Houston Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Updated 24 October 2026

You can listen to Houston radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Houston's dial has a university-run public broadcaster with news, classical and music streams, a university jazz station, talk and sport, and radio for its large South Asian community.

Houston Public Media

• Houston Public Media News 88.7 — NPR news, run by the University of Houston.
• Houston Public Media Classical — classical music.
• Houston Public Media Mixtape — alternative and indie.

More from Houston

• KTSU 90.9 "The Choice" — jazz from Texas Southern University.
• News Talk 740 KTRH — news and talk.
• ESPN Houston 97.5 — sport.
• Sangeet Radio — Hindi music.

The sound of the city

Some of the city's big commercial stations stream mainly through their owners' own apps and are not in the open directory, so the list below leans towards public, college and independent radio. Houston also gave hip-hop "chopped and screwed", the slowed-down style pioneered by DJ Screw in the 1990s. Hip-hop radio and American radio go further.

A little history

KPFT, the city's Pacifica station, went on air in 1970, and its transmitter was bombed twice by the Ku Klux Klan in its first year. It is still broadcasting, listener-supported.

Listening from elsewhere

Houston keeps Central time — six hours behind UTC in winter and five in summer. Beyond the city, Texas radio online covers the rest of the state.

A route in

1. Houston Public Media News 88.7, for news.
2. KTSU, for jazz.
3. Houston Public Media Classical, for classical music.

Up the interstate, Dallas radio online and Austin radio online are next.