Iowa Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 27 September 2026

You can listen to Iowa radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Iowa streams a statewide public radio network, jazz from Cedar Rapids, community radio from Des Moines and farm radio with a century of history.

Public radio

• Iowa Public Radio — news and the Studio One music stream.
• Siouxland Public Radio (KWIT) — NPR from Sioux City.
• KCCK Jazz 88.3 — jazz from Cedar Rapids.

Community and local

• KFMG-LP 98.9 — non-commercial community radio from Des Moines.
• KMA 960 — KMAland talk and farm radio from Shenandoah.
• KXIC 800 — news and talk from Iowa City.
• DM Pulse — commercial-free indie and alternative.

Music

• KIYX Super Hits 106.1 — classic hits near Dubuque, the most-voted Iowa station in the directory.
• 100.7 KKRQ The Fox — classic rock.
• KWMT True Country 540 — classic country and ag news.

The sound of the state

Before politics, Ronald Reagan was a sports announcer on Iowa radio, at WOC in Davenport and WHO in Des Moines, in the 1930s. KMA in Shenandoah has served farm families since the 1920s. Minneapolis radio, jazz radio and country radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

Iowa keeps Central time — six hours behind UTC in winter and five in summer.

A route in

1. Iowa Public Radio, for news.
2. KCCK, for jazz.
3. KFMG, for community radio.

To the north, Minneapolis radio online is next.