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Re: [Swprograms] Testing the new 1 Radio News app

We reached a milestone with 100+ live stations in English from 40+ nations.

In addition to global news, we've worked to add interesting "slice of life" niche stations like Rural Radio from Nebraska or community public radio from Kodiak Island in Alaska. The big challenge is finding stations with big blocks of original local news and talk programming.

In larger English speaking countries we have added stations in various regions from a leading "outback" station in Australia to St. John's Canada in Newfoundland. In Melbourne we've found an interesting community radio station with lots of talk/interview/discussion oriented shows and in UK we added three more or less arts-oriented stations that are not just music.

The fun continues: http://1radionews.com/live - the full list to date

Along the way, I am collecting links to podcasts from international broadcasters/external services - does anyone already maintain an OMPL file of these sources?Â

Cheers,
Steven Clift
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Steven Clift <1radionewstech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 <1radionewstech@xxxxxxxxx> 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:

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. :-)Â 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.


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