Month: June 2023

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)

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.

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.

Over ten years ago we started with radio news.

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.

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:

• Flashpoint Ukraine from the Voice of America – Leveraging coverage from VOA’s global network (often published first each day)
• Ukraine, the Latest – From the Daily Telegraph and their network of correspondents. They bring out the human story and provide wide analysis.
• Ukraine War Brief – Linnea and Yewleea bring you up to speed on the War in Ukraine in about 20 minutes or less.
• Highlights from Ukraine – Summary of the latest news reported in the Ukrainian media. Get your favourite morning hot beverage and let’s deep dive into what Ukrainian media have been reporting the day before.
• Privateer Station: War In Ukraine – Daily war diaries from Arestovych and Feygin translated into English from ФЕЙГИН LIVE (English translation also available on YouTube OR in our companion TV News App.)
• The Russia-Ukraine War Report – From Malcontent News – analysis and assessments on how today’s stories shape the war’s future. Coverage includes the battlefront, geopolitics, economics, and human impact.
• State of the World (was Ukraine) from NPR – The shortest of the bunch, but now only occasionally about Ukraine

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:

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