text: is itunes radio free?   yes itunes radio is free. a dozen or so music categories (rock, alt...) each category displays various station streams. some need broadband connections to listen to cleanly without stops.  however i can stream smaller bandwith(less than 56k) stations at home on my 49k dialup quite well.   i'll take flak for even mentioning this, but, microsoft media player also has free radio streams as well.