WKAR Listen

Michigan State University

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About this app

Listen live and on-demand from WKAR Public Media at Michigan State University. Stream 90.5 FM for NPR News and classical music, plus a mix of jazz, folk, and Latinx. WKAR hosts join NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered to provide mid-Michigan news and weather alongside the national reporting. Stream NewsTalk for local news and a world view for Michigan’s capital region, featuring NPR, BBC World, Latinx arts and culture programming and WKAR news and sports. Classical and Jazz streams feature mostly music with quick news and weather updates. On-demand listening includes features and updates from the award-winning WKAR news team, plus select podcasts from WKAR and NPR. WKAR is mid-Michigan's premier source for spanish language news and music.

Ratings and reviews

The channels and content is great. I generally listen from 0400 - 0530. Music through the night is nice and the news is good. What is extremely frustrating about this application is the restarting and crashing. It will regularly just stop playing, i have to close it out and reopen it again to get it going. Also, when i leave the house and lose wifi it restarts every single time. For me this is during the news so i miss hearing the story as it restarts at its current segment. Happens twice a day.

Whoa! The WKAR app is now sucking battery life like crazy in the background, without even opening the app. It is using more battery life in the background than apps I'm using in the foreground. One star until they fix this. Otherwise... Good app, simple to get to live broadcasts. I would like to have more radio content - for example, your 24-hour jazz stream. I would also love to have access to your locally produced music programming, especially Michigan Matinee and MSU In Concert. Thank you.

WKAR provides the sort of music that is deeply moving, in a difficult day-to-day world. The Classics are that for a reason. Other broadcasts--NPR news, eg-- and other programming are excellent. A nice balance. And in the case of NPR reliable, trustworthy.

What's new

Performance enhancements