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It’s time to Go Pro with 1 Radio News.

Watch our short Pro demo.


Join our community of vital supporters by subscribing (monthly/yearly) to Pro or make a one-time purchase for a lifetime of the app Pro features.

Why?

  • Save Favorites – Keep the popular and obscure hourly and daily news programs in one place.
  • PlayMix – Sort your Favorites into your own personalized radio “station.” Start playing shows from anywhere in your PlayMix and the app will just keep playing until it plays through all the latest episodes.
  • Sleep Timer
  • No Digital Ads – No more full screen or banner on-screen ads. (All the audio ads are placed by the audio content producers, so we can’t do anything about that … we’ll you can always press the skip ahead 30 seconds button.)
  • Search – As our highly curated library grows, this is a quick way to dig in. All the audio programming in our app is free via podcasting, but often hard to find.
  • Advanced Audio Player – The more Pro supporters we get, the more features we can build.

 

Alexa, play the BBC Global News Podcast on my Smart Speaker

Frustrated by how your smart speaker just won’t play the “Global News Podcast” from the BBC?

I am.

OK, here is what you need to say precisely … Alexa,

  • “play the Global News Podcast podcast” or

 

  • “play the podcast Global News Podcast”

YES, you must say “podcast” in two places. Don’t say “BBC.”

Don’t expect these commands to work consistently:

  • Alexa, play the Global News Podcast
  • Alexa, play the BBC Global News Podcast

As long as I have your attention, here are some other handy news lovers voice commands:

Alexa, …

  • “open BBC headlines on BBC Sounds” … plays hourly news bulletin for five minutes

 

  • “play BBC news” … plays the BBC World Service live stream

 

  • “play BBC Radio 4” …live stream

 

  • “play BBC Radio 5” … live stream

 

  • “play the podcast Newshour on TuneIn” … MUST say “on TuneIn” or your Echo will play PBS Newshour

Hey, what about Google?

OK, Google …

play BBC news … plays the hourly news bulletin from the BBC World Service

 

The BBC has their own tips on accessing their services on smart speakers.

News Podcasts Apps: Your Guide to Today’s News Radio On-Demand

Finding lots of news podcasts is easy.

Finding the best news podcasts to then quickly play today’s episode is more difficult.

While you can use popular podcast apps to find news like Spotify’s popular news and politics, Apple Podcast’s daily news category and others, there is one news podcasts app that specializes in finding today’s news from the popular media sources.

It’s 1 Radio News. (on Android)

1 Radio News Screenshot

Our philosophy is simple – when it comes to “news” you want new news.

You don’t want yesterday’s news and you don’t want to spend 10 minutes trying to find the “right” 10 minutes of news.

You want to quickly “change the station” if you want something different.

How is 1 Radio News a news podcasts player?

Unlike your typical podcast app, as news lover, you don’t have to do this:

  1. Search for a news podcast
  2. Select the news podcast of interest
  3. Subscribe to the news podcast
  4. Pick which episode you want to listen to
  5. Download that episode
  6. Play the episode
  7. Listen

When we started 10 years ago, we imagined pre-set buttons on your car radio, just press a button to change the channel and listen.

Radio Pre-Sets

So with 1 Radio News, IF you are looking for the latest hourly news, you just open the app:

  1. Scroll and press one button for the news source of interest
  2. Listen

OK, there are more options:

  1. Starting in your regional/national “Edition”
  2. Scroll down and press the button of interest to play OR
  3. Swipe to over to HOURLY or SHOWS (daily) to the right for many global news sources in English
  4. Press a button and listen

You may also swipe to the left for dozens of LIVE news radio (and some TV audio) channels. Scroll down for “Easter eggs” with spoken-word radio channels including comedy.

Also, to the right, we have the bonus “SHORTS” section which highlights daily (M-F) short podcasts from Dad jokes to words of the day to today in history.

Can I subscribe/follow specific news podcasts on 1 Radio News?

Yes! Try out our “Pro” level and support our extensive curation and app development.

Here is how it works with Pro:

  1. Favorite the news podcasts (and live stations) you like.
  2. Pro activates the Search option as well.
  3. On the far left see “PLAYMIX” and sort your Favorites (from the LIST view you toggle on the top right)
  4. Press the Green Play All button on the bottom right. Or play an individual podcast.

By sorting your favorites, you are practically programming your own daily radio station.

We pioneered our easier to use “play all” concept five years before Amazon Alexa’s Flash briefings and Google Assistant’s news settings. We also have far more daily news podcasts available for your “play all” experience and not just hourly headlines.

Finally, if you like listening to older news content or really want to know what’s in the episode before you listen, we do recommend that you use your traditional podcast app.

Try 1 Radio News to see what we’ve discovered deep across the podcast world – that vitally still produce fresh content – and then search the ones you like best in your everyday podcast app to follow those new sources.

Use 1 Radio News when you want to quickly play the latest news and other podcast players when you have extra time on your hand to go through lots of episodes to find the news topics that interest you most.

We specialize in curating global news podcasts in English as well as a great collection of national news podcasts from the United States.

Want to WATCH the TV News?

Over ten years ago we started with radio news.

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We’ve spent HUNDREDS of hours sourcing hourly, daily, and live radio news for you so you can just press play and listen to headline from around the world in English.

BUT sometimes you might be craving video. In fact, for those who remember the shortwave era, today all audio in general is secondary investment wise for “world services” or “external services.” Many more countries produce video to share their news, culture, and perspectives for global audiences.

So here are our tips for super world news junkies:

  1. Install the TV News App on Android or the TV News Channel app on iOS.
  2. Set Favorites during the set up.
  3. Go to the ALL section and use the bottom filters. On the bottom left is “Region.” Buried in there is the option called “World Services.” Select it. Then on the right choose English or the Language or interest.
  4. Favorite a bunch of channels. From Mongolia and Thailand to Ukraine and France, you’ll find daily news in English.
  5. When you open the app “YOUR MIX” will show you the NEW video from the last 8 hours just from your Favs. Use the filters on the bottom to increase the number of videos per channel to 5 and the time frame up to 48 hours.

Like our 1 Radio News app, our focus is squarely on NEW news from quality sources.

Oh, our TV News App has nearly 3,000 channels in 100 languages from most countries. We dig deep into YouTube and leverage their API and terms of services to bring what’s buried and fresh from just minutes ago to you.

Ukraine War Podcasts – Daily News about Russia’s war against Ukraine

1 Radio News highlights a special group of podcasts about the Ukraine war and the Russian invasion.

Try the 1 Radio News app on Android and go to the SHOWS section and scroll down a bit.

You will find five DAILY (M-F) podcasts to choose from:

Request: Radio Ukraine International live streams in multiple languages including English – but has no technical podcast RSS feeds that we can find. They do have daily Ukraine: Security Issue and  The Unbreakable available on-demand via the web. We’d like to get connected with the right people to offer our assistance to get their content into the powerful podcast world. Contact us.

As 1 Radio News focuses on daily and not weekly or irregular content (at this point anyway), there are additional podcasts to consider.

Here’s a quick way to find the freshest episodes from podcasts about the conflict (with at least weekly episodes) that are active as of June, 2023:

Gearing up for our 10th Anniversary!

It’s hard to believe that 1 Radio News is now 10 years old.

Years before Amazon’s  Alexa brought us the flash briefing, the original 1 Radio News made it simple to just play hourly news headlines.

Over the years we added daily news shows and then live news radio streams in English from around the world.

We remain the only Android “podcast” app that finds all the daily news sources for you and let’s you quickly play the latest episode by pressing one button. We’re the quickest way to change the channel! We know that most of you just want the “new” news and that’s what we deliver.

Then came the first version of Pro with the “Play Mix” where you essentially sort your favorites into your own almost live radio station.

A few years ago, we rebuilt 1 Radio News from scratch and now you can support our ongoing curation efforts and access the search, sleep timer, and Play Mix with subscription or one-time purchase within our free app

As we gear up for our anniversary, we’ve just completed round one of our global refresh adding new daily news podcasts from more countries. They are sorted under SHOWS following the international dateline in a Pacific and working our way around the world. We added some extra smarts to our podcast feed reader and now we’ve added more than a dozen “shortwave” programs in English from countries as diverse as Zambia, Nepal, Algeria and CubaDig in and discover global perspectives with NEW content Monday-Friday from most shows in the app.

The rest of the year, we are exploring new featured for our Pro supporters. We decided that unlike our previous version that all the live, hourly, and daily news programming would be FREE (it was always free somewhere) via the app. Now there is so much, you go Pro for search and the Play Mix to make it easy to find your favorites.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and ideas for the app! Contact us: comments@1radionews.com

1 Radio News is dead. Long live the 1 Radio News.

UPDATE 2: The rebuilt 1 Radio News is now available. Pro features are now being unleashed one by one as well.

UPDATE 1: Good news! We reached our $1000 pledge drive goal to rebuild 1 Radio News.

Thank you to our first 40 donors, you made this happen. Your $5 and $20 donations got us to the top. I also want to share an especially heartfelt thanks to James Tedford who donated the last $173 we needed to reach our goal on our deadline date and for his previous early donation of $250. These two donations and an anonymous donation of $150 brought us over half the way. Thank you!

Additional donations will be used to add NEW mostly Pro-level features – on our list in no promised order are a radio Alarm Clock, Chromecast support, Android Auto version, basic voice commands, etc.

Work on the rebuild will start with replicating the free version of 1 Radio News and all donors will be invited in to help as Beta testers as we unveil and test the more complicated Pro features one by one. “Pro” will become an in-app subscription within the free 1 Radio News.

As promised, a special Pro subscription for the life of the app will be given to donors of any amount (at least a $40 value). If you want to donate now for that special deal, do it!

1 Radio News needs your help.

Our app needs to be rebuilt after seven years of service. The code base can no longer be patch up with gum.

Donate here to save 1 Radio News via GoFundMe.

Get 1 Radio News

I promised my family, that 1 Radio News must cover its own costs and essentially not tap my kid’s education funds. 🙂 It has never covered my time, but I love buy soma from trusted pharmacy this app and use it everyday myself.

It’s good news that we will continue to generate enough revenue to maintain the app. 

However, we must secure your listener support to completely rebuild the app to make it compatible with the latest versions of Android and add some new features. (Yes, we will fix the stability problems for all you Android 9 users!!)

We need to raise at least $1000 to pay my new developer. If you help us raise that amount, I’ll put any extra needed on my credit card to get it done.

Donate here to improve 1 Radio News via GoFundMe.

More good news, we’ve already raised $330 from six donors. Please join them now.

All donors – at any amount – will get a free life-time of the app subscription to the new 1 Radio News “Pro” level (a $39 value). 

Going forward, our Pro supporter will be invited to support an ever improving app on a monthly or yearly basis if you’d rather not pitch in now. With a regular in-app subscription we will have a way to invest in new features and grow a more up to date directory of today’s freshest news podcasts and live streams. Our app will focus on solid curation and perhaps even add languages based on requests from in-app subscribers.

The current “pay once” 1 Radio News Pro app will be retired before the end of 2020. If you haven’t gotten your $3 in value, let me know and I will gladly refund you even if you used it every day for seven years.

What happens if we don’t raise $1000. The app will shut down. It’s been a great ride world radio fans!!

Donate here to be an awesome 1 Radio News supporter via GoFundMe.

TV News app is the world’s best news video app – Meet our cousin

TV News is a simple free news video player app for Android.

The free news app gathers live and on-demand video news from across YouTube into an easy to use directory of fresh breaking news from today.

It includes dozens of live free cable news channels in many languages as well as over 100 sources of high quality trusted mainstream news video channels on-demand in English. (And a few less trusted sources filled with state-funded propaganda, but that’s what diverse global perspectives are all about.)

Install the news video app today on Google Play.

TV News will never be the same well, OK I guess it will.

The 220+ best radio news streams in/with English

… and spoken word live stations too.

This is what our highly selective, high quality 1 Radio News Pro directory of live streams has in it. It represents hundreds of hours of scouring the world for the best live streams in English so you can experience the best of the best. We just finished our spring cleaning with lots of updates.

If you want news, you no longer need to get lost in an app with ten of thousands of stations with broken streams or strange music.

Get the 1 Radio News Pro app today (or try the free app first with the most popular 20+ live streams and a few odd balls for variety thrown in). In addition to live news+ streams, we have over 450 carefully selected hourly, daily, and weekly news radio shows on-demand (aka podcasts) in English. We toss in some entertaining weekend shows from public radio and some of the most popular insightful podcasts around the world as well. We now have radio news in English from over 70 countries.

ABC Darwin Australia
ABC Extra
ABC Sydney 702 Australia
AM New York City WNYC
AP Radio US – Associated Press
AlJazeera English
Alaska Kodiak KMXT
Albania Radio Tirana 3 (1:30, 20h UTC Eng)
Algeria, Radio Internationale (30 min English daily)
American Senior Radio Network
Antigua Observer Radio
Argentina R Exterior (3h,18h UTC Eng)
Arirang South Korea
Australia 2GB – Sydney News+Talk
Australia 3AW – Melbourne
Australia Grandstand
Australia NewsRadio
Australia Perth 6PR
Australia Radio National
BBC Asian Network (for UK)
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio London
BBC Radio Scotland
BBC Radio Ulster
BBC Radio Wales
BBC World Service Low Bandwidth (via VPR)
BBC World Service News-Only
BBC World Service w/sport UK
Bahamas Guardian Radio
Biz New Zealand NBR
Bloomberg Business Radio
Boston WBUR
Brit Virgin Islands ZBVI
British Comedy Abacus – OTR
Brussels Radio X (mostly music)
C-SPAN 1 US TV Audio
C-SPAN 2 US
C-SPAN 3 US TV Audio
C-SPAN Radio US
CA Sportsnet Toronto Canada
CBC Radio One Canada (Toronto)
CBS News Radio
CNN HLN TV Audio (US-only)
Canada Accessible Media service for sight impaired
Canada NewsTalk Toronto
Channel Africa from South Africa (mostly English)
Chicago WBBM – News/Talk
Chicago WBEZ
China EzFM China Radio International
China NewsPlus China Radio International am846
Comedy Legends – OTR
Conservative Talk – WSB Atlanta
Croatian, Voice of
DC WTOP News
Deutsche Welle
Dubai Eye
Dublin City FM Ireland
EbS European Commission (silent between programs)
EbS+ European Commission (silent between programs)
Europe-Only KCRW Berlin (US and local programs)
Fox News Radio
France 24 TV Audio
France 24 TV Audio (Higher Data Use)
Funny Ha Ha
Germany DW TV Audio
Greece Athina (inc BBC)
Green Living Glimmerglass Radio
Grenada CHIME
Hong Kong MetroPlus
Hong Kong Radio 3
ICRT Taiwan
IRSS Shortwave
India AIR World Service (Limited Schedule)
India Biz NDTV Profit 24×7 Audio
India CNN IBN TV Audio
India FM Gold (AIR Domestic, Some English) 48 KBPS AAC
India NDTV 24×7 Audio
India Rainbow (AIR Domestic, Some English) 48 KBPS AAC
Indonesia, Voice of
Iran ParsToday (was IRIB World Service)
Iran PressTV TV Audio
Ireland Connemara Community Radio (inc music, not 24hrs)
Ireland Galway Bay FM (inc music)
Ireland Near FM N Dublin (inc music)
Ireland NewsTalk
Ireland RTE TV Audio
Israel IDC Student Radio
Israel Reka Intl Radio
Israel TLV1
Jamaica Nationwide
Jamaica NewsTalk
Jamaica PowerFM 106 FM
Japan Tokyo FM World
Jordan Beat FM
Learning English VOA – see http://learningenglish.voanews.com
Libertarian – Liberty Radio Network
MSNBC International TV Audio
MSNBC TV Audio
Melbourne Au Community Radio 3CR
Minneapolis WCCO – News/Talk
Minnesota Public Radio – American Public Media
Monaco/FR Riviera Radio (some news)
Monocle 24
N Cyprus Bayrak Int (Turkish community)
NBC News Radio
NYC 1010 WINS CBS News
NYC WABC
NYC WBAI (Pacifica)
NYC WCBS
NZ Access Radio Wellington (some news/talk)
NZ Radio Sport New Zealand
Namibia National Service
New York City WNYC FM
New Zealand 3 News Live TV Audio
New Zealand NewsTalk ZB
New Zealand RadioLive
News Radio UK
NewsTalk WOL – DC Black Talk Radio
Nigeria Today FM
Nigeria.Info Radio
Northeast Public Radio (NY) WAMC
Nunavut CBC Radio One Canada
OTR ACB Treasure Trove – American Council of the Blind
OTR Antiquity Radio antiquityradio.com
OTR British Radio UK pumpkinfm.com
OTR Comedy Mystery Play Internet Radio mpir-otr.com
OTR History Capsule Mystery Play Internet Radio mpir-otr.com
OTR Mystery Play Internet Radio mpir-otr.com
Old Time Radio – AM 1710 Antioch – OTR
Oman T FM
PRX Remix
Pakistan, Radio Current Affairs Channel
Philadelphia WHYY
Progressive Talk – WCPT Chicago
ROK British Comedy – Classic Radio – OTR
ROK Crime and Suspense Radio – OTR
ROK Gold OTR Radio – OTR
ROK Sci Fi – Classic Radio – OTR
RT Russia News TV Audio
RTE Radio 1 Extra Ireland
RTE Radio 1 Ireland
Radio Australia Intl Pacific
Radio Belarus (often in English)
Radio France Internationale
Radio Gibraltar
Radio Havana Cuba (some English)
Radio Montserrat ZJB
Radio New Zealand International
Radio New Zealand National
Radio Poland English
Radio Prague (Eng 1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22h UTC Summer, +1 Winter)
Radio Romania Intl
Radio Slovakia Intl
Radio Slovenia Intl
Radio Sweden P6
Radio Thailand (frequently down)
Russia Radio Sputnik
S Korea Arirang TV Audio
SAfm South Africa
Science+ Radio Newark, Delaware
Science360 Radio
Seattle – KIRO Radio
Seattle KUOW
Singapore 938Live
South Africa 702 Joburg
South Africa CliffCentral.com
Spain R Exterior (1h,22:30h UTC Eng M-F)
St. John’s VOCM Canada
St. Vincent WeFM
St. Vincent and the Grenadines NBC
TICNetwork (for sight impaired)
TV Blindy TV
TV Etc Blindy TV
Taiwan, Radio Taiwan Intl
Talk Radio Europe (Spain)
Tech TWiT.tv Audio
Toronto 680 News Canada
Toronto AM640 Canada
Trinidad & Tobago i955
UK Cornucopia – Drama
UK LBC News
UK Leading Britains Conversation
UK Manx Radio AM
UK RNIB Connect was Insight Radio service for sight impaired
UK Radio Ha Ha – Comedy – Some profanity
UK Resonance – Arts Radio
UK SkyNews TV Audio
UK TalkSport London
UK Wind Up Channel – Steve Penk
US ACB Radio Mainstream – American Council of the Blind – acbradio.org
US ESPN
US Federal News Radio
US National Public Radio
US Pacifica KPFK Los Angeles
US Public Radio Intl
US Sports Radio New York WFAN
Ukraine Radio Intl (English 7 hrs day)
Vancouver CBC Radio One Canada
Vancouver CKNW Canada
Vanuatu Capital FM
Vienna Intl Radio Austria (w/music)
Vietnam, Voice of – English
Voice of America English
Voice of America for Africa
Voice of Barbados
Voice of Turkey World
Voice of the Cape South Africa (Muslim focus)
WBCQ Shortwave from Maine
WBZ Boston
Wisconsin WPR
World FM – Inc WRN for Asia
World Radio Network North America
World Radio Network for Europe
World Radio Switzerland (w/BBC)
Zimbabwe ZiFM
e-Fm Busan S Korea
euronews in English
myTalk – Social Talk Minnesota
talkRADIO UK

Get 1 Radio News Pro today.

New Features? Donate to Make it Happen

The two most requested 1 Radio News Pro features are:

  • Search – Show and Station Search
  • Better Player* – Rewind, Playing Now Time and Progress Bar, etc.

Do you want those new features too?

If yes, donate here today via PayPal.**

Your support is vital. With just 1,000 active Pro users each month, we need every loyal user that can afford it to donate something if we are to improve this app and to maintain the constantly changing playlist.

International radio news interest is an extremely niche interest and the work required cannot be covered by a one-time app price.

Revenue from Pro sales and ads on the Free version are only covering 10% of our software development and support time costs. All the revenue is being invested back into tech “maintenance” and I’ve eaten the over $100,000 in time costs over the last three years.

So to get the new features you want, we need your help now.

The next update will also squash the top three crash causing bugs on both the Free and Pro versions. Another huge fix is a massive reduction in data use with the Play-All feature. We’ve also adapted our tech to better play the English-language podcasts from India’s national public broadcaster.

 

Crowdfunding the future 1 Radio News – Together we can build this

Anyone donating any amount now to our crowdfunding effort will get access to a free lifetime subscription to the future all-new 1 Radio in late 2018. This is a limited time offer.

While updates to the current 1 Radio News Pro playlist will continue for at least another full year, a future amazing rebuilt from scratch 1 Radio will switch to a $2 (or less) monthly subscription for premium features and a larger directory. We need at least $3,000 a monthly in revenue and not $300 to continue this labor of love.

What we do better than anyone in the world is find, review, and sort the best hourly, daily and weekly news and analysis audio content on-demand. We will bring our master curation to new languages and more local news headlines as well. To keep this app going, the couple thousand people on Android who really really love news radio who both bought the Pro app and use it regularly need to band to together to make this a viable small business. Might the next version of the app attract tens of thousands of subscribers, maybe, but I doubt it. But if there are 1,000 of you willing to pay $2 a month, we can keep this radio train moving!

So donate any amount today and consider a monthly donation.

Our goal is to raise $1,000 for these two new priority features and $10,000 for the full rebuild. If you’d like to invest in a future matching fund or explore opportunities to take 1 Radio to 1 million downloads, please get in touch.

Thanks,

Steven Clift – Contact me.
1 Radio News Guy

* The better player plans include a playing now progress bar where you can forward or rewind to a specific point in a show, a ten second rewind button, and playing time information. This way if you need to come back to a longer on-demand show you can skip ahead. With enough support, we are considering adding a skip feature you can use with Play-All and your favorites PlayMix to jump to the next show as well as the option to speed up or slow down on-demand audio.

** Donations are not tax deductible for this is simply a small business that is more of a subsidized hobby with the potential for more.