Radio search tools

• Search by directory Use these general directories to find any station in the world

Or try these methods:

• Search by keyword
• Search by country
• Search by format (RealAudio or Media Player)
• Other search tools
• Search for radio archives

The best World Directories:

• Find world public radio stations    Best place for public radio
• Real Radio News Search A helpful list of the top radio news stations that offer webcasts.
• CrHear is one of the largest online audio, radio, TVand video broadcasting directories on the internet. Simply select what format you want -- news, music, etc -- and then the country and you get an up-to-date list. Then click a channel and see or hear the newscast.
• ILG International radio A comprehenisve listing of world radio stations, this site allows you to find any news (or music) station by continent or country. It also has the advantage of dividing its listing into internal (home and domestic) services for each country (the radio people in that country are listening to) and external services (the international broadcasts many public networks provide for a world audience.)
• Live-Radio-Net    Excellent, easy to use search page for stations around the world. Best place to start for radio only
• Virtual Tuner   A fast way to find stations around the world. You can search by country, by news category and an advanced search ;lets you search by city.
• TVRadio World     Easy to use search box.  Simplest tool to use 
• WebRadio alphabetical list
• Radio-Locator
• Radio Locator Advanced Search    By call letters, formats, state and province
  

Other excellent sites:

• Timecast  Radio Stations     More than 700 stations broadcasting live on the Internet (60 of them in RealVideo)
• Web-Radio Stations on the Web   The BRS list of radio stations that broadcast on the web.  An excellent place to start
• On the Air - By Country   or By Format
• RadioTower An easy-to-use guide to find web radio of your choice: music, news, sports,or business with selections from 80 countries and 20 different genres.

Search by keyword

• Speechbot   Find radio news from 22 popular American shows.  Search by keywords 
• AudioBasket.com    You can also search for various keywords and limit your search to the last day, week or month. Click on "Audio finder."
• Snap.com    Fast and efficient
• Snap Power search
• AltaVista Audio finder    Click on the "Audio" button
• Scournet
• MediaBuilder
• NSA's Semantic Forests   Not for the public. but check out the patent the American National Security Agency applied for to search through transcribed speech
• Other audio search engines    See JNet's Search audio page

Finding radio stations by format:

The two main formats for listening to radio on the web are RealPlayer and Microsoft's MediaPlayer. each company lists stations that play their format

• RealPlayer Radio Stations     More than 700 stations broadcasting live on the Internet (60 of them in RealVideo)
• MS's MediaPlayer Stations

And the rest ... 

• Find international radio stations
• BRS's list of Radio Stations           For a comprehensive directory of more than 2,000 radio stations with web pages (but not all of them have live sound)
• Scournet Radio Stations
• Gary Price's Audio lists
• Gary Price's Major radio markets -US, Canada
• RealPlayer Guide to Kids Stations
• Imagine Radio       Original radio stations that exist only on the web
• Broadcast Media List          A central list of online broadcasters
• Electronic Newsstand: All listings          A massive list on what's online
• Radio Directory   Everything for the broadcasting professional
• On the air
• VTuner
• Radio on the Internet .  Plus a Mailing List, by clicking on "update"