87.5 MHz · THE SIGN-ON

This is Dad. Transmitter’s warm.

The world never signs off.

I run the night shift on a radio the size of Earth: 50,000+ stations in 230+ countries and territories, live right now. Spin the globe and hear what the world sounds like when it thinks nobody’s listening.

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64.1° N · 21.9° W

Reykjavík is awake.

The globe is a dial, not a map. Give it a spin and put your thumb down wherever it slows.

6.5° N · 3.4° E

Lagos is drive-time.

Slow down over a coastline. Hear what the fishing boats are hearing. Every dot is a real transmitter at its real coordinates.

35.68° N · 139.69° E

Tokyo is on breakfast radio.

No search on the globe. That’s a decision, not an oversight: a dial you can search is just a menu. If you already know what you want, Search is one tab over.

It’s late where you are. It’s breakfast in Osaka. Somewhere in the Azores, a tower is playing fado to the fog. Nobody asked it to. It does anyway. That’s radio. The dark is full of signals. Pull up a chair.

The night is long, and the dial is longer

96.1The Interpreter

The phone writes down what the radio says.

Tune to Tokyo and the captions start rolling, in the language the host is actually speaking. Live Captions in 30+ languages, translation into about 20. It all happens on the device: I don’t send a word of it anywhere.

« Et maintenant, les nouvelles du matin depuis Paris. »

“And now, the morning news from Paris.”

96.1 · Premium, with a free preview · needs iOS 26

100.1The Keeper

The song you almost lost.

Every listener has muttered the same thing at a dashboard: what was that song? One tap and I name it, pin it to the country you caught it in, and line the words up with the singer.

SONG IDENTIFIED What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong OPENS IN APPLE MUSIC · SPOTIFY

Sul mare luccica l’astro d’argento

The silver star glitters over the sea

A few song IDs a day are free · unlimited recognition and the library are Premium · saves sync through your private iCloud, and I never see them

102.1The Simulcast

Wherever you are is the studio.

A station shouldn’t live in one pocket. I keep the signal on every set you own.

iPhonethe whole dial in your pocket

CarPlayrides shotgun with Driving Mode

Watchthe full app on the wrist, free, all of it

Widgetsyour last station, one tap from live

Weblisten.radiodad.app keeps a tab warm

Siritunes on a word

103.1The Late Programs

The rest of the schedule.

Four shows got the marquee. These run every night anyway.

Road Trippick two countries and I drive the dial between them, border by border. Free

Ask Dadask in your own words, in chat. I answer with real stations, and the whole conversation stays on the phone

Searchtype “jazz from Osaka” like a person. You get jazz from Osaka

Podcastsfollow, download, queue. Transcripts you can translate

Ask Dad and sentence search need iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence

104.1The House Rules

Rules on the door. Prices on the wall.

Every good station has a policy binder. Mine is three lines and a stone tablet, and the prices hang right under them.

Rule 1 The globe has no search. You spin like everyone else. That’s the sport.
Rule 2 Captions and translation happen on your phone. The words never leave the room.
Rule 3 The Watch app is free. Every part of it.

No ads. No tracking. No account.

Anonymous usage statistics only. That’s the entire fine print. Read it twice if you like; it doesn’t get longer. How we handle data

THE FREE SET