For those who have tested out the app, what do you think? Thanks!!
Steve http://bit.ly/1radioapps P.S. We were featured in an email newsletter on the future of radio today: http://1radionews.com/1-radio-news-featured-james-cridlands-weekly-links-radios-future-email-newsletter/ On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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