GBH News

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

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.

So useless

The worst app ever in the history of iPhones.

Anyone fixing this?

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.

Sadly, the app is one, long choking glitch. Wish it were fixed!!

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.

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.

“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.