RTA Taranum FM
RTA Taranum is the music channel of Radio Television Afghanistan, the country's state broadcaster. Where RTA's other services carry news, religious programming and national affairs, Taranum is given over almost entirely to music — Afghan classical and folk recordings, Dari and Pashto song, and material drawn from the RTA archive built up across decades of broadcasting from Kabul.
For anyone listening from outside the country, Taranum is the most reliable Afghan music stream available. It is carried on Akamai's content network rather than the small self-hosted servers most Afghan stations depend on, which means it stays up when others drop out and sounds the same from Hamburg or Toronto as it does from Kabul.
Radio Television Afghanistan traces its origins to the first radio broadcasts from Kabul in the 1920s, and the station's archive is one of the few surviving institutional records of twentieth-century Afghan music. Much of what Taranum plays simply is not available on international streaming services.
Frequency Kabul and national relays · Languages Dari, Pashto · Operator Radio Television Afghanistan · Format Afghan music, HLS stream
Listen live on Sandar, free and in the browser — no app to install. RTA Taranum FM streams directly from the broadcaster, so this is the same feed going out on air. Free accounts get a daily listening allowance across all stations; Plus removes it.
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