Philadelphia Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 24 September 2026

You can listen to Philadelphia radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Philadelphia's public radio makes two of America's best-known programmes, and the city's soul music has its own station — with Pittsburgh's public and jazz radio across the state.

Philadelphia

• WHYY 90.9 — NPR news; Fresh Air is produced here.
• WXPN 88.5 — the University of Pennsylvania's music station, home of World Cafe, with an XPoNential HD2 channel.
• WKDU 91.7 — Drexel University's student station.
• Philly Gold Radio — oldies and the Philly sound, at 320kbps.
• Q102 — hits.
• PhillyCAM (WPPM) — community radio.

Pittsburgh, across the state

• WESA 90.5 — Pittsburgh's NPR news station.
• WYEP 91.3 — independent music.
• WQED-FM 89.3 — classical, with a Concert Channel.
• WZUM — the Pittsburgh jazz channel.

The sound of the city

Philadelphia soul — the lush, string-laden sound of Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International Records in the 1970s — is one of the city's great exports. Pennsylvania has radio history too: KDKA in Pittsburgh began regular commercial broadcasting on 2 November 1920. Soul radio and American radio go further.

Listening from elsewhere

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

A route in

1. WXPN, for music.
2. WHYY, for news.
3. Philly Gold Radio, for the Philly sound.
4. WESA, for Pittsburgh.

Up the coast, New York radio online is next.