North Rhine-Westphalia Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 27 September 2026

You can listen to North Rhine-Westphalia radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Germany's most populous state is served by WDR, the public broadcaster based in Cologne, whose stations run from the youth network 1LIVE to classical WDR 3 and multilingual COSMO — plus private local radio across the Rhine and Ruhr.

WDR

• WDR 2 — pop, news and regional windows such as WDR 2 Rheinland and Rhein und Ruhr; the Rheinland stream is the most-voted station from the state in the directory.
• 1LIVE — WDR's youth station, with 1LIVE DIGGI and genre streams.
• WDR 3 — classical music and culture.
• WDR 4 — oldies and German hits.
• WDR 5 — news, talk and culture.
• WDR COSMO — music from around the world, with programmes in many languages.

Private and local

• Radio Köln — local radio from Cologne, with a carnival channel.
• Antenne NRW — pop across the state.
• Radio Siegen 88.2 — local radio from Siegen.

Internet

• Technotune — techno and house.
• ElectroZombies — darkwave, EBM and gothic.
• Classic Videogames Radio — video game music.

The sound of the state

Cologne's WDR opened one of the first studios for electronic music in 1951, where Karlheinz Stockhausen worked, and nearby Düsseldorf gave the world Kraftwerk. Cologne's carnival has its own radio season every winter. German radio, techno radio and Frankfurt radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

North Rhine-Westphalia keeps German time — one hour ahead of UTC in winter and two in summer.

A route in

1. WDR 2, for news and pop.
2. WDR 3, for classical.
3. WDR COSMO, for world music.

Up the Rhine, Frankfurt radio online is next.