New World Music Shows Coming To GCR2

GCR2 is proud to announce the debut of new World music programming on Mondays.

Around the World is a weekly two-hour show hosted by veteran Irish broadcaster Davy Sims. Each week, Davy presents some of the latest and greatest tracks from all corners of the globe, including a featured release of the week. Airs Mondays at 4 PM Eastern/1PM Pacific. Starting December 29th. Debuting on January 5th is Bossa Brasil. This show comes to us from WPVM community radio in Asheville, North Carolina. Tune in to hear an hour of the best in Brazilian music presented by Rodger Collins. Airs Mondays at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific.

Stay tuned for further program schedule updates across all GCR streams.

Ten Years of Global Community Radio

It's hard to believe that GCR is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month. Time truly does fly when you are having fun. I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of GCR's partner stations both past and present, as well as our loyal listeners everywhere. This service could not possibly exist without you. I will always remember that. As 2025 draws to a close, let us look forward to many more years of Global Community Radio!

Jason Longwell
Founder/Station Manager

GCR Welcomes New Partner Station

 Global Community Radio is pleased to welcome WEJP-LP in Wheeling, West Virginia as a new partner station. WEJP will rebroadcast portions of GCR2 during overnights, and may use more content from GCR2 or GCR3 to their schedule in the future. Thanks to John Morgan and the crew at WEJP for choosing to partner with us.

GCR Welcomes Neon Jazz to the GCR3 Schedule

 Global Community Radio is pleased to welcome Neon Jazz to our already diverse lineup of Jazz programs. The show, based in Kansas City, offers listeners some of the best in new releases as well as interview segments with the artists that are making the music and keeping Jazz alive in the 21st century. We'll be airing a mix of new episodes as well as shows from Joe's extensive archive. Tune in late night Monday to Friday for Neon Jazz on GCR3.

VOA R.I.P.

As many of you may already know, after 82 years of being a bastion of free speech, unbiased news coverage, and American culture to the world, The Voice of America and other US Government sponsored international broadcast services were abruptly shuttered last weekend.

Global Community Radio deeply regrets these developments in so many ways, not the least of which being the fact that GCR has been a VOA affiliate since the launch of the station in December of 2015. We have carried many of VOA's programs, in addition to its top of hour newscasts. Now, all of that is gone.

We have been retooling the schedule of GCR1 to accommodate for this sudden loss. We are in negotiations right now with a few other news providers, and details of those negotiations will be forthcoming. In the meantime, we are running some new programming in "test mode" to determine if partner stations and listeners like it. Please tune in to GCR1 and let us know your thoughts. The program schedule is slowly being updated as details are finalized.

There is some hope in certain circles that congress and/or the courts may step in and order that VOA be reinstated. If and when this happens, and if the service is restored to its former glory, and not simply used as a propaganda tool, GCR may consider reinstating some VOA content.

Thank you to all of our partner stations and listeners for their continued support.

Changes to GCR Schedules for 2025

 Global Community Radio has made further changes to its music streams' schedules. These changes are due in part to the cancellation of some shows recently, as well as requests and feedback from our listeners and partner stations. The full and up to date schedules appear on this blog, as always.

GCR Schedule Changes: October 2024

 Global Community Radio has made some changes across all three of its online streams. On GCR1, there are no times for shows like Storage Unit 217, Encouragementology, and the Anna Jinja show. We've also added the new VOA News series The Issue to the lineup. GCR2 adds shows like Blues Hound Radio and Ahmet's House. GCR3 adds The Jazz Oasis, from the same producer who is best know for Blues Before Sunrise. As always, the updated schedules are posted on this website.