A map of the world's radio stations

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A friend turned me on to this website. It’s a map of the entire world, with green dots for radio stations, all over the world. You can click on each dot and listen to that radio station. Right now I’m listening to some cool club music from KEXXX FM in Kiev.

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Whoops. I just got an announcer shouting out the name of the station, in English.

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I love that site. So much fun to listen to what the rest of the world is listening to.

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Thanks to that map, I have just discovered that some folks have resurrected the campus radio station on which I DJed, 35 years ago.

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Very cool! Thanks for posting!

That looks like an expensive site to run. Who’s paying for this?

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Interesting! At first I was wondering why many of the stations that I know (in the NYC area) weren’t showing up on the map in spots where I know their locations are, but they’re all there, 200+ of them, under 1 big dot and in the pull-down menu.

Re. “who’s paying for this”, a few of the stations start playing only after a message like “our online broadcast is supported by…”

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I wondered if it was the same world radio I linked to in 2016, it was.

In internet years, that is ancient. And notorious that Radio Garden is still on!

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There’s also an app for your mobile and tablet devices. I’ve had Radio Garden installed since sometime last year, and it’s my go-to for in-car listening when I’m sick of listening to the ten-song playlists local radio stations seem to have. I mainly listen to NME 1 and NME 2 out of London.

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Or there’s TuneIn, and no doubt others.

I have an internet radio, though the interface for navigating to anything other than my regular station is a bit clunky. And it was easy enough to find the online streams for some mainline foreign equivalents of my favourite (BBC Radio 3, for fans of classical).

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Thanks for the recommendation! I listened to NME 1 yesterday & the playlist is indeed impressive.

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Thanks, that’s a fun site.

From brief exposure, I have an idea that the classic rock format sucks all around the world. I wasn’t expecting to tune in to a station in Hamburg only to hear a Geico ad - in English.

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BBC 6 Music for the win. But I used to work there so I’m biased - but any station that will play Mr Bungle on a weekday daytime has to worth listening to.