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.
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:
Favorite the news podcasts (and live stations) you like.
Pro activates the Search option as well.
On the far left see “PLAYMIX” and sort your Favorites (from the LIST view you toggle on the top right)
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 beforeAmazon 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’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:
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.
Favorite a bunch of channels. From Mongolia and Thailand to Ukraine and France, you’ll find daily news in English.
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, 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.
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.
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
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!
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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.
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.
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!!
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.)
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
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.
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
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!
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.
* 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.
