Canberra Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 2 October 2026

You can listen to Canberra radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Canberra streams ABC local and national radio, commercial hits and talkback, and community stations from jazz and the arts to college and multicultural radio.

ABC

• ABC Radio Canberra — local news and talk on 666 AM.
• ABC NewsRadio — the ABC's 24-hour national news network.
• Double J — the ABC's digital music station and sister to Triple J.

Commercial

• Hit104.7 Canberra — pop and adult contemporary hits.
• Mix 106.3 — adult contemporary.
• 2CA 1053 AM — classic hits and oldies.
• 2CC 1206 AM — news and talkback, billed as Talking Canberra.

Community and internet

• 2XX 98.3 FM — community radio with alternative programmes, which bills itself as Canberra's oldest community station.
• ArtSound FM — jazz, classical, blues, folk and world music on 92.7 FM.
• UCFM 87.8 — college radio with indie, alternative and local music.
• CMS FM — multicultural radio on 91.1 FM.
• NIGE! — classic, hard and progressive rock and heavy metal.

The sound of the city

Canberra is home to the National Film and Sound Archive, which preserves Australia's radio and recorded-sound heritage, and the electronic duo Peking Duk and the rapper Genesis Owusu both started out in the city. Australian radio, Sydney radio and Melbourne radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

Canberra keeps Australian Eastern time — ten hours ahead of UTC (AEST) from April to October and eleven (AEDT) during daylight saving from October to April.

A route in

1. ABC Radio Canberra, for local news.
2. ABC NewsRadio, for national news.
3. ArtSound FM, for jazz.

Up the road, Sydney radio online is next.