# 97.5 The Fanatic — user reviews > 93 indexed App Store user reviews of 97.5 The Fanatic by Beasley Broadcast Group, rated 4.68/5 from 2,204 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/975-the-fanatic/id521810593/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/975-the-fanatic/id521810593.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,342 · 4★ 146 · 3★ 42 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 46 ## What do users think of 97.5 The Fanatic? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great Philly sports radio show - 👍 These folks know sports - 🚀 Away from Philly station - 👍 Always prime - 👍 Favorite sports radio station - 👍 From Utah - 👍 Sports News - 👍 Awesome **Cons** - 🐛 Long commercials - 🐛 Operation - 🐛 Endless commercials - 🐛 Not reliable - 🐛 Crashes too much - 🐛 Stops playing every 5-10 minutes horrible - 🐛 Bad - 🐛 App - 🐛 Not enough info - 🐛 Where are the different shows - 🐛 Country club - 🐛 Poor Performance - 🐛 Keeps crashing - 🐛 Ads Cut Off the Broadcast - 🐛 Constantly Disconnecting - 🐛 Keeps crashing ☹️ - 🐛 Too buggy - 🐛 Unreliable - 🐛 Mike Miss Gone - 🐛 Play button often doesn't work - 🐛 An app to listen to the radio doesn't let you listen to the radio - 🐛 Frustrating Playback Issues - 🐛 Terrible app - 🐛 Switches away from games. - 🐛 Needs Some Work - 🐛 Ads are non stop - 🐛 The worst - 🐛 Streaming like a sputtering d**k - 🐛 Unstable - 🐛 Good w some issues - 🐛 Awful streaming app - 🐛 Frustrating app - 🐛 Downloading needs work. - 🐛 They should call this the I Hate Steven Singer App - 🐛 Ads - 🐛 Garbage Ap - 🐛 App crashes when play live - 🐛 Cannot over-emphasize how bad this new app is - 🐛 Terrible....F. - 🐛 Just use iHeartradio instead - 🐛 Needs Update Badly - 🐛 Needs an update! - 🐛 Needs Improvement - 🐛 Weak **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes frequently - Playback issues and disconnections - Ads interrupting live broadcast - Compatibility issues with newer OS versions **Most requested features** - More on demand functionality - Sleep timer ## Newest reviews (10 of 93) ### 2/5 — Bad app *2026-04-16, version 7.8* Freezes constantly ### 4/5 — Miss Tyrone & Mikey Miss *2025-10-29, version 7.7* I prefer 97.5 I always have. But why do you keep John Kincade and his negative style( which fits the other station better) over Tyrone Johnson and Mikey Miss ??? ### 2/5 — App *2024-08-27, version 7.2* Every time I listen the app goes off! Get rid of Johnson!! ### 3/5 — Not enough info *2024-08-13, version 7.2* The moderators are on for only about 4 hrs per day, yet many don’t seem to be up on current events, and often don’t provide much in the way of insights or specifics. Then, go off half cocked based on a lack of real facts, or technical understanding of the specifics. It’s basically laziness and no interest in becoming fully knowledgeable. ### 2/5 — Where are the different shows *2024-08-13* Why are you not giving people the option to listen to their favorite shows like before? I wanted to listen to Mike Missenali return. ### 3/5 — Country club *2024-07-25, version 7.2* This station needs more melanin talking about primarily melanated players. Or at least some people who sound like they’re legitimately from Philadelphia. I’d reach out to TOP BILLIN. No one breaks down football better. The station has become the mens golf lounge at the cricket club. At what point do we break athletes down to shucking and jiving. Get some frigging seasoning on this station. ### 1/5 — Poor Performance *2024-07-12, version 7.2* App works less than 50% of the time. Devs should be ashamed on connection speed, download content reliability and just overall performance. An intern at Temple could do better. ### 5/5 — Sports News *2024-07-08* I like 97.5 over the other local station…. I used to love it, but my favorite personalities are gone….Bruno & Mayes, Shaun Brace, Mickey Miss, Farrzetta & Thomas, DeVon Gibbons, & Phil from Mt Airy ### 5/5 — Away from Philly station *2024-07-07, version 7.1* My go to for all Philly sports news and events! Every show is entertaining informative and accurate! The app also offers a store to make purchases and all kinds of contests happen all the time! ### 5/5 — Always prime *2024-07-06, version 7.1* I just love sylvanna. Plain and simple ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-02-10, version 7.8* An ad to start each time so I can then listen to the ads every 10 minutes on the show and if I don’t want to listen to them and put on music and go back I then have to listen to another ad. ### 1/5 — Long commercials *2025-10-23, version 7.7* All of sudden started cutting off from content and playing long commercials and sneaking them in during a commercial break have to stop and restart to get back to live radio ### 1/5 — Operation *2025-10-17, version 7.7* The sound stops playing if you exit the app. ### 1/5 — Sports News *2025-09-26, version 7.7* I like 97.5 over the other local station…. I used to love it, but my favorite personalities are gone….Bruno & Mayes, Shaun Brace, Mickey Miss, Farrzetta & Thomas, DeVon Gibbons, Phil from Mt Airy & Especially Micky Miss!!!!! ### 1/5 — It used to be good *2025-02-07, version 7.5* This app just shuts down all the time for no apparent reason or purpose. 75% of the time the app will launch but won’t stream. Very disappointed ### 1/5 — Endless commercials *2024-12-17, version 7.2* This app is horrible for attempting to listen to 97.5. Every time I try to use it, a continuous stream of 5-6 commercials play before any AirPlay. ### 1/5 — Not reliable *2024-12-14, version 7.2* Awful. Makes you have to listen to same commercial twice even if they’re already during a live on-air show outside of the radio commercial break. Can’t lower volume all the way down with out it stopping and having to reload and listen to the two commercials again. Atrocious ### 1/5 — Crashes too much *2024-09-27, version 7.2* 🤷‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Stops playing every 5-10 minutes horrible *2024-09-17, version 7.2* This app is the worst. Stops playing, freezes up only for you to have to restart the app and listen to commercials AGAIN before it pics back up ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-08-28, version 7.2* Goes out stops playing. Have to close app and restart to keep listening ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Philly sports radio show *2025-12-03, version 7.7* Ray dunne great producer. Bring back Mike again tho ### 5/5 — These folks know sports *2025-10-29, version 7.7* Love the afternoon shows. Unfiltered is number 1! ### 5/5 — 97.5 *2025-10-20, version 7.7* I love the shows but wish the app made every show available on demand like Wip does ### 5/5 — Go Birds *2025-09-27, version 7.7* Duh of course it’s 5 stars ### 5/5 — Ex Pat *2025-01-30, version 7.5* Born and raised in Philly; now live in North Carolina. But, in you heart, I will always be a Philly guy. I listen to this station via the net to hear about Philly sports. I enjoy the wit and wisdom of the journalists and the call in listeners. ### 5/5 — Favorite sports radio station *2024-12-13, version 7.2* Very much enjoy listening to theses guys talk Philly sports,only thing that’s missing is a appearance from the Philly sports man (Me) keep up the great work ### 5/5 — Comments *2024-10-28, version 7.2* The 5 stars are ONLY because Mike is back. ### 5/5 — Mike Miss *2024-09-06, version 7.2* So good to listen to Mikey Miss on 97.5 again. I’m back! ### 5/5 — Mike Missanelli Show *2024-08-12, version 7.2* Thank you for bringing back Mikey Miss 10-2!! ### 5/5 — From Utah *2024-07-10, version 7.2* Listen everyday from Utah. Grew up in pennsauken , only station I trust to get the real Philly sports update, and rumors. I call almost every Tuesday and Thursday Bill --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*