How to Listen to Malaysian Radio Online

Published 12 September 2026

You can stream Malaysian radio live in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM's Malaysia page, choose a station and press play. Malaysian radio works in four worlds at once — Malay, Chinese, Tamil and English — with public stations for every state and commercial stations fighting for Kuala Lumpur's commute.

RTM: the public stations

Radio Televisyen Malaysia runs a national network that is still one of the best ways to hear the whole country.

• Nasional FM — the national Malay-language station, with news, talk and music.
• Klasik FM — classic Malay songs, the evergreen hits of P. Ramlee's era and the decades after it.
• Ai FM — RTM's Chinese-language station.
• Asyik FM — programming for the Orang Asli, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia.
• State stations such as Kelantan FM, Terengganu FM and Sabah FM — local news, local music and local accents.
• Wai FM Iban — Sarawak's station in Iban, with news, talk and pop for Borneo's largest indigenous community.

Commercial radio: the Kuala Lumpur dial

• ERA FM — Malay hits, and one of the country's biggest commercial stations.
• Sinar FM — Malay classics and evergreens for an older audience.
• Gegar — the east coast station, presented in the Kelantanese dialect; the directory lists it as THR Gegar.
• 988 FM — a Chinese-language station for Kuala Lumpur, with talk, news and Mandopop.
• Melody and goXuan — more of the Chinese-language side of the dial.

Tamil radio

Malaysia's Tamil community has a lively radio culture of its own. Jei FM Klang Tamil Radio from Selangor — streaming Kollywood and Tamil music at 320kbps — is one of the most-voted Malaysian stations in the directory. For radio from Tamil Nadu itself, the Indian radio guide goes further.

The sounds that come from here

Slow rock and rock kapak. Malaysian rock of the 1980s and 1990s — big ballads, long hair, soaring guitar solos — never left. Slow Rock 90' is one of the most-voted Malaysian streams, and stations such as Kelantan FM, Dunia Muzik FM and LTFM Radio keep the era on air.

Malay pop and ballads. From evergreen irama Malaysia to today's pop, the Malay ballad is the core of the music stations — KCFM Radio and Asyik FM play a lot of it.

Islamic radio. Nasheed FM plays nasyid, Islamic vocal music, and Quran recitation stations stream around the clock — listened to especially in the early morning and during Ramadan.

Jazz. One of the most-voted stations in the whole directory, Jazz Lounge, is listed in Malaysia: smooth and classic jazz at 320kbps. The jazz radio guide has more like it.

Finding stations by language

Because Malaysian radio divides by language, the quickest way in is to decide which Malaysia you want to hear. On the Malaysia page, names give a lot away: RTM's stations pair FM with a state or a theme, some Chinese-language stations go by numbers such as 988, and Tamil stations such as Jei FM say so in the name. If a station's language is not obvious, press play for thirty seconds — the presenter will tell you.

Many Malaysians move between languages within a single sentence, and presenters on the commercial stations do it too, mixing Malay and English in what Malaysians call bahasa rojak. For learners of Malay, the news on Nasional FM is the clearest place to start; for learners of Mandarin, the Chinese-language talk shows offer everyday, unscripted speech.

Listening from abroad

Malaysians abroad — in Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom and the Gulf — listen online for the news, the language and the music of home, and many Singaporeans tune across the causeway too. Everything in the directory streams internationally in the ordinary way; if a particular broadcast is restricted, that is the broadcaster's decision. Expat radio covers this habit.

Sound quality

Malaysian streams range from 48kbps for talk to 320kbps for Jazz Lounge and Jei FM, with the RTM stations at 96kbps and many commercial streams at 64kbps. Check each station card for the bitrate; radio audio quality and bitrate explains what the numbers mean.

A route in

1. Nasional FM or ERA FM, for Malay radio as most of the country hears it.
2. 988 FM or Ai FM, for the Chinese-language side.
3. Jei FM, for Tamil Malaysia.
4. Klasik FM or Slow Rock 90' in the evening, for the songs everyone's parents know.

All of them are on the Malaysia page, free, an hour a day without an account. Across the Strait of Malacca, Indonesian radio online shares the language and much of the music, and Thai radio online is just to the north.

Listen now: All stations from Malaysia