# A map of the world's radio stations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676 "2021-12-08T03:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/1 "2021-12-08T03:29:04Z")
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. > **[Radio Garden](http://radio.garden)** > > Explore live radio by rotating the globe. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/2 "2021-12-08T03:30:34Z")
Whoops. I just got an announcer shouting out the name of the station, in English. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/3 "2021-12-08T03:38:42Z")
I love that site. So much fun to listen to what the rest of the world is listening to. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/4 "2021-12-08T03:44:42Z")
Thanks to that map, I have just discovered that some folks have resurrected the campus radio station on which I DJed, 35 years ago. > **[The Big 64 - WLHA Tribute Site](http://lakeshore64.com/)** > > Latest News WLHA at the WBA Broadcast Clinic WLHA Studios – Part 10 WLHA Studios – Part 9 WLHA Studios – Part 8 Like Us On Facebook Connect with WLHA WLHA Audio WLHA Videos WLHA Photos ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/5 "2021-12-08T04:08:03Z")
Very cool! Thanks for posting! That looks like an expensive site to run. Who’s paying for this? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/6 "2021-12-08T04:33:01Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/7 "2021-12-08T04:42:49Z")
I wondered if it was the same world radio I linked to in 2016, it was. > [@Live radio from all over the world in a globe.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-radio-from-all-over-the-world-in-a-globe/774594): > > This is better than getting a hold of a transoceanic shortwave radio I had in my youth. You can navigate the globe and click on the green spots to listen to the streaming radio coming from that place. Usually there will be several stations on the right of the screen, select one to listen or change stations in that city, some have numbered pages to cycle at the bottom of the list. One can even link to specific radios one finds, like Radio Transylvania: After looking around for a few minute… In internet years, that is ancient. And notorious that Radio Garden is still on! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/8 "2021-12-08T05:03:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/9 "2021-12-08T09:53:01Z")
Or there’s [TuneIn](https://tunein.com/), 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](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds), for fans of classical). ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/10 "2021-12-09T15:53:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I mainly listen to NME 1 and NME 2 out of London. Thanks for the recommendation! I listened to NME 1 yesterday & the playlist is indeed impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/11 "2021-12-09T22:24:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-map-of-the-worlds-radio-stations/955676/12 "2021-12-09T22:37:00Z")
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.