131 Retro Radio live
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131 Retro Radio live
National - Online
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About 131 Retro Radio live
Technical details, frequency and station information
Anyone after a varied schedule will find a familiar name in 131 Retro Radio, which broadcasts to a UK-wide audience.
Streaming has taken the station well beyond its original patch, and the feed runs without interruption around the clock.
To listen to 131 Retro Radio live, press play on the player at the top of this page. It is free, needs no sign-up and works on a phone, tablet or computer.
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LocationNational
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Frequently asked questions about 131 Retro Radio live
131 Retro Radio has no place on the dial. It is one of the many British stations that launched as a stream rather than applying to Ofcom for a frequency, which is why specialist formats like this one exist at all — the audience for them is spread too thin for local FM. It plays here with nothing to install.
Not much, and deliberately. The appeal of the format is recognition — a listener should be able to sing along to most of what comes on — so new releases would work against it.
National. 131 Retro Radio is not tied to one transmitter area, which is what allows a station to build a format around a genre rather than a place.
Not especially — around 30 to 60 MB an hour. On a capped tariff a full working day of 131 Retro Radio would be noticeable, so wi-fi is worth using where you can.
Usually the connection rather than the station: streaming needs a steady flow and any dip interrupts it. Reloading the page fixes most cases; switching network or closing other tabs handles the rest.