Radio is how Accra argues with itself. The morning shows set the day’s conversation, the phone-ins decide who is in trouble by lunchtime, and a football result is on every trotro and in every shop within minutes. Television and the internet have not dented it the way they have elsewhere, because radio is free, it works in traffic, and it speaks Twi.
You can listen to most of the big Accra stations live on this site, in your browser, with nothing to install.
How many stations there are
More than you would guess. The National Communications Authority’s register, as at Q2 2026, authorises 89 FM stations in Greater Accra, of which 78 are on air:
| Kind of station | Authorised in Greater Accra |
|---|---|
| Commercial | 65 |
| Community | 18 |
| Public (the state broadcaster) | 2 |
| Campus | 2 |
| Foreign public broadcasters | 2 |
That is a crowded dial for one city, and it is why so many Accra stations sit close together between 87.5 and 108.
The stations you will hear
These are the stations you can play live on this site, with the frequency the NCA has them on:
| Station | FM | Language | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy FM | 99.7 | English | News and talk, and the station many people mean by Ghanaian radio |
| Citi FM | 97.3 | English | News, current affairs and talk |
| Peace FM | 104.3 | Akan | Talk and politics in Twi, among the most listened-to stations in the country |
| Adom FM | 106.3 | Akan | Talk, news and music in Twi |
| Asempa FM | 94.7 | Akan | News, talk and sport in Twi |
| Hitz FM | 103.9 | English | Urban music and sport |
| YFM | 107.9 | English | Music for a young audience |
| Okay FM | 101.7 | Akan | Talk and sport in Twi |
| Oman FM | 107.1 | Akan | Talk and politics in Twi |
| Happy FM | 98.9 | Akan | Sport and talk |
| Neat FM | 100.9 | Akan | Music and entertainment |
| Uniiq FM | 95.7 | English | The state broadcaster's Accra station |
| Rainbow Radio | 87.5 | Talk and music | |
| Sompa FM | 106.5 | Talk and music | |
| Ahotor FM | 92.3 | Talk and music | |
| Oroko Radio | online only | English | Independent online radio from Accra: music, culture and conversation, with no FM signal at all |
And these are on air in Accra but have no stream on this site, because none could be verified: 3FM (92.7), Asaase Radio (99.5), Class FM (91.3), Radio Gold (90.5), Atinka FM (104.7), Onua FM (95.1), Radio Univers (105.7), Kasapa FM (102.5), Accra FM (100.5), Hot FM (93.9), Top FM (103.1), Obonu FM (96.5), BBC World Service (101.3), Radio France Internationale (89.5).
English and Twi
Accra’s big stations split roughly in two.
English-language stations - Joy, Citi, Uniiq and the music stations - tend to be where the city’s professional class gets its news, and where government and business go to be interviewed.
Akan-language stations, broadcasting mostly in Twi - Peace, Adom, Asempa, Okay, Oman, Happy - have the bigger audiences. Peace FM in particular is consistently ranked among the most listened-to stations in the country, and its political talk shows are where a great many Ghanaians actually hear an argument made. If you only listen in English, you are hearing the smaller half of the conversation.
Ga, the language of Accra’s original people, has its own station in Obonu FM, the state broadcaster’s Ga-Dangme service.
Who owns what
A few groups own most of what you hear:
- Multimedia Group - Joy FM, Adom FM, Asempa FM and Hitz FM
- Despite Media - Peace FM, Okay FM, Oman FM and Neat FM
- Global Media Alliance - YFM and Happy FM
- Media General - 3FM and Onua FM
- Omni Media - Citi FM
- The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the state broadcaster - Uniiq FM and Obonu FM, among others
Knowing the owner explains a lot: sister stations share newsrooms, simulcast big stories, and promote each other’s shows.
The shows that set the agenda
The morning shows are the centre of Ghanaian radio. They run for hours from early morning, mixing the day’s papers, interviews with ministers and officials, and listeners calling in, and what gets said on them is routinely the news by afternoon.
Phone-ins are everywhere, in every language, on everything from politics to marriage to a dispute with a landlord. They are also how many people complain about a utility or a public service - loudly, and in public.
Sport, and especially football, takes over the airwaves on match days.
Church is on the radio too: sermons, gospel music and paid religious programming fill a great deal of airtime, especially on Sundays.
International stations
Two foreign public broadcasters hold Accra licences: the BBC World Service and Radio France Internationale, both in the list above. RFI is also a painless way to keep up French, which most of Ghana’s neighbours speak.
Campus and community radio
Radio Univers is the University of Ghana’s campus station, first licensed in 1995 among the earliest stations after the airwaves were opened to anyone but the state.
Community stations are licensed for a single area and run by local organisations. They are where you will hear a neighbourhood’s own news, and languages the big commercial stations rarely use.
How to listen
- On a radio or a phone. Plenty of cheaper Android phones still have an FM receiver; it uses the headphones as an aerial, costs no data, and keeps working when the mobile network does not.
- In a trotro or a taxi. Whether you want to or not.
- Online, on this site. Press a station and it plays. Nothing loads until you do, and stopping it stops the data.
- On the station’s own website or app. Most of the big ones stream there too, and some add video of the studio.
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If you have a complaint
The NCA licenses the frequencies and deals with interference and unlicensed broadcasting. Complaints about what was actually said on air - fairness, accuracy, abuse - go to the National Media Commission, and to the station first.
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