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:
- Search for a news podcast
- Select the news podcast of interest
- Subscribe to the news podcast
- Pick which episode you want to listen to
- Download that episode
- Play the episode
- 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:
- Scroll and press one button for the news source of interest
- Listen
OK, there are more options:
- Starting in your regional/national “Edition”
- Scroll down and press the button of interest to play OR
- Swipe to over to HOURLY or SHOWS (daily) to the right for many global news sources in English
- 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:
- 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 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.