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In Addition to Listening to the Radio You Can Listen Online!
Smartphone App:It allows you to listen to WERU live and to archived shows from your phone! Just search for WERU in your favorite app store. The app is available for both Apple and Android smartphones. A very big thank you to theMaine Community Foundation for funding the development of the app. We hope you try it and enjoy it!
Live Stream: Use the player on the top of our site to listen to what is on the air right now. Click on the play button to launch the pop-up player window.Or you can use these links for your favorite way of listening:
- https://stream.pacificaservice.org:9000/weru_128 (128k stereo)
- AtTuneIn Radio‘s site or search for “WERU” with aTuneIn app.
- Tell your Amazon Echo device, “Alexa, listen to WERU.”
- Tell your Google Home device, “Hey Google, play eighty-nine point nine” – if you are in our regular broadcast area – or “Hey Google, play WERU on Tune-in”. (You will get a “Tune in” jingle and an ad before the WERU stream will play. Please let me know if neither of these work for you.) Once you’ve used one of these commands successfully, you can subsequently use: “Hey Google, play the radio”
On-demand Archives of all shows from the past two weeks. ViewRecent Archives,Schedule Grid, andalphabetically. You can also listen to WERU onRadio Free America.
Local Public Affairs Archives includes past years of our locally produced Public Affairs shows.
For thorough tips on improving your radio reception, visit our surprisingly often visited page,Improving Radio Reception.
Podcast Feeds
In addition to our listening to WERU’s shows via ourlive streamandon-demand archives, you can hear our archived shows via subscribing to our Local Public Affairs Archives as podcasts.
Definition of PodcastingFirst off, if you are not familiar with what podcasting is you may want to read more about it. A good place to start is at wikipedia aten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
How to subscribe
In order to subscribe to a podcast of all or some of our audio archives, you will need a Podcast app, an ‘aggregator’ or, more simply, a utility that will run on your computer or mobile device which will regularly check WERU’s audio archives for updates. When it finds new updates to the feeds you have subscribed to, it will automatically download them so you can listen at your convenience. Popular Podcasting apps areiTunesandWinamp. A full list of podcasting software can be found aten.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_podcatchers.
- Use theiTuneslink for your Mac or Windows PC with iTunes installed.
- Use theiOSlink for your iPhone or iPad.
- Use theAndroidlink on your Android smartphone or tablet.
- Use the URL of theRSSlink in your podcatching software.
- Use theFeedlink to open the podcast in your already installed podcatcher.
