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Daily and hourly news radio headlines on-demand and live world radio news in English.

📻 Welcome to Steve's 1 Radio News 📻

Celebrating 10+ years and 300,000+ downloads with new shows and stations added.

I wanted a simple world radio news app, so I built it. I like to quickly listen to radio news hourly headlines on-demand and then stream live world radio news like the BBC World Service.

How about you?

Please try this free news radio app and let me know if you like it too!

Learn more ...

Press one simple green "Play-All" button to listen to hourly radio news.

Or you can listen one at a time to over ten top on-demand English-language breaking news headline sources (1) like BBC News radio, NPR news, CBC, VOA, Fox News Radio, NHK, UK SkyNews, CBS News Radio, etc. gathered in one convenient place.

It's like Amazon Alexa's Flash Briefing without the Amazon Echo required.

Our new daily news collection included NPR's Up First, The Daily podcast from the New York Times, the BBC's Global News Podcast and BBC World Service Newshour podcasts, as well as news shows from Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India and more.

After the news podcasts, listen live news radio collection of 100+ live radio stations.

Live stations (1) include the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, NPR news (US), CBC Radio One (Canada), NDTV audio from India, Al Jazeera, France 24, KBS from Korea, ABC National from Australia, VOA - the Voice of America, RTE Radio 1 from Ireland, Radio New Zealand, SAFm from South Africa, Monocle 24 Radio, and more radio news stations - all in English. The NPR news live stream includes Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

We've added audio from 24/7 cable news channels in English from all over the world from CTV and Global News from Canada to France 24, i24 from Israel, DW from Germany, TRT from Turkey, and more.

Deep in our collection are some of the best live streams of British comedy and Old Time Radio and a signature sports news and talk radio station from many English-speaking countries.

Try this free radio app to see all the stations. It's like shortwave radio reborn. (If you are asking what the heck shortwave radio is, that's OK ... if you love real news, this app is for you).

Upgrade to Pro

1 Radio News is supported in large part by our radio news lovers who upgrade to Pro. Features include "PlayMix" where you set Favorites and sort them into your own order. It's like programming your own on-demand news radio station where the hourly news, daily news, and other frequently updated news podcasts play the freshest episode one after the other. Combined with our sleep timer, Pro is definitely for the news junkie who loves to listen to their news.

Let us know how you like the news app and email us any technical questions: comments@1radionews.com

Happy Listening!

Steven Clift
1 Radio News

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(1) This is an independent podcast and audio player app. No endorsement is implied and radio networks own their own content. App provides convenient access to publicly shared audio content.

Try our new TV News companion app too - TV News App: http://tvnewsapp.com