UKRadioLive - UK's Internet Radio Stations In One Place

Our internet radio site was created for listing together the most popular UK radio stations, providing easy access to the best free radio broadcasts in one place without any subscription. On UKRadioLive you can find the United Kingdom's most popular online radio stations, the most important general information about the stations, their contact options, frequencies, related news, and if available, the programme schedules and playlists. You can also listen again to programmes of certain radios in their archives. There is no external software required to listen to radio online; you just need a freshly updated web browser. To begin you just need to click on the name or logo of the radio station in the radio-list, and the broadcast will start automatically. This way you can easily listen to Heart Radio, Capital FM, Classic FM, LBC, KISS, Smooth Radio, talkSPORT, talkRADIO, Virgin Radio UK and many more stations, bringing you the best live radio experience from the UK.

The radio broadcasts are available on desktop computers, as well as on smart mobile devices too. So you can enjoy your favourite online radio stations on any Android or iOS device. To enjoy free internet radio, the only required software you need is your favourite web browser. Since the browsers change by the time, we test them continuously for the perfectly enjoyable radio-listening experience. Therefore you can choose the default Android browser, Opera Classic, mobile or desktop Chrome, or Firefox for radio-listening. In line with the challenges of the times, we've also created our native Android and iOS applications, so you can listen to live radio and your favourite stations anywhere, not just in your browser. You can find them in the footer in the Contact menu.

Listening to radio live over the internet has numerous advantages compared to the conventional FM broadcasting. The broadcasts' quality is interference free, excellent, and continuous, while the FM radios highly depend from the area, terrain, weather and many other faulty factors. Depending on internet access, the online radios are available all over the world, without the difficulty of searching FM frequencies, with just one click you can tune in to your favourite free internet radio stream. Moreover, on the UKRadioLive website and in our apps, you can rewind the broadcast if you missed a sentence or your favourite song. Later, you can search for previously played songs and check which programmes will be broadcast later in the day. We also have radio archives, where you can listen to certain radio programmes again. At the same time, the online radio broadcasts have not always their advantages, but sometimes disadvantages. For example the broadcast can lag if the online listener number is very high, this can cause the overload of the radio server. To prevent it, the most popular online radios, like Heart FM, Capital FM, talkSPORT, LBC Radio, TalkRadio and Smooth have alternative broadcaster servers, by using them, we can avoid the lag. The other disadvantage affects only those smart-mobile users whose data traffic is limited and have to pay according to their data usage. For them, the use of online radios may be expensive. Usually the broadcasts transmit between 32 kbit/sec and 128 kbit/sec to the user's device. This depends on, and define the quality of the broadcast. So, about 1 MB/minute data traffic can be generated on your smart device by listening to internet radio. Thus, the best option in this case is to connect to a free WiFi-network and enjoy your chosen radio without data restriction. Luckily, several mobile service providers offer unlimited data for reasonable price, in this way, you can enjoy listening to your favourite radio stations on your phone to the fullest.

If the radios won't start, you have more options to find out wether the fault is in your device, or at the radio. Since it often happens that the issue is with the radio streams, or with the system of the listener's device, we've developed a troubleshooting page for the radios. By a few simple steps, you can find out what could cause the issue. Of course there are many issues which can be identified only individually, those types of issues can't be solved with that. If you see that the troubleshooting shows everything fine, but the radio still doesn't start, please send us a message on the Contact menu. Please tell us precisely, which radio station doesn't work, with what browser, and what type of device you have tried to start it! We will try to answer your message as soon as possible on your given e-mail address!

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