How to Listen to Uruguayan Radio Online

Published 23 September 2026

You can stream Uruguayan radio live in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM's Uruguay page, choose a station and press play. Uruguay is small, but its radio is old and serious — the dial began in 1922, the public broadcaster in 1929 — and it still revolves around talk, football, carnival and music you will not hear anywhere else.

A century of radio

Radio in Uruguay began in 1922 with experimental broadcasts in Montevideo, and regular commercial stations followed the same year. El Espectador, now on 810 AM, is counted among the country's first stations and is still one of its main news stations. The national broadcaster, SODRE, was founded in 1929, and its first station went on air in 1930.

Public radio

Today's public broadcaster, Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay, runs several stations, all in the directory:

• Radio Uruguay 1050 — the national speech station: news, interviews and culture.
• Clásica 650 — classical music, on the frequency SODRE started with in 1930.
• Emisora del Sur — music, with an emphasis on Uruguayan and traditional music.
• Babel — instrumental music and jazz.

Talk and news

Uruguayans listen to a lot of talk radio, much of it on AM. El Espectador 810, Sarandí 690, Radio Oriental 770 and Radiomundo — home of the morning programme En Perspectiva — carry news, interviews and political argument, and 970 Universal leans on football.

Music stations

• Del Sol FM — the most-voted Uruguayan station in the directory, with pop and hits.
• FM Inolvidable 93.1 — classic hits.
• Azul FM 101.9 — alternative and indie rock.
• FM Hit 90.3 — pop, rock and oldies.
• Radio Pipí Cucú — a community station from Montevideo playing popular music from Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil.

The sounds that come from here

Candombe. The drum music of Afro-Uruguayan Montevideo, played by groups of drummers in the streets, is the country's most distinctive sound. It fills the city in the weeks of Carnaval, when dozens of candombe groups parade.

Murga. Uruguay's Carnaval is a season of open-air theatre as much as a party, and the murgas — choirs that sing satirical songs about the year's events — are its heart. The radio carries the Carnaval, and a lot of the talk about it.

Tango. Uruguay shares tango with Argentina, and one of the most famous tangos of all, La Cumparsita, was written in Montevideo. The Argentine radio guide goes further.

Uruguayan rock and song. From the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s to today's rock bands, Uruguayan music has a strong audience at home; Emisora del Sur and Azul FM play it.

Football

Uruguay has won two World Cups and more Copa Américas than almost any other country, and football talk fills the AM dial. Match commentary is a radio tradition; whether a particular match streams abroad is the broadcaster's rights decision.

Listening from abroad

Uruguay keeps UTC−3 all year, with no summer time — the same as Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Many Uruguayans live in Argentina, Spain and the United States, and expat radio covers the habit of listening to home.

A route in

1. Radio Uruguay 1050 or El Espectador 810, for the national conversation.
2. Del Sol FM, for Uruguayan radio as most people hear it.
3. Emisora del Sur, for Uruguayan music.
4. Clásica 650, for classical music on the station that started it all.

All of them are on the Uruguay page, free, an hour a day without an account. Across the river, Argentine radio online is the natural next step, and Paraguayan radio online is close by.

Listen now: All stations from Uruguay