With the NEW, updated GBH News App, everything you love about GBH 89.7 is available on the go! Get the latest news for Greater Boston and beyond, from the award-winning GBH News team and NPR. Listen to the GBH 89.7 live stream with one touch and hear your favorite programs from GBH and NPR.
New updates include:
-Listen to additional GBH Streams, including CRB Classical 99.5, Jazz 24/7, Celtic Sojourn Radio and CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station.
-Hear your favorite GBH programs on demand! Listen to Boston Public Radio, Under the Radar and more.
-Share the latest news stories on your social media platforms.
-Integrate the GBH News App with your car’s dashboard system with Apple Car Play.
-NEW-join the conversation with the new upstream feature! Send us a photo or short video if you see a news event you want to share with the GBH Newsroom.
-Become a new GBH Member and supporter.
-Use the Alarm feature to wake up to GBH News, or play your favorite live program any time during the day.
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Is GBH News free?
Yes, GBH News is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is GBH News legit?
⚠️ The GBH News app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
Note: this review is about THIS APP, not the radio station or its content. I love them. But I absolutely despise this app.
Literally for years I have been commenting to WGBH, emailing them, tweeting them, and leaving reviews about how much I love their news coverage, but how desperately bad this app is. It is to the point where I will switch to anything else when trying to use it unless I am stock still in a single location.
I love this radio station, I wish them nothing but positive things, but in every single instance I will use the app of their competitorstation. It buffers nicely, the streaming is smooth, I can back up to the beginning of any show or most of their programming through the day, their podcasts and back episodes are seamlessly integrated and easy to find an access. It is a joy to use, and everything that this app is not.
Guys. Seriously. It’s the 2020s, we should have an app that at least works well, even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of so many others. As I said, I love you, but I will almost never use this app unless I absolutely have to
What happened??
I really only need the app when I’m out, because at home I have the radio on. The app used to work pretty well (except that you could never back it up!). Well much bigger problems now, and I see that others have had the same complaint for quite a while now: the audio won’t play unless I’m listening over WiFi. I’ve switched to WBUR’s app.
Only works with wifi
So useless
A Waste of Time
The worst app ever in the history of iPhones.
App no longer downloads audio.
Anyone fixing this?
Streaming not working
I’m a GBH sustainer and there was a time when this app worked perfectly, but for several months now, I haven’t been able to get the live streaming to work, even with a brand new iPhone 13. The only reliable way I can now hear GBH is through radio.garden on my browser. Very disappointing. WBUR’s app works perfectly and GBH needs to catch up.
Great station 😊 UNRELIABLE app😕
Sadly, the app is one, long choking glitch. Wish it were fixed!!
They do not care about he listener
The app, or any app that provides GBH streaming including the NPR app will not work on cellular. I’ve tried to contact GBH for support but have not been replied to. A brief search on the web will show dozens of similar complaints. Unacceptable.
Doesn’t work with CarPlay in my 2022 GX
Also great to have the jazz 24/7 stream, love it, but why not include the gbh jazz decades stream? I am forced to use tunein still for these 2 streams in the car.
Doesn’t stream via AT&T cellular data
“There was a problem downloading the audio “ keeps coming up when I’m on AT&T cellular data. Works fine via WiFi/Verizon FIOS. I tried to report this to member services weeks ago but it’s still broken.
