How to Listen to Coast to Coast AM for Free on Your PC

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Coast to Coast AM is a late night radio talk show program. If you are unfortunate to not have a station that plays Coast to Coast or cannot stay up for the program you would normally have to pay for a Streamlink subscription. Read on to find out how to listen to Coast to Coast AM throughout the day or during the program for free.

Things You'll Need

• Internet connection
• PC
• Web Browser
• Winamp (optional) to listen to shows from the previous night

Instructions

1. First, if you want to listen to Coast to Coast AM while it's broadcasting they are over 500 radio stations nationwide that air the show. The show time runs 12am - 4am CST or 1 - 5am EST, 11pm-3am
   MST, or 10pm - 2am PST. Depending on your time zone will determine when you'll need to set up the web player to stream the program live.

2. One of the easiest ways to listen is to stream the program live via a web broadcast. Go to http://www.coaststream.com/ to see a listing of many states that have web players available. Highlight or "Click" on the "Streams" menu option on the left hand side. You'll see the states listed that have stations that play Coast to Coast AM. "Click" on a state you'd like to play their AM station via their web player. The beauty of this site is if one web player doesn't work you can always try another state.

   It's often fun to listen to commercials from other states, it can be a welcome change from the ads of your state. That may sound odd but try it you'll see it's defiantly worth the time.

3. If the above stations don't work for you try this local Houston, TX one. I use it and in the past year plus have not had any issues with it. The station is News Radio 740 KTRH - http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/hdradio/. "Click" on their Listen Live link located in the upper left hand top of the website.

   Give the player a minute to load, an ad will show then the station will stream live.

4. Now that you can listen to Coast to Coast AM live what if you want to listen to past shows. Well you can listen to last night's show and older shows by using Winamp and Shoutcast that's built in.

   First you want to make sure that you've got winamp installed, if you don't go to http://www.winamp.com/player and click on "Download" then select one of the free players. Even the basic players have this feature.

   After it's installed open up winamp and on the left-hand pane go to "Online Services" then click on "Shoutcast Radio"

5. Once you've clicked on "Shoutcast Radio" you'll see thousands of stations show up in the right-hand window. Go up to the "Search" Box and type in coast to coast am. Usually, you'll see 2-3 stations listed.

   Depending on the time of day you'll see various shows available. Often you'll see the previous night's show playing most of the day. Read the "Now playing" column to see which show is playing.

6. Once you've found a show you wish to listen to "double click" on the station name and that station "slots allowing" should start playing automatically. A great advantage to listening to the show after the fact is that you don't have to listen to all the commercials.

   Note: Don't worry if the station doesn't start to play due to a 500 server full error. Just keep trying every few minutes you'll eventually get connected.

Resources

• Coast to Coast AM