1 Radio News app – 1 Radio News, is the quickest shortwave-like radio news app for Android.
Headlines and daily shows on-demand. Top global live stations including many international shortwave broadcasters (or former broadcasters). Radio with English from over 50 countries in one remarkable app.
The app is free. Upgrade to the Pro version for search, “favorites” PlayMix, and no mobile ads.
We’re listed among the “Best Amateur and Shortwave Apps.” And here are some awesome public reviews of the Pro version of the app from shortwave listening fans.
Inspired by Shortware Radio Founder’s Note
1 Radio News was inspired by my experience as a teen in the 1980s with an old shortwave radio that my uncle gave me. In those days, shortwave radio was the only way to listen to the BBC World Service, Radio Moscow, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Netherlands, YLE from Finland, Radio Vlaanderen (Belgium), Radio Sweden, Radio Australia International and others. I strung wire all over place as I “discovered” the world around me before the Internet.
While most “external services” or “world services” no longer broadcast on shortwave, I built 1 Radio News in spirit of increasing global understanding by giving our listener quick and easy access to comparative, unfiltered news from many countries in English. The good news is that now it’s now “static-free” shortwave despite the nostalgia we might have for the signal fading in and out.
If you are looking for actual “shortwave” broadcasts or more links, see a few of these recommended sources:
- World Radio Network – I have no idea who runs this now and there is limited information online – BUT they do have a live stream combining many external services
- On-Demand Links – World of Radio Hitlist
- Shortwave Radio Archive – Go back in time and list to recordings taken off the radio
- Current Shortwave Radio Schedules – If you actually have a shortwave radio in hand, check out Shortwave Info and Shortwave Schedule.
- Listen to Actual Radios – Remotely control real radios attached to the Internet is various locations around the world (say you wanted to listen to news in English from North Korea, this might help)
- Radio Garden – Definitely a fun way to virtually travel the world to listen to LOCAL radio
- Radio Ben 3 (Offline?) – A volunteer gathers the podcasts or records segments from lives stream from main smaller external services (it’s frankly amazing that many of them STILL DON’T CREATE PODCASTS THEMSELVES)
- Online Groups: /shortwave on Reddit, Shortwave-radio Email list, Shortwave DXers Facebook Group, Shortwave Radio Listeners Club Facebook Group
- Glenn Houser’s World of Radio – Podcast