Detroit Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Updated 6 October 2026

You can listen to Detroit radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Detroit gave the world Motown and techno, and its radio has a famous news-talk voice, public radio from Wayne State and Ann Arbor, and classical and jazz.

News and public radio

• WJR 760 — news and talk, "the Great Voice of the Great Lakes".
• WDET 101.9 — Detroit Public Radio, from Wayne State University.
• Michigan Radio (WUOM 91.7) — NPR from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Michigan radio online covers the state.
• WEMU 89.1 — jazz and news from Ypsilanti.

Music

• WRCJ — classical and jazz.
• WCBN 88.3 — freeform radio from Ann Arbor.
• Classic Funk — funk and R&B.
• Hip Hop 313 — Detroit hip-hop and dance.
• Ferndale Radio — community radio and local music.

The sound of the city

Berry Gordy founded Motown in Detroit in 1959, and in the 1980s Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson created Detroit techno. Motown radio, techno radio and American radio go further.

A little history

Detroit's WWJ began broadcasting in August 1920, among the first stations in the country. In the late 1970s and 80s the Electrifying Mojo's night show — Kraftwerk next to Prince and Parliament — inspired the young producers who went on to invent techno.

Listening from elsewhere

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

A route in

1. WDET, for Detroit public radio.
2. WJR, for news and talk.
3. WRCJ, for classical and jazz.
4. Classic Funk, for the sound.

Across the lake, Chicago radio online is next, and further west Minneapolis radio online has the Twin Cities.