GBH News

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About this app

With the NEW, updated GBH News App, everything you love about GBH 89.7 is available on the go!

Get the latest news for Greater Boston and beyond, from the award-winning GBH News Team and NPR. Listen to the GBH 89.7 live stream with one touch and hear your favorite programs from GBH and NPR.

New updates include:
-Listen to additional GBH streams, including CRB Classical 99.5, Jazz 24/7, Celtic Sojourn Radio and CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station.
-Hear your favorite GBH programs on demand! Listen to Boston Public Radio, Under the Radar and more.
-Share the latest news stories on your social media platforms.
-NEW-join the conversation with the new upstream feature! Send us a photo or short video if you see a news event you want to share with the GBH Newsroom.
-Make a donation to GBH to support the programming that you love.
-Become a new GBH Member and supporter.
-Use the Alarm feature to wake up to GBH News, or play your favorite live program any time during the day.

Ratings and reviews

I tried to use this app to stay in sync with the radio while I'm out of my car to office or when a friend would call to say there's something to hear on GBH. The app plays ads more than anything else and is completely off the live broadcast. I lose connection or pause the app for a second and I'm back to square one, forced to listen to a list of ads and the program resents to beginning. In live news I basically lose "what is important". GBH's "what's important to you" is apparently the ads...

You may need to set this app to "never sleep" in your phone's settings, otherwise the stream may stop when your phone screen is turned off. Also, ads play way too often. First tuning in? Ad. Stream gets a little bit behind for some reason (maybe you took a call)? Ad. Switch from WiFi to cellular data? Ad. I'll update the review to 5 stars as soon as they fix this issue.

Playing an ad on launch is a bad user experience. I don't have that problem when I turn on the radio in my car. This happens incessantly if you're at the edge of WiFi range as the phone switches between 5g and WiFi. There's no scrubbing or rewind. It's a shame this app has been left to languish. The WBUR app is marginally better so I usually use that, but it has its own problems. A few common sense improvements to this GBH app would make it my preferred choice.

What's new

Performance enhancements