How to Listen to Puerto Rican Radio Online

Published 12 September 2026

You can stream Puerto Rican radio live in any browser — radio de Puerto Rico en vivo, with no download and no account. Open 72FM's Puerto Rico page, choose a station and press play. Puerto Rico is a small island with an outsized radio history: some of the oldest stations in Latin America, the birthplace of reggaeton, a salsa tradition that shaped the music, and news radio that becomes a lifeline every hurricane season.

AM news and talk

Puerto Ricans argue about politics on the radio, and the AM news stations are where the island's arguments happen.

• WKAQ 580 — one of the oldest radio stations in Latin America, on air since the 1920s, with news and talk from San Juan.
• WUNO 630 Noti Uno — news, weather and talk, and the most-voted Puerto Rican station in the directory.
• WAPA Radio — news and talk from the WAPA group.
• WPAB 550 in Ponce and WALO 1240 Radio Oriental in Humacao — news and talk for the south and the east of the island.

When Hurricane María took the power grid down in 2017, battery radios were how much of the island heard what was happening. That memory is part of why AM news still matters here.

Community radio

Radio Casa Pueblo comes from Casa Pueblo, the community and environmental project in the mountain town of Adjuntas, known for its solar energy work. Its programming mixes community news, environment and conversation — a very different sound from the San Juan stations, and one of the most-voted Puerto Rican streams in the directory.

Music stations

• Hot 102 — current hits in Spanish and English, for San Juan.
• Zeta 93 — tropical music: salsa, merengue and bachata.
• Fidelity 95.7 and Spot Radio — gentler, adult-contemporary listening.
• AZ Rock — rock, classic and new.
• Cumbre 1470 and Radio Pozo de la Salsa — salsa and tropical music.
• Catolica Radio, 104.1 FM Redentor and Pura Gracia — Catholic and Christian stations.

The sounds that come from here

Salsa. Puerto Rican musicians, on the island and in New York, were at the heart of salsa — from Héctor Lavoe and Ismael Rivera to El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, still playing after more than sixty years. The salsa radio guide tells the story.

Reggaeton. Reggaeton grew up in Puerto Rico in the 1990s, out of dancehall, hip-hop and Latin rhythm, and Puerto Rican artists — Daddy Yankee, then Bad Bunny — carried it to the top of the world's charts. The island's hits stations still play it more than anything else.

Bomba and plena. The Afro-Puerto Rican traditions of bomba, with its dialogue between dancer and drum, and plena, the "sung newspaper" of the working-class barrios, are the island's roots music, and they come back strongly at festivals and on cultural programmes.

Música jíbara and Christmas. The cuatro, Puerto Rico's ten-string guitar, leads the country music of the mountains. At Christmas it leads the parrandas, the house-to-house serenades, and the aguinaldos on the radio — in a Christmas season that runs until the Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián in January. For more festive radio, see Christmas and holiday radio.

Spanish, English and the diaspora

Puerto Rico is a US territory, but its radio is overwhelmingly Spanish, with English mixed in on the hits stations. More Puerto Ricans live on the US mainland — in New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and beyond — than on the island itself, and island radio is one of the ways families on both sides stay connected. Everything in the directory streams in the ordinary way; if a particular broadcast is restricted, that is the broadcaster's decision. Expat radio covers this habit, and US radio online covers the Spanish-language stations on the mainland.

Sound quality

Most Puerto Rican music stations stream at 128kbps, while some AM news stations use 48 to 64kbps — fine for speech on a phone. Check each station card for the bitrate; radio audio quality and bitrate explains what the numbers mean.

A route in

1. WKAQ 580 or Noti Uno in the morning, for the island's news and arguments.
2. Radio Casa Pueblo, for a different Puerto Rico.
3. Zeta 93 or Cumbre 1470, for salsa and tropical music.
4. Hot 102 at night, for what the island is dancing to now.

All of them are on the Puerto Rico page, free, an hour a day without an account. For the islands around it, Caribbean radio online goes further.

Listen now: All stations from Puerto Rico