WBAL NewsRadio User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience22.0% of reviews
Neutral6.1% of reviews
Negative experience72.0% of reviews

~ Based on 82 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is WBAL NewsRadio Safe?

WBAL NewsRadio has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for WBAL NewsRadio is 64/100.

This assessment is based on 62 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.1/5.

Safety Analysis

43.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
21.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
35.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 62 App Store ratings for WBAL NewsRadio.

Is WBAL NewsRadio Legit?

WBAL NewsRadio appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for WBAL NewsRadio is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Poor app

App is buggy, plays the same ad over and over again.

Good content

I’m using this app for the content, which is great. The app is horrible. The approach to ads could’ve been better developed by a kid. Extremely frustrating to use and impossible while on the go.

Ads play every 2 seconds.

Accidentally close the app? Hit with an ad. Connect to a different Bluetooth device? Ad. The worst part is it’s the same one ad over and over. Content is good but this app was designed by a child.

Not Always “Breaking” News

I don’t need alerts talking about Black Friday sales. I also don’t need editorializing when it comes to politics. Just give the news not your opinion

Great idea poorly executed

I was a regular listener on the radio, so I was very happy to get the app. It is so frustrating to use! The constant advertisements just to sign in are just annoying. Every time you login you have to listen to the same ad. Not only do you have to listen to an ad, but then another ad will pop up, which doesn’t have any audio but freezes you out of the podcast. Poorly executed.
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Annoying ads

The constant ads at the beginning and then when it’s finally finished and I turn my screen off, the app stops and resets with another annoying law group ad. I’m done!

Buggy App

I’m going to lose it if I hear a Kronberger advertisement one more time while using the App.

Ads

Irritated I have to listen to the same ad every time I play the listen live or if stop and play again moments later. There are ads that play in between segment breaks. Is it really necessary? Or play a different ad it’s the same ad it haunts me in my sleep.

New update is unstable

The new update is just horrible. You have to listen to 15sec add, no skipping.
When I get a text or any type of interruption the app goes back to the ad. I listened to the app 5x in 10 mins.
The new section is almost worthless. Not organized, old article or events that has been done. And the endless pop adds.
The old joke radio app was WCBM, now it is this app.
Very unstable, very frustrating. You are driving me to Sirus.
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Pop up Ads

Ads just keep popping up nonstop. The app is useless.

Ad - Pop Ins

App now plays Ad’s
You attempt to read a clip on a news article, within a few moments an Ad pops up.

Cant finish the reading the article, even if you allow the Ad to play out.
Once you clear it, the same Ad pops back in again.

I get Ad’s are needed to help pay for the services, but it should clear after the ad has played

Tv has commercials, but the commercials will eventually end
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Blackouts

Screen keeps blacking out making it difficult to read news articles. Used to be an excellent site for local news.

Adding pop up ads a problem

Ads now pop up on every article multiple times, making the content unreadable.

Pop up adds. Are you kidding me?

I have used the app for years and loved it. I stream it almost all day. A couple times a day I will read the news stories. Now however, there are pop up adds and adds for games that have made it virtually impossible to read even a paragraph of a story. If it keeps up I’m deleting the app. It’s unbareable.
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Generally a good app, but could be improved

The app is generally pretty good. It could be better if it reformatted when i turn my iPad to landscape format instead of portrait. Having the ability to personalize the default zip code for the weather forecast would be good improvements for those of us that live in the suburbs.

Pop up Add

I have had this app for years on my phone and always enjoyed reading the Baltimore news but just in the last 2 weeks the pop up ads will not stop. Every time I open a story and advance the verbiage an ad for a game comes on and even if it plays to the entirety it will not stop coming back up. I even deleted the app and downloaded it again but that did not work. Is there a solution for this?
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Pop up purgatory

This was once a straightforward app. But recently pop up ads are out of control. If there is no way to prevent them I will delete the app.

Streaming Orioles Games Never Works

Why even say you offer streaming when it never works? It’s sad that such a simple technology (geolocation) can’t be applied correctly. I am in Washington DC so I am surrounded by eligible listening areas, however the app always tells me I am not. What a waste.

Not a bad app with a few recent glitches.

I’ve used this app for years and for the most part it gets the job done. I’ve noticed over that last week for whatever reason the app now plays an intro clip when connecting to the stream which sometimes overlaps with the stream and causes it to stop. Also, now whenever I try to mute the app temporarily using the app’s mute button, or turn down your volume all the way the stream disconnects. I don’t know if this was part of a recent update but it is frustrating.
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Not reliable

Streaming cuts out while driving. Presumably when the phone moves from cell to cell.