Listen and watch radio online at NPO 2

NPO Radio 2 is the most listened-to channel in the Netherlands. Also online, so via the website, many people listen to it. But the site offers more than just online radio. For example, you can also find podcasts, articles and texts about programs and DJs. This also applies to the sites of other NPO radio stations, such as Radio 1, 3, 4, and 5. All these sites have broadly the same structure and operation, although there are differences in the amount of information that can be found there.

In this article we explain how the Radio 2 website works. If you have another favorite NPO radio station, you can look around the website of that station yourself using the handles from this article. click on:

• NPO Radio 1
• NPO Radio 3 (3FM)
• NPO Radio 4
• NPO Radio 5

Who Radio 2’s website opens to a homepage with news items, information about the broadcast and a menu at the top of the page. You can look up all kinds of information via this menu. We explain what happens when you press the different buttons.

A visit to the Radio 2 website starts on the homepage. At the top of this page you will find which program is in progress, who is the presenter (with a photo) and which song is being played at that moment.

You don’t hear anything yet: the website does not immediately start with sound. Would you like to listen to the broadcast that is currently going on? Then click on Listen Live. A new window will open and the broadcast will start playing automatically. At the top you will find which song is currently being played and which broadcast is in progress. In the window you have a few options:

• Click the Pause button at the bottom to pause the broadcast. The button changes to a Play button. Click to resume listening. Is there a Pause button, but you can’t hear anything? Then check whether the sound of the device is switched on.
• If necessary, click turned to see an overview of which songs have been played in the past hours.
• click on Guide to see which programs come next.
• click on News to see the latest news about the station. Click on a news item to continue reading it in a new window.
• click on Frequencies for an overview of the frequencies on which the station can be heard in the country.
• Click at the bottom of the page app to message the studio. For this you need to fill in some personal details.
• Click at the bottom of the page Watch live to watch in the studio. Click the Play button.

Would you like to continue searching the website while listening or watching live? Then click the dash at the top right of the Live Listen window to minimize it. Then click again on the homepage of Radio 2. The broadcast continues to play in the background.

You can also watch live on the homepage or send a message to the studio. Click on the buttons for that Watch live and App the studio. On this home page you will also find news items about music, fragments of previously broadcast programs, more about the station and at the very bottom a section with practical information and a registration field for the station’s newsletter.

Next to the Home button is the menu option ‘Live‘. Click to open a video player that allows you to monitor the current broadcast. Scroll down for the playlist (a list of songs that just played) and news items.

Click on the item ‘News‘ to open a page with news stories about music, the station and DJs. These messages can also be found elsewhere on the site, but this tab contains an overview of most messages.

Via the menu button DJs you will come to an overview of all presenters of NPO Radio 2. To discover more about an employee, click on the photo or the name. This opens a page with more information about this person. Please note: not all people have their own page and sometimes an error message appears, such as with Leo Blokhuis.

Do you want to know more about one of the programs of the station, or quickly see which shows can be listened to today? Then you can go to the section ‘Programs‘. Conveniently, the program guide is clickable. If your favorite broadcast is listed, click directly to the program page.

Want to listen back to a program from earlier today or another day? This can be done via the ‘missed‘. This shows an overview of the programs from earlier in the day. The camera button opens the video player and the speaker button activates the missed radio broadcast. Programs from a few days ago can also be found here.

Between Christmas and New Years, even more people than usual listen to Radio 2. That is when the station plays the Top 2000. Listeners submit their favorite songs and a ranking of the 2000 best songs emerges. Click in the menu on Top 2000, then a themed section opens with news items and, of course, last year’s rankings. You can find out how each song scored in previous years. This section of the site also contains all kinds of statistics about the list over the years, with fun facts about the music.

The playlist is the list of songs that have been heard on a station or in a program. Click on a song for background information about the artist or song. You can’t listen to a song again here.

Podcasts are special broadcasts on a specific topic. They are a kind of series to listen to, often presented by regular DJs. You can listen to them whenever and wherever it suits you. On the Radio 2 site you will find thirty different podcasts, made by DJs from the station. For example, there is ’30 minutes raw with Ruud de Wild’, in which the presenter asks a guest sharp questions. Click on a title to proceed to a page with episodes of that podcast. Below each episode is a play button that starts the podcast. Here is also the option to subscribe to this podcast. This will keep you informed of new episodes. This is especially useful for smartphone and tablet users.

Info is the page with practical information about the sender and contact details. To the right of this tab you will also find a search button to search the site.