Listen to live and recorded radio and television broadcasts on your computer from around the world
Many radio and television stations around the world are now providing live or recorded broadcasts online. Stations which broadcast from (or in the languages of) Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia are listed here in alphabetical order by language.
Note that in some cases, especially where a station offers a variety of broadcasts, home pages for the stations are included in this list rather than direct links to the broadcast. Refer to these for programming schedules, easy selection of recorded broadcasts, and other information.
Instructions: to receive live air, please, click on the links above. You must have appropriate plug-ins: RealNetworks RealPlayer and Microsoft WindowsMedia. If you don't know Russian simply enjoy the music of foreign language!
Radio: Echo of Moscow: One of the first free mass media in Russia after collapse of USSR. It is the part of Media-Most holding - private russian corporation with Mr.Gusinsky as as the main holder. Very professional and creative team. "Echo of Moscow" spreads democratic values of free speech and open critics towards Government and other State organs. You can hear their live air in full size (in russian)
Live Russian TV Stations Online
Check out TV4all.com for a useful listing of various Russian TV broadcasts that are streamed over the internet. Content ranges from news to classic film; some require high-speed internet, others do not.
Russian television NTV can now be viewed by anyone on the UW-Madison campus network. It is available on the Digital Academic Television Network as an MPEG-1 stream that can be played on most computers using Quicktime. The stream may be too much for slow computers, but is available to those on the UW-Housing Resnet network and to those in Eagle Heights Apartments. Note that this will not work off-campus and may not work through a firewall.
For more details or to watch the stream of NTV, go to: http://datn.wisc.edu/
new Voice of Russia video broadband: Hour-long updated video segments from this Russian media outlet.
TV Channel: NTV (Independent Television): Also is the part of Media-Most holding. The most prefessional and interesting channel in Russia and perhaps in all Eastern Europe. You can hear and see their live air in full size. (in Russian)
TV Channel TVC: (TV Center): Moscow TV channel that is controlled by Moscow authorities with mayor Mr.Luzhkov as the main figure, but now becomes loyal to federal authorities and provide standard info. You can hear and see it's 30 minutes News block. (in russian)
ORT- Uses the Windows Media Player.
RTR- Uses the Windows Media Player.
Culture- Uses the Windows Media Player.
TV6- Uses the Windows Media Player.
Would you like to use newscasts and television shows from the target culture in your classes? Would you like to be able to watch high-quality TV over the internet to keep up your language skills and your knowledge of the target culture up-to-date? LSS can show you how! It's free and easy! For details on this exciting new development, see our latest blog entry at http://babel.lss.wisc.edu/lss/blog/?p=45 (or from our main website at http://lss.wisc.edu)
Radio Portals
Radio Free Europe
Ituner Europe
Radio Links by Country - We are currently overhauling our links pages. Many broken links have been removed. Thanks for your patience.
Albanian
Voice of Russia (VOR) | home page
see schedule for Albanian broadcasts
Radio Europa E Lire homepage
Bosnian
Domovina Net Radio and Video Broadcast
RTV Broadcast homepage Video and Radio broadcasts in Serbo-Croatian
Bulgarian
International Radio |
Voice of Russia (VOR) | home page
see schedule for Bulgarian broadcasts
Croatian
Radio 101 | home page
RTV Broadcasts video and radio broadcasts in Serbo-Croatian
Czech
Radio Prague | daily news & broadcast
KISS Hady 88.3 FM | KISS Radio Group
Stefanikova, Czech Republic
Live Top 40 programming from the Czech Republic
Voice of America (VOA) | home page | 3:30 news
Voice of Russia (VOR) | home page
see schedule for Czech broadcasts
Hungarian
DUNO Television | video
Radio Budapest | home page | daily news
Voice of America (VOA) | home page | 4:30 pm news
Polish
International Radio Polskie radio
Polskie radio in the US | home page
Radio Jowisz
Jelenia Gora, POLAND
Radio programming in Polish, including games
Russian
new Kultura radio broadcast | Russian page
Deutsch Welle | Russian page | Radio v "Internete"
106.8 FM
Moscow, Russia
Live from Moscow, 106.8 FM plays a variety of new age music 24 hours a day.
Radio Sweden | Russian page
Voice of America (VOA) | home page | 3:00 news | 8:00 news | 18:00 news
Voice of Canada (VOC) | home page
Voice of Russia (VOR) | home page | daily news
Ukrainian
Voice of Canada (VOA) | home page | daily news
