97.1 The Fan

Just installed, rebooted and still crashing and won’t open. On latest iOS release.

I swear it keeps getting worse… If you look at the app funny it buffers and then you have to go to commercial …. Why is this a thing… every time it buffers or loads you have to listen to a diamond cellar crappy add….

Sure would be nice to listen to a game on “the home of the crew”. If this was an OSU issue, it would have been fixed by now. But since it’s not, I guess I’ll just have to listen to some crappy ESPN content. Thanks a bunch !!

This app delivers an awful streaming service experience. Whenever you switch your phone from Wi-Fi to cellular or vice versa, the app immediately believes you need to hear an advertisement. These ads are annoying, repetitive and too long, while you wait and miss content. Oh, and even when you don’t switch between Wi-Fi and cellular, the app says I think you need another ad! Just random ad drops for no reason.

Worst app on the App Store? Probably. Issues already addressed by other users but… Switch from network to WiFi? Frozen, repeated commercials when finally resumes Leave wifi range and switch to network? Same as above. Press pause (well, now it’s a stop button)? Same as above. This usually requires additional step of swiping app closed and relaunching to even get to the commercials. No other streaming app has a problem continued service when switching data sources or pausing. Oh, almost forgot…connect to car stereo? Same as above. Put headphones (AirPods) in, seamlessly continues…take them out? Have to swipe closed and relaunch to get to work again.

I’m listening to the app… My cell service drops and the stream cuts out… Then when my phone gets back into service and the stream picks up, I have to listen to an ad again… every.single.time. And yet I still have to listen to ads during the commercial breaks. Please just get this corrected. It’s clearly been going on for years and years. I no longer live in central Ohio, so I have no choice but to use the app on my drive to work. Maybe someday I will return but for now goodbye my 97.1 friends.

GD worst app ever!!!! Advertisements will literally take over screen to the point where you have to delete app and then re download. And that is just one issue. No joke this happened. I used this app to listen to live radio. The app messed with my phone volume and I missed phone calls and text alerts. Even with volume all the way up.

They seriously need to fire whoever made this horrible app and fire whoever hired them. And if they have been fired they need to fire their replacement

I am a Buckeye who has lived far away from Columbus for years and I love keeping up with my team through The Fan radio shows. This app has always been terrible and seems to be getting worse! Constantly buffering, shutting off and then going to a commercial…over and over. I’ve reinstalled multiple times this week with no better luck. The shows are getting worse too — Bishop and FRIENDS — can you please shell out some money for some actual radio talent or athletes??? Bishop and his friends are neither. But that’s besides the point for this review. Please fix this!!!!!!

You have to close the advertisement before it starts playing content. Which means that every time you stop playing, like if you have an alarm, sometimes Twitter will stop it, you have to open up the app just to hit closed on the advert, especially painful if you are driving. I had people from Germany working with me for a month, I guess it’s always listening because it gave me an advertisement in German, which I had to look up what the German word for closed is for it to start playing the shows. I’m surprised I put up with it but I do like most of the shows of this station it’s just the app is garbage