About IV Radio

A free, HTTPS-only globe of 157 hand-curated internet radio stations across 55 countries — plus 4 long-form podcasts. No signup, no ads, no tracking pixels.

What it is

IV Radio is iVUniverse's curated answer to the internet-radio question. Spin the globe, tap a pin, hear a real broadcaster — public-radio newsrooms in Toronto and Helsinki, classical music from Sydney and Limerick, electronic from San Francisco and Paris, Latin classic rock from Mexico City. Every station is hand-verified, every stream HTTPS-only, every broadcast either a public-broadcast service or an established commercial chain.

What makes IV Radio iVUniverse-grade

• Hand-curated, broadcaster-verified. Every station on the globe is picked by the iVUniverse Radio team and tested live in-browser before going on air — public broadcasters (BBC, NPR, NHK, ABC, CBC, RTÉ, Yle, SABC, Radio France…) and established commercial chains only. HTTPS-only. No tribute streams. No dead links.
• Mood + genre dual filter.Pick by feeling — focus, sleep, deep night, workout, ceremony, festive — or by sound — classical, jazz, indie, hip-hop, world & folk, news & talk. 13 moods × 10 genres, mix and match.
• Plays everywhere on iVUniverse. A persistent player rides with you from the dashboard to events to letters to properties — your station never stops when you change pages.
• Podcasts share the globe. Long-form shows surface as same-surface pins; IV Radio auto-resolves the latest episode and streams it through the same proxy as live radio.
• Popularity-sized pins. Stations the iVUniverse community plays more show up bigger on the globe — community taste, visible at a glance.
• Built for 24/7 listening.Watchdog + smart reconnect + automatic failover to a same-genre, same-mood station when an upstream broadcaster has a hiccup. Your audio doesn't stop just because one studio went quiet.
• Free, open, and ad-free. No signup needed to listen. No paywall. No ads. No tracking pixels. Signed-in iVGU+ members get favourites, listen history, achievement chips, and custom playlists on top.
• Part of a bigger sanctuary. IV Radio is one of many curated cultural surfaces on iVUniverse — alongside Events, Properties, Community, Letters, Showcase, and Circles — all built by Infinite Variable in Pune, India for a global audience.

Stations + Podcasts at a glance

The catalogue spans 55 countries and 10 genres. A few highlights you can stream right now:

• Groove Salad — SomaFM, San Francisco, United States. Ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.
• Drone Zone — SomaFM, San Francisco, United States. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats — for falling asleep to.
• KEXP — KEXP 90.3 FM, Seattle, United States. Where the music matters.
• WFMU — WFMU 91.1 FM, Jersey City, United States. Freeform radio.
• Radio Paradise — Radio Paradise, Paradise, CA, United States. Eclectic listener-supported radio.
• FIP — Radio France, Paris, France. Genre-fluid public radio.
• France Inter — Radio France, Paris, France. Flagship public talk-and-music.
• France Musique — Radio France, Paris, France. Classical, jazz, and world from Paris.
• NTS — 100% Hip-Hop — NTS Radio, London, United Kingdom. NTS Infinite Mixtape — hip-hop, 24/7.
• NTS — 4 to the Floor — NTS Radio, London, United Kingdom. Dancefloor electronic.
• NHK World Radio Japan — NHK, Tokyo, Japan. Japan's international public radio in English.
• Triple J — ABC Australia, Sydney, Australia. ABC's national youth music network.
• Radio Mirchi — Radio Mirchi, Mumbai, India. India's biggest Hindi music station.
• Metro FM — SABC, Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africa's urban contemporary station.
• Vividh Bharati — All India Radio, Delhi, India. India's public service entertainment radio since 1957.
• Aaj Tak News Radio — India Today Group, New Delhi, India. 24/7 Hindi news radio.

Coverage by country

Argentina (2) · Australia (5) · Austria (2) · Bangladesh (1) · Belgium (3) · Brazil (3) · Canada (5) · Chile (1) · Colombia (1) · Costa Rica (2) · Czech Republic (4) · Denmark (2) · Finland (2) · France (4) · Germany (5) · Ghana (4) · Greece (1) · Hong Kong (2) · Hungary (5) · India (4) · Indonesia (1) · Ireland (3) · Israel (2) · Italy (3) · Japan (3) · Kenya (2) · Malaysia (1) · Mexico (4) · Morocco (1) · Netherlands (3) · New Zealand (2) · Nigeria (2) · Norway (2) · Peru (3) · Philippines (2) · Poland (6) · Portugal (2) · Romania (2) · Russia (2) · Singapore (2) · South Africa (7) · South Korea (4) · Spain (4) · Sri Lanka (1) · Sweden (2) · Switzerland (1) · Taiwan (1) · Tanzania (2) · Thailand (1) · Turkey (1) · Ukraine (1) · United Kingdom (10) · United States (10) · Uruguay (2) · Vietnam (4)

Suggest a station

Got a public-broadcast station or commercial broadcaster you love that's not on the globe yet? Send it through /radio-globe/submit — anyone can submit (Cloudflare Turnstile protects the form), and the iVUniverse radio team reviews every submission for stream health, broadcast legality, and HTTPS-only delivery before adding to the catalogue.

Who's behind this

iVUniverse is built by Infinite Variable Pvt Ltd (CIN U74140PN2020PTC192821) — a technology company founded in Pune, India in 2020. IV Radio is one of several products on the iVUniverse platform alongside The Hub (physical venues), Events, Properties, and Letters. Read more at the iVUniverse homepage.

Last updated 2026-05-27 · 157 stations · 55 countries · 4 podcasts.