North Carolina Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 27 September 2026

You can listen to North Carolina radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. North Carolina streams public and college radio from the Triangle, jazz, country and Christian radio from Charlotte.

Public and college

• WUNC 91.5 — NPR from Chapel Hill.
• WXYC 89.3 — the University of North Carolina's student station.
• WNCU 90.7 — jazz from North Carolina Central University in Durham.

Music

• 95.7 That Station — adult alternative and indie, the most-voted North Carolina station in the directory.
• 99.9 Kiss Country — country.
• Foxy 99 — hip-hop and R&B.
• SpriteLayer — video game music.

Christian

• Bible Broadcasting Network — Christian radio from Charlotte, in English, Spanish and other languages.
• Classical Catholic Radio — liturgical and choral music.

The sound of the state

In 1994 WXYC in Chapel Hill became one of the first radio stations to stream its broadcasts live on the internet. The state gave the world John Coltrane and Nina Simone, and its mountains are bluegrass country. American radio, bluegrass radio and jazz radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

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

A route in

1. WUNC, for public radio.
2. WXYC, for college radio.
3. WNCU, for jazz.

Up the coast, Washington DC radio online is next.