Sarawak FM Live Streaming

When the station started, Sarawak was still a British crown colony, and radio was the only medium capable of reaching a population spread across coast, rivers and deep interior.

Sarawak entered the Malaysian Federation in 1963, and the station joined the Radio Malaysia network along with it. That history makes it one of the longest-running broadcast services in the country – older than most of the stations it now sits beside on the dial.

Sarawak is Malaysia’s largest state by a wide margin, and a great deal of it is river country, forest and scattered settlement rather than connected towns.

That geography shows up plainly in the transmitter list. Sarawak FM runs on more than a dozen frequencies, spread roughly between 88 and 105 MHz, reaching Kuching, Sibu, Miri, Limbang and a long tail of smaller places in between. Some of those signals carry across the border into Brunei.

Very few stations in Malaysia need that many frequencies. Covering Sarawak from a single mast was never going to work.

Radio is local by design, which is exactly the problem for anyone who has left.

Plenty of Sarawakians live and work in the peninsula, in Singapore, or much further afield – well outside the reach of any of those transmitters. The stream removes the limitation completely. No frequency, no receiver, no geography.

It plays in a browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, which makes it easy to keep a piece of home running quietly in the background, wherever the work happens to be.