Bulgarian Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Updated 6 October 2026

You can listen to Bulgarian radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Bulgarian radio has the public broadcaster BNR, a strong classic-hits and rock scene in Sofia, and chalga, the country's pop-folk. Sofia radio online covers the capital.

Bulgarian National Radio (BNR)

• BNR Horizont — news and talk.
• BNR Hristo Botev — culture and classical music.
• BNR Varna — the regional station on the Black Sea coast.

Sofia and national stations

• Radio 1 — classic hits, the most-voted Bulgarian station in the directory, with Radio 1 Rock.
• BG Radio — only Bulgarian music.
• Energy NRJ Bulgaria — pop and dance, with a 90s Only channel.
• Fresh!, City and Avtoradio — hits.
• Nova — dance and electronic; Nova News — news.
• Tangra Mega Rock — hard rock and metal.
• Vanilla — chill-out.

Chalga and regional radio

• Ultra (Sandanski and Blagoevgrad) — chalga.
• Maya (Varna) — hits at 320kbps.
• Katra FM (Plovdiv) — contemporary hits.
• BG Estrada — Bulgarian pop.

About chalga

Chalga — Bulgarian pop-folk, with Balkan and Middle Eastern rhythms — is the country's most popular and most argued-about music, and several stations play little else. World music radio and Greek radio go further.

A little history

Bulgarian National Radio dates from 1935, when broadcasting became a state service. Its two main channels are Horizont and Hristo Botev — the latter named after the 19th-century poet and revolutionary.

Listening from abroad

Bulgarian stations keep Eastern European Time — two hours ahead of UTC in winter and three in summer.

A route in

1. BNR Horizont, for the news.
2. Radio 1, for classic hits.
3. BG Radio, for Bulgarian music only.
4. Ultra, for chalga.

Across the Balkans, Serbian, Romanian and Macedonian radio online are next.

Listen now: All stations from Bulgaria