Howdy all, I'm Steven Clift. When I was a kid a few decades ago, my uncle gave me a shortwave radio. >From my home stuck smack dab between two Mississippi river bluffs in Winona, MN with only one decent TV station, I discovered for myself that I could be connected to the wide wide world from my small town via shortwave. It was liberating.
Fast forward thirty years, I still love in-depth radio news, but I find it difficult to quickly listen to the news stations I want on my new "radio" ... my Android smart phone. Just listening to the latest headlines from multiple sources isn't easy either. Frankly, most podcasting apps are rather complicated compared to pushing a pre-set on a radio. So, over many months I've been scouring the net trying to find very global English language radio news stations to add them to my 1 Radio News app. Here is the result: http://bit.ly/1radioapps I'd be curious what you think! Which radio news station streams in English from international broadcasters am I missing? (or mostly English) In the Google Play app descriptions, I am keeping the station lists up to date including 65+ stations now on "pro." The main website is: http://1radionews.com I've also included a sampling of domestic public radio and commercial news/talk stations in English from as many countries as possible. I've curated with a selective eye highlighting sources with original content. There are some great streams locked in Flash however. I still have a U.S. talk radio sampler to add. For example, I am looking for the best farm/rural station focused on news, etc. to add and not just stations with repetitive syndicated content. I want to share a huge thanks with the shortwave community. SWLing picked up a local news story about it and blogged about the app: http://bit.ly/1radionewsSWLblog Also, Alan Roe's station "hitlist" is great http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm ... if I had stumbled upon it months ago instead of last week, I would have saved sooo much time. :-) But it did point me to Radio 360 podcasts collection ... I hope to add options for playing just the latest English program podcasts on-demand down the road. Voice of Mongolia, that's awesome ... I've actually been there in my "democracy online" work life FYI: http://stevenclift.com And John Figliozzi's Radio Listings PDF - http://wwlgonline.com - holy smokes, that's detailed. Now if I could get that Bhutan stream to play. Finally http://PublicRadioFan.com has been hugely helpful along with VTuner and FIFM to surface the actual streams. Cheers, Steven Clift http://1radionews.com [email protected] +1 612 234 7072
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