Best app for listening to ads!
I gave this app a 1 because 0 is not an option. Launch the app, you get 3 minutes of ads. It inserts ads during broadcasts, especially sporting events. Make a phone call during an ad? It pauses the ad and resumes when you hang up.
Want to listen on your phone? If you turn off the screen on your phone, it stops playing. Apparently it wants you to stare at the banner ad while listening to zip recruiter and sports gambling ads.
Car play takes it to the next level. Want to listen while you’re going on a trip? If you start playing and then switch to your map, it stops playing most of the time. No other audio app does this. Then sometimes it shows it’s playing but no sound. Yes, audio is turned on the car stereo because everything else plays. Other times, you get a black screen. WJR should be ashamed this app bears their name.
Want to listen on your phone? If you turn off the screen on your phone, it stops playing. Apparently it wants you to stare at the banner ad while listening to zip recruiter and sports gambling ads.
Car play takes it to the next level. Want to listen while you’re going on a trip? If you start playing and then switch to your map, it stops playing most of the time. No other audio app does this. Then sometimes it shows it’s playing but no sound. Yes, audio is turned on the car stereo because everything else plays. Other times, you get a black screen. WJR should be ashamed this app bears their name.
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Just use iHeart Radio
What’s the point of this app if you can listen on iHeart Radio along with many other stations and podcasts? I wish I could listen to FULL past episodes of Mitch Albom on demand since it aires while I’m at work so I can never listen. I’d give this app 5 stars if it provided that.
Why doesn’t it just work
All the sudden, if I don’t keep the app up and running on my phone it closes and fades out. I have to keep my phone awake. This doesn’t happen with any other audio or podcast app. I know the audience is generally older, but you need some young folks in IT to make this app work better.
Updated app doesn’t work
Opening the app loads ads that you cannot cancel preventing from playing live streaming
App bait and switches you if you hit the play button
I’ve been using this app for years and about a year ago they turned the play button into a bait and switch add button to disreputable companies. If you have and iPhone delete this app now and ask siri to play wjr on apple music. I just deleted this app myself.
Deleted app
They took Dan Bongino off the air.
Bait and Switch
I downloaded this to listen to an MSU basketball game. It was instead some right wing nut job rambling on about Liz Cheney being a secret democrat. LOL. Deleted.
Big middle finger to Cumulus Media
You want to force people to inject the self I don’t need you or your content.
Volume Pause
We’ll, guess what the “volume to zero pause feature” does. TAKES YOU BACK TO A COMMERCIAL LOOP WHEN THE VOLUME IS TURNED BACK UP.
Worst radio app ever
The app randomly stops playing then you have to listen to ads for 30 seconds before you can listen to the program you are trying to listen to. Im sick of the ads you have to listen to ads already from the programs taking a break. Fix this crappy app.
Annoying ads
01/05/20
They have added a new ad to the broadcasts that bombard you with ads every time you start the app or after you re-start it when the app continuously crashes and the audio cuts out every 5 minutes just when you are about to hear something very important. When you restart the crashed app to try to hear what you missed, you get to hear a stupid ad instead. Nothing like being continually frustrated by this app. Why not just make it all ads because that’s all you are going to get anyways. Just get an AM radio. You won’t have to tolerate the pointless same ad over and over and over and over and over and over. Yep, that’s what it sounds like alright.
They have added a new ad to the broadcasts that bombard you with ads every time you start the app or after you re-start it when the app continuously crashes and the audio cuts out every 5 minutes just when you are about to hear something very important. When you restart the crashed app to try to hear what you missed, you get to hear a stupid ad instead. Nothing like being continually frustrated by this app. Why not just make it all ads because that’s all you are going to get anyways. Just get an AM radio. You won’t have to tolerate the pointless same ad over and over and over and over and over and over. Yep, that’s what it sounds like alright.
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Good most of time...
Tends to drop more than you’d expect. Delays too long when I move away from wifi requiring switch to cell data. Usually have to swipe it off and relaunch. Relaunch forces listen to sponsor ad. Over and over. Annoying when listening to an interview and miss important info trying to reestablish link. Seems a bit temperamental .
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Ads
I agree, I tune out wjr because of so many long commercial breaks. I can set my watch when the commercials will start. Frank is given just a few minutes to interview then has to break for traffic and weather, which is just an excuse for more commercials . I know radio is free for us, but so are the other stations. Stop being so greedy and give us back a good talk show. Remember JP!!!
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Does not work
Unable to stream live broadcast.
Don’t bother...
The team that wrote this useless, buggy app that does not work (it does not go into play mode) defeated the team that flooded it with ads by a large margin.
Too bad because I like the radio station. So now, it listen to music, instead.
Too bad because I like the radio station. So now, it listen to music, instead.
Opens does nothing at all.
The title says it all. Absolutely useless.
Can’t listen live, podcasts won’t play
I should not have downloaded the app after reading the reviews. I could not play live radio. When I searched and chose yesterday’s Paul W Smith show, it played for a few minutes and kept turning off. Needless to say, I’m deleting the app.
Always honest and up to the minute info.
There’s no better way to stay informed on everything Michigan. Everyday I learn something that really matters to my life. Can’t imagine a morning without Smith, Beckman and Rush. No spin, always a positive, proactive outlook. Listen every day.
WJR app
Difficult to open. Very annoying to have to watch a useless add before I can list ex n to radio.
Take the start up add away.
Take the start up add away.
Terrible, ads Like crazy
App will not play unless you leave it open (not in background). Then when you reopen you just watch the 30 second commercial again. Complete joke. Deleted.
Update - Dec 2019 - tried again hoping the app would have been improved. iPhone XS Max. App played 3 commercials then froze. What a joke. Others say same is common. WJR YOU ARE MORONS. Now I’ll never be back. I refuse to turn your station on because you app is a scam.
Update - Dec 2019 - tried again hoping the app would have been improved. iPhone XS Max. App played 3 commercials then froze. What a joke. Others say same is common. WJR YOU ARE MORONS. Now I’ll never be back. I refuse to turn your station on because you app is a scam.
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