Amsterdam Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Updated 6 October 2026

You can listen to Amsterdam radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Dutch national radio mostly broadcasts from Hilversum, just outside Amsterdam, so the capital's listeners share the country's public and commercial stations — alongside a strong dance-music scene of the city's own.

National stations

• NPO Radio 1 — news and current affairs.
• NPO Radio 2 — pop and classics.
• NPO 3FM — new music.
• NPO Klassiek — classical music.
• Radio 538 — hits, with 538 Non-Stop and other channels.
• Qmusic — pop and top 40.
• SLAM! — dance.
• Arrow — rock.

Amsterdam and Noord-Holland

• NH Radio — the regional public broadcaster for Noord-Holland.
• Amsterdam Funk Channel — funk, soul and R&B.
• Deep Radio — deep house, downtempo and nu-jazz, at 320kbps.
• Dance Radio Amsterdam and Freak31 — house and dance.
• Soundtrack Radio Station — film scores.

The sound of the city

Amsterdam is one of the capitals of dance music, and every October the Amsterdam Dance Event fills the city with DJs and producers. House music radio and electronic radio go further.

A little history

Hilversum has been the Netherlands' radio town since the 1920s. In the 1960s the pirate station Radio Veronica broadcast pop from a ship off the Dutch coast, and Radio 538 was founded in 1992 by the DJ Lex Harding.

Listening from elsewhere

Amsterdam keeps Central European Time — one hour ahead of UTC in winter and two in summer — so its morning shows go out overnight in the Americas.

A route in

1. NPO Radio 1, for the news.
2. NPO Radio 2, for Dutch pop and classics.
3. Deep Radio, for deep house.
4. Amsterdam Funk Channel, for funk and soul.

For the rest of the country, Dutch radio online goes further, and across the border Belgian radio online covers Flanders and Brussels.