How to Listen to Ecuadorian Radio Online

Published 13 September 2026

You can stream Ecuadorian radio live in any browser — radio online Ecuador en vivo, with no download and no account. Open 72FM's Ecuador page, choose a station and press play. Ecuador packs the Andes, the Pacific coast and the Amazon into one small country, and its radio sounds like all three: Quito and Guayaquil hits, música nacional and pasillo, cumbia and chicha from the highlands, and one of the oldest missionary radio stations in the world.

Quito and Guayaquil

Ecuadorian radio has two capitals, and the rivalry between highland Quito and coastal Guayaquil runs through music, football and the way presenters talk.

• Radio La Otra 91.3 — one of the most-voted stations in Quito and in the directory.
• Radio Canela — a national network of popular music, with separate streams for Pichincha and Guayas.
• Radio América 104.5 — music and entertainment from Quito.
• JC La Bruja and Los 40 Ecuador — pop hits.
• Radio Onda Positiva 94.1 and Radio Elite 99.7 — music and news for Guayas.
• Radio Quito 760 AM — one of the capital's historic AM stations.
• Radio Diblu — sport and talk, with football at the centre.

HCJB: La Voz de los Andes

HCJB began broadcasting from Quito on Christmas Day 1931, one of the first missionary radio stations in the world, and for decades its shortwave signal carried programmes in many languages far beyond Ecuador. HCJB La Voz de los Andes 89.3 still broadcasts Christian music and programming in Spanish, and the directory also lists its German-language service.

The sounds that come from here

Pasillo. Ecuador's national song form — slow, melancholy and poetic — found its greatest voice in Julio Jaramillo, and it still comes back on radio around national holidays and in the late hours.

Música nacional, cumbia and chicha. Tecnocumbia, chicha ecuatoriana and cumbia ecuatoriana are the sound of fiestas, buses and markets, especially in the highlands. Stations such as La Tukka and La Main Street from Azuay play them all day.

Sanjuanito. The festive Andean dance music of the indigenous highlands, played at the Inti Raymi festivals in June and throughout the year.

Afro-Ecuadorian music. The bomba del Chota from the Chota valley and the marimba music of Esmeraldas on the Pacific coast are the roots of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, and they have a proud place on regional radio.

Rock and classic pop. Antena Uno 90.5 in Azuay plays classic rock, and stations such as Bésame play the romantic ballads of the 1970s and 1980s.

The regions and Kichwa radio

Beyond the two cities, regional stations serve provinces with very different lives: Radio Sucumbíos in the Amazon, Radio Son de Manta in Manabí on the coast, and RVT Satelital in Los Ríos. In the highlands and the Amazon, community stations broadcast in Kichwa and other indigenous languages alongside Spanish.

Football

Guayaquil's Barcelona SC and Emelec play the Clásico del Astillero, and Quito's clubs have their own rivalries. Football commentary is a large part of the sports stations' day. Whether a particular match streams outside Ecuador is the broadcaster's rights decision.

Listening from abroad

Hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians live in Spain, the United States — especially New York and New Jersey — and Italy. Online radio is how many of them keep the music, the football and the accents of home in the background. Everything in the directory streams internationally in the ordinary way; expat radio covers this habit.

Sound quality

Many Ecuadorian streams are modest — 32 to 64kbps is common — which suits phones and mobile data. La Main Street streams at 192kbps and several Quito and Guayaquil stations at 128kbps. Check each station card for the bitrate; radio audio quality and bitrate explains what the numbers mean.

A route in

1. Radio La Otra or Radio Canela, for the stations the directory votes for most.
2. La Tukka, for cumbia and chicha ecuatoriana.
3. Radio Diblu, for football talk.
4. A pasillo programme late at night.

All of them are on the Ecuador page, free, an hour a day without an account. Next door, Colombian radio online and Peruvian radio online go further.

Listen now: All stations from Ecuador