CBC Listen

it is very good for advanced english learners

No support to cast to a google smart speaker. Same network, google home setup properly. Other apps work fine.

Thanks to all the folks at CBC for everything you do on both CBC Music and CBC1. I’m not a fan of the pop music channels who do not reflect our Cdn lives within most of the music they play. I wish CRTC would do more to help our own artists to survive in this increasingly rigorous and competitive landscape. CBC is there to keep our songs alive, and our languages our hearts and our ideas shared to one another. Today, with the end to so many things that we once depended on to bind ourselves as a nation, CBC is our only surviving infrastructure. Keep us alive CBC as our figure heads, to help us thrive and continue defining who we are together

The world this hour used to be my go to way to get a quick news fix. Recently it started beginning with an ad for another CBC radio show that can’t be skipped, isn’t clearly identified as such, and lasts so long that I lose patience and shut it off before ever getting to the news. I’m not going to listen to the advertised show. I’m going to stop using the app. The whole point of that feature is to get a quick recap of the news. It was useful. Now it’s unusable.

It was my understanding CBC agreed not to have Ads on publicly funded CBC Radio given the role CBC has as Canada’s national broadcaster. The CRTC had a key oversight role in this decision. Today I tuned into the hourly news on the CBC iPhone Ap and had to endure an Ad before getting to the news stream. Many years ago, CBC decided Ads were deemed necessary in order to support the then world of CBC TV news. Fine. I stopped watching CBC TV news about that same time. Please keep the radio / streaming audio side of CBC Ad free ... otherwise I won’t be using this Ap.

The updated app is mostly fairly good, but this is marred by a glaring and disappointing omission from the previous version – playlogs are missing for most shows. These used to be right in the app but now they aren’t. Either the internal staff or the external company who developed the update seem to be unable to resolve the issue. And the lack of a “developer response” to this review shows an unfortunate lack of accountability. I don’t think the hosts know playlists are gone either because they keep mentioning during their shows the ease of viewing playlogs… which are now unavailable.

This is for the developers. This app is the ONLY app out of the 60+ that I use that doesn’t know its being screen touched. Play, Pause and Stop are particularly non-responsive and finicky. Increase the size of the target area please. Otherwise lots of good programming.

I love listening to the CBC but the app consistently stops playback with no warning. Sometimes 2 or three times during an hour. There doesn’t seem to be any reason why.

Buggy/inconsistent app. I miss the ability to browse by genre.

I wanted to find a specific podcast and the app was easy to use. Looking forward to exploring the app more.