Global Player radio stations unavailable in Apple Music

From Apple:

"Apple changed the backend for radio streaming but didn’t fully update Siri to handle these cases consistently. For stations like LBC, Siri still looks for the old Global stream first and fails instead of automatically switching to TuneIn. 

We’ve noted it as a bug. We’ve escalated this feedback to Apple for review."

The point being that WE should not be required to add "via TuneIn" (the 'workaround' which is not completely reliable) to force the backend to go via TuneIn if the Global stream has been deprecated but somehow left instructionally available.

Update 05Dec25 18:00 GMT (day 9): I chased up Global Player support again to see if they could add weight by means of an escalation into Apple for a speedy resolution, here’s their response… “I (GP service agent) have been in touch with our team, who have confirmed that they're still in talks with Apple directly to resolve this issue. 

Unfortunately, we are unable to confirm a time frame as to when this will be resolved.”

Update 01Dec25 16:00GMT (day 5): I chased up Apple support under my case ref, Apple are aware of this issue affecting a number of radio services, not just Classic FM, no fix date as yet.

I have noticed recently that very occasionally streaming connection for Classic FM is made but drops out after 30 seconds, having said that most attempts do not connect and Siri reports “sorry, there was a problem with Apple Music”…the wait continues.

I have not been able to play classic Fm but you can airplay from UK radio app it’s free

Classic FM (only) streaming issues across all my Apple devices continues, into day three.

I have reported it to Global Player and they have in turn reported this issue into Apple, I too have also reported into Apple on the same day, Thu 27 Nov 25.

I have the same issue. It appears this has occurred since the update to iOS 26.1. Hopefully Apple can rectify this ASAP with a software update.

Exactly the same here, been broken since Thursday afternoon.

Same here anything Global Player not working. Heart etc is fine

Same here despite resets etc just won’t play classic fm

It's not 26.1 specifically, mine worked fine with that, it's something that's happened in the last couple of days. RJKflyer above appears to have the scoop ^^.

Ben Poole: Agreed 👍🏼