answer 1

The FM transmitters are so that you can listen to your iPod playing on any FM-receiving stereo system, like a boombox or a car stereo. If you want to listen to radio stations on your iPod, you need an FM _receiver_, not a transmitter. I know of two such beasts. One is made by Apple, and looks vaguely like the new Shuffle, but all in white and with a cord coming out of it. The other is made by Griffin, and is black, vaguely iPod-shaped, and has a small display screen on it. The Apple version actually uses the iPod screen to display information regarding the radio station that you're listening to, while the Griffin version will only display the radio station frequency on the remote itself. Of course, since both of them have headphone jacks in the remote unit, and both are intended to function as a control interface for the iPod itself (you can actually use them to navigate the iPod menus when they are not set to pick up radio stations), the tiny bit of info that the Griffin version displays on the remote is actually more handy than the more complex info that the Apple version requires you to pull out the iPod to view. Regardless of which version you buy, they both run off the iPod's internal battery, and neither of them get particularly spectacular reception.

Answer 2

you have to have the radio transmitter to subscribe and put those stations on your ipod after you have the transmitter