How to Listen to Venezuelan Radio Online

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Title card for the guide: Venezuelan Radio Online, in amber on black with an equaliser motif

You can stream Venezuelan radio live in any browser — radio en Venezuela online, with no download and no account. Open 72FM's Venezuela page, choose a station and press play. Venezuelan radio carries news from Caracas, salsa and romantic ballads, the harp and cuatro of the plains, gaita at Christmas and baseball through the winter — and for the millions of Venezuelans now living abroad, it is one of the strongest threads back home.

News and talk

  • Unión Radio 90.3 — news and talk from Caracas, and the most-voted Venezuelan station in the directory.
  • Radio Rumbos 670 AM — a long-running AM station with news and talk, listed several times in the directory.
  • Alba Ciudad — a public station with talk and cultural programming.

Music stations

  • La Romántica and Radio Romántica — ballads in Spanish and English, the love songs Venezuelans sing along to.
  • Adulto Joven 88.1 — music for an adult audience.
  • Rumba 98.1 and Rumbera 98.7 — Latin pop, merengue, salsa and reggaeton.
  • FM Mundial 104.1 — music and entertainment from Carabobo.
  • Radio Sol 89.1 — hits for Maturín in the east.
  • RocaFM Clásicos Caracas — golden oldies from the 1950s to the 1990s, streamed at 320kbps.

The sounds that come from here

Música llanera. The music of the llanos, the great plains, played on the harp, the four-string cuatro and maracas, is Venezuela's national sound — the joropo is the national dance. Stations such as Llaneros por Venezuela and Lo Mejor de Mi Llano play nothing else.

Salsa. Caracas is one of the great salsa cities, and Oscar D'León one of its great voices. Online streams play both salsa romántica and salsa brava.

Gaita and Christmas. The gaita zuliana from Maracaibo is the sound of a Venezuelan Christmas, starting weeks before December. Navidad Venezuela streams Christmas music, gaitas included; for festive radio from other countries, see Christmas and holiday radio.

Vallenato. Colombian vallenato has a big Venezuelan audience too — Fiesta Vallenata and Clásicos del Vallenato stream it all day.

Christian radio. Radio Cristiana Venezuela plays gospel and Christian programming.

Baseball season

Football is popular, but baseball is Venezuela's great passion. The winter league — with rivals such as Leones del Caracas and Navegantes del Magallanes — runs from autumn into the new year, and radio commentary is how many fans follow it. Whether a particular game streams outside the country is the broadcaster's rights decision.

Listening from abroad

In the last decade millions of Venezuelans have left the country, for Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Spain, the United States and beyond. For many of them, radio from home — the news from Caracas, the station a parent always had on, a gaita in December — is a daily connection with the country they left. Everything in the directory streams internationally in the ordinary way; expat radio is about exactly this.

Sound quality

Many Venezuelan streams in the directory do not report a bitrate, and those that do range from 48kbps to 128kbps, with RocaFM Clásicos Caracas at 320kbps. If a station sounds thin, try another stream of the same station — several are listed more than once. Radio audio quality and bitrate explains what the numbers mean.

A route in

  1. Unión Radio or Radio Rumbos in the morning, for the news.
  2. La Romántica, for the ballads.
  3. Llaneros por Venezuela, for music from the plains.
  4. RocaFM Clásicos or a salsa stream at night.

All of them are on the Venezuela page, free, an hour a day without an account. Next door, Colombian radio online shares the vallenato and much more.

Listen now: All stations from Venezuela

Frequently asked questions

How can I listen to Venezuelan radio online for free?

Open 72FM's Venezuela page in any browser, choose a station and press play — no download and no account needed, with an hour a day free. The directory includes news stations, romantic and tropical music stations and música llanera.

What is the most popular Venezuelan radio station?

Unión Radio 90.3 in Caracas is the most-voted Venezuelan station in the public directory.

Where can I listen to música llanera online?

Llaneros por Venezuela and Lo Mejor de Mi Llano stream the harp, cuatro and maracas music of the Venezuelan plains all day.

Is there Venezuelan Christmas music on the radio?

Yes. Gaita zuliana is the sound of a Venezuelan Christmas, and Navidad Venezuela streams Christmas music including gaitas.

Can I listen to Venezuelan radio from abroad?

Yes. The stations in the directory stream internationally in the ordinary way, which is how many Venezuelans living abroad stay connected with home.