[Jeffhs]

Admiral, Zenith and a few others made this type of AM-only radio-phono combination in the 1950s. The radio was the standard (for the period) AA5 design, with the phonograph being a 4-speed single-play one (although some more expensive combos had changers). These combos were AM only because in the '50s, FM radio in the US was in its infancy at the time; many if not most areas outside major cities did not have their own local FM stations until the 1960s or later. FM stations of the time were generally low-power mono operations with limited range, so most folks any distance from major cities received little or nothing on the FM dial if their radios had FM in the first place.

I live near Cleveland, which did not get its first FM radio station until the late '40s; that station was operated by a local university, operating in the old 44-MHz FM band. The first station to operate in the current FM broadcast band was a religious broadcaster on 103.3 MHz; the station signed on in 1950. The university station on 44 MHz moved to its present dial position, 90.3 MHz, shortly after the current FM broadcast band was commissioned. The first commercial FM in Cleveland also signed on the same year, and is still on the air in northeastern Ohio to this day. The old FM broadcast band eventually (in the late forties) became TV channel 1; by 1950 this range (44-50 MHz) had been reallocated (a realignment of the RF spectrum by the FCC) and is now the the six-meter amateur band.