When you search the RadioTime Guide, you are searching thousands of radio shows and stations worldwide. you can search RadioTime Guide many ways to find the radio you want.

FYI – when there’s no play or listen button available on a station or program page, it means they don’t make their audio available over the internet. In this case, try searching for the program on another station or contact the radio station to request they make content available over the internet.

You might start your radio experience by browsing the guide. You can browse by genres and geographic location.

The RadioTime guide lists hundreds of shows and stations. Browse by genre or click a genre on the right side of the home page to find new content.

Browse Genres has three top level categories.

• Music - All music and non-spoken word shows and stations.

• Spoken - All spoken word “talk” shows.

• Sports - Sports programming sorted by sport and teams.

Select the top level category of your choice and keep selecting until you get to your desired genre. Beware that selecting a large category often yields hundreds of shows and stations.

On the results page for your selected genre, you can see how many shows and programs are available for that category. For example, “Classic Rock” has 250 shows and 180 radio stations.

If you’d rather now browse 430 stations and programs, narrow the list by selecting items from the options that appear on the left of the results. You can filter by type, genre, location, and signal strength. Select “More ways to refine,” if you’d like to go deeper.

You can browse stations in the RadioTime guide by geographical location. The guide doesn’t categorize programs by location. The guide helps you find stations in major regions around the globe. Regions include the following:

• Countries.

• States in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, and other countries.

• Cities around the globe with a population of more than 500,000.

• About 200 Arbitron markets in the U.S.

• Every zip code in the U.S.

To browse by location, do the following:

1. Select the “Browse Stations by location” link from the RadioGuide homepage.
2. Select a continent.
3. Select a country to view a list of all stations available for that country.
4. Click a state, city or other sub-area.

Use the single form search for broad or general radio searches. You can find the search form on the home page and in the upper right corner of every other page.

Unless you filter them, search results include programs and stations.

Enter a radio station’s call letters or channel, program name, host’s name, network name, URL, city, zip or postal code, sports team, or words describing the topic you wish to find. Use quotes to find an exact match for phrases such as “Car Talk.” Searching for car talk without quotes produces results that have car and talk in any order.

• Listen: The radio program is live. Click to listen.

• OnDemand: Represents an archived radio show available for listening. Click to play.

• See schedule: Takes you to schedule, alternative stations, and information.

• Install player: Takes you to instructions for installing the required player.

• Add to Presets: Click to add a favorite as a preset. If you are not logged in as a member, the guide will ask you to join or sign in to save the clicked favorite.

• In Presets: Shows that the program or station appears in your Presets tab.

• More show info or More station info: Access to the show or station details page.

• See daily topics: Takes you to details page for a radio show or podcast that includes daily descriptions about the show’s content.

• See station’s lineup: Takes to you to details page for a radio station that includes a listing of daily programs with more information.

• Genre links: Each result contains three links that best describe the content of the radio program. Select a link to see similar results for the selected genre.

• Next and Previous: Click to see the next or last 20 results.

Too many results? Try refining the results.

Refine to radio stations or shows using the main filter. Listenable now means the programming is live and available on your computer.

Note: Filtering only works on the first 500 search results. For example, searching a broad keyword like “rock” only gets 500 total stations and shows. Filtering to “Mexico” probably won’t include all rock stations in Mexico, just within the first 500 search results. Use advanced search instead.

Click more filter options to use more categories:

• Genres: You can drill down to genres and sub genres that are included in the result.

• Locations: Select from continent, country, markets.

• Languages: A list of all languages included.

• Stream Speed: Description of speed, which affects sound quality. Options range from 32kb to 160kb rates based on results.

• Media Types: Options include HTML, MP3, Real, and Windows You can filter out media types which allow you to hide radio sources you wish to keep out of the results. For example you may want to only see MP3 stream types that work with your media adapter. To customize the default options shown, use the media types option in My Account.

• AM/FM/HD/Satellite: Filter for terrestrial broadcast options.

• RadioGuide Star Ratings: This allows you to limit results based on ratings gathered by RadioTime.

Click X next to the criteria you no longer want to use as a filter to expand your list again. In the example, clicking the X next to California will expand results to view all On Right Now covering politics.

Advanced search helps when you need something specific or receive too many results in the default Quick search. You don’t have to fill in all the fields – just the ones that matter to you.

1. Click Advanced Search on the navigation bar.
2. Enter your search options.
   • Name: Complete all or a portion of the Program title. Entering Rome would include Jim Rome, The Best of Jim Rome, and Julie Rome.
   • Host: Type the Program’s host or DJ.
   • Desc: Include any text or keywords from the Program description.
   • Sports team: Enter a specific sports team name, like “Cowboys” or “Dallas Cowboys”.
   • Genre: Select genre from list.
   • Network: Select radio network from list.
   • City: Type the city in which the show is produced, this information is not always reliable.
   • State: Enter the state in which the show is produced. The program state may not be reliable, shows may not be from the market where you hear them.
   • Country: Select a country to limit the search results from your selected location.
   • Language: Select a language to limit results to your selected language.
   • Genre: Select a show genre from the list. Use the browse by genre page for a hierarchical view of available genres.
   • Network: Select a network from the drop-down list.
3. Click “Advanced Search”.