Boston Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 24 September 2026

You can listen to Boston radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Boston's dial is rich in public, classical, college and folk radio, alongside the big hit stations.

Public radio

• WBUR 90.9 — NPR news and talk.
• GBH 89.7 — public radio, with the classical station WCRB 99.5 and its Bach Channel at 192kbps.

College radio

• WHRB 95.3 — Harvard Radio Broadcasting.
• WMBR 88.1 — MIT's station.

Folk, blues, jazz and more

• WUMB — folk from UMass Boston, with streams for Blues, Celtic Journey and French Accent.
• WICN 90.5 — jazz for New England.
• 92.5 The River — alternative.
• Kiss 108 — hits.
• La Mega 1310/106.1 — tropical and Latin music from Worcester.
• Bloomberg Radio Boston — business news.

The sound of the city

Boston has a long folk and rock tradition and some of the country's most active college radio. Folk radio and classical radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

Boston keeps Eastern time — five hours behind UTC in winter and four in summer.

A route in

1. WBUR, for public radio.
2. WCRB, for classical music.
3. WUMB, for folk.
4. WMBR, for MIT's student radio.

For the rest of the Northeast, New York radio online is close by.