# NewsRadio 102.9 KARN — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of NewsRadio 102.9 KARN by Cumulus Media, rated 3.20/5 from 6 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/newsradio-1029-karn/id383058239/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/newsradio-1029-karn/id383058239.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (7 of 27) ### 1/5 — Give us Shoutcast! *2012-03-02* Have to reinstall to make work. Background stream uses Safari so you can't use it while surfing the web. Just give us a Shoutcast stream and be done!!! It's free and it works! ### 1/5 — No longer works *2012-02-01* Hasn't worked in six months. Am deleting and looking for a different app. ### 1/5 — Pkimer *2011-10-07, version 2.1.1* Are they ever going to fix this? Hasn't worked in forever. ### 1/5 — Nothing *2011-09-06, version 2.1.1* Doesn't work at all. ### 1/5 — KARN *2011-05-19* Worked one day, then quit for the last month. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work... *2011-01-05, version 2.1.1* This app hasn't worked in months and months. What irks me is that the station keeps promoting it incessantly on the air. Fix it please! ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2010-12-13, version 2.1.1* After the last upgrade this app stopped working. If you fix that, add a volume control. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Commercial radio *2025-06-18* This is the absolute worst radio app. You can listen to this for an hour and hear 10 min of content (cut off constantly) and 50 min of commercials. Mostly the same commercials over and over. I guess they don’t care? WORST APP! ### 1/5 — Hangs and crashes constantly *2020-11-19* It seems like after the last big fix it is even worse ### 1/5 — David *2020-08-27, version 6.12.0* App will not start when pushing the play button. ### 1/5 — iPad won't work *2020-06-02* Won't work on iPad. Used to but not anymore. Please fix. ### 1/5 — Crashes, hangs, constant pop-ups and redirects *2015-06-30* Simply awful. It can't even load the ads properly, and they will hang... And hang.., then the app crashes. It's hard to understand why this app's creators can't seem to make something work, when there are so, so many examples of radio apps that do. Sad and frustrating experience. ### 1/5 — Irritating advertising *2014-08-29* This is the ONLY radio app that I know of that semi-regularly takes time out to show trashy VIDEO ads!! I recommend 103.7 "the buzz" to avoid stupid video ads. ### 1/5 — So annoying!! *2013-12-09* In the morning traffic and weather is on the 9s BUT as soon as it's 7:49 or any other 9 commercials come on for 4-5 minuets soooo you miss it!! Because of this the app is useless to me and I will be deleting it. ### 1/5 — Crap! *2012-10-31, version 2.5.5* It's a good thing this app is free because it is a piece if crap. 99.9% of the time it gives an "Audio Error." ### 1/5 — Dead… not working, please quit promoting on the air!!! *2012-04-04* This app doesn't work. It launches, then shows text that says it is looking for station data, that changes to "Station KARN News Radio data loaded", but then just hangs there --- nothing. PLEASE - the app is broken, STOP PROMOTING IT!!!! ### 1/5 — Don't work *2012-03-18, version 2.1.1* Used to enjoy this app now it doesn't work...wth! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — They finally fixed it!! *2012-08-10* I don't know yet if it works in all Internet connection choices, but at least they fixed it to stop crashing. Now it looks like they want us to switch to iHeart Radio app. I might try it to see which I like best. ### 5/5 — Works! *2012-04-04* AirKast had an issue that broke this and ALL their iPhone stream apps. Easily fixed by deleting and reinstalling! ### 5/5 — Works after *2012-03-20* I had to uninstall and then re-download and install in order to get this working again. That should be noted as a possible issue in the description. ### 5/5 — Great app for a great station *2010-09-12* Thank you for creating this app. It's fantastic. ### 5/5 — Great app *2010-08-30* I have been waiting a long time for this app. Thanks ### 4/5 — Works now *2012-02-22* Tried to DL from app store didn't work. Went to the radio website clicked on link to DL now works go figure :) ### 4/5 — Background listening *2011-07-23* The app works great, except that I would like it to play in the background so I can use other apps while listening. ### 3/5 — Needs an update!!! *2011-11-01* Worked like a million bucks until I upgraded to iOS5. Now only "loads data" then bricks itself. Please fix!! ### 2/5 — App crashing *2019-05-15* App seems to be crashing a lot with iPhone 5. ### 2/5 — App Crashes A LOT *2019-03-04* The app was working fine until a few weeks ago. Now it crashes a lot. Really annoying when you’re in the shower and it quits right as soon as you get under the water. Please fix it. Thank you. --- *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 2026-06-01.*