WBEZ

- July 28, 2016

Everyone 10+

Entertainment

( 262)

Description

The WBEZ app brings you radio anytime, anywhere – on your terms. With over 200,000 shows, stories and podcasts available at the tap of a finger, the best audio news and storytelling is ready and waiting whether you’re on the bus, at work or on the run. Plus you’ll never miss a minute when you rewind the radio to go back in time and listen to shows that just aired with our revolutionary rePlayer.

Reviews

3.1

262 total

5 89

4 28

3 27

2 54

1 64

Sarah Eng

Nice design, poor performance. Every time I use this app, either to livestream or replay, playback stops for no reason. Will continue to use Stitcher instead, though I will give this another shot if improvements are made.

Katy Bridgers

Keeps stopping I've used this app a for a while as my car's radio won't pick up signal. Unfortunately, after my phone (nexus 6P), updated to Android 7, it now stops every few minutes just randomly. I'm extremely disappointed that it's no longer working as well... I just want my WBEZ!

Gabriel Winke

Makes my new Samsung 7S crash every time. I just want my WBEZ!!!

Dan Stracco

Disappointing Constantly stops and restarts. Good design, poor execution.

Douglas Shelton

Great app I listen to your station on the radio everyday this app just makes listening easier for when I'm not driving

Daniel Fogel

Disappointed member This app is awful both in IOS and Android. It loads slowly, connects sporadically,and stops playing without explanation. As a long time BEZ member, I expect a reliable app do I can stay informed. Disappointed.

User reviews

Sarah Eng September 10, 2016

Katy Bridgers September 23, 2016

Gabriel Winke September 20, 2016

Makes my new Samsung 7S crash every time. I just want my WBEZ!!!

Dan Stracco September 26, 2016

Disappointing Constantly stops and restarts. Good design, poor execution.

Douglas Shelton September 19, 2016

Great app I listen to your station on the radio everyday this app just makes listening easier for when I'm not driving

Daniel Fogel July 5, 2016

George Azevedo August 4, 2016

Stop streaming every 5 or 10 seconds Stops every 10 seconds. My phone exchange is Samsung Note 5. This app needs more work.

Vinh Dang July 28, 2016

Podcast player could improved For playing podcasts, it would be great if the app bookmark where I left off instead of me having to find the spot using those 10 and 30 secs movers.

Richard Buchler July 16, 2016

Frustrating The app loads fine, but the stream starts and stops in fits. Too bad, I live within sight of their studio and I can't get a radio signal, nor a live stream.

Maddie Sack May 25, 2016

Just needs some design fixing! I love the idea for this app; it just needs some updating. It only opens half the time and stops frequently, but when it works I am very happy with it! I know this is the beta version so I am willing to be patient, but I hope it gets fixed sooner rather than later.

Chicago Public Media, Inc. May 25, 2016

We have a much more solid version with a few feature enhancements coming out by early July. Hopefully this will address your issues.

Tim Winter May 25, 2016

Doesn't load. Running Marshmallow on a Nexus 5X it just sits on opening screen trying to load. Have an old Moto Ultra running Kit Kat and it works fine. Actually I love the app. Hope it comes online soon again for MM.

Chicago Public Media, Inc. May 25, 2016

Tim, we had a spate of these reports in the last few days and are actively working on it. Prior to this issue, was the App functioning well for you? or did it always have loading issues?

Rado Rado May 25, 2016

Does not work! Never actually launched. It will not load! WBEZ give us an app that works and needs no permissions... very disappointed

Chicago Public Media, Inc. May 25, 2016

We had a spate of these reports in the last few days and are actively working on it. Very sorry for the inconvenience. I was able to reproduce this and went into Settings > Apps > WBEZ and cleared the data and force quit it and then it opened. That is still unacceptable and we're prioritizing a fix for it now.

Orion Artis April 21, 2016

Start, stop, switch App live stream disconnects and/or changes content ar will

Chicago Public Media, Inc. May 25, 2016

Sorry for the trouble. We have a much more solid version with a few feature enhancements coming out by early July. Hopefully this will address your issues.

Micah Pollak May 26, 2016

Fantastic! Listen to WBEZ live as well as replay earlier programs and discover new shows! Slick interface that looks nice and works well!

Chicago Public Media, Inc. May 25, 2016

Don Zouras August 24, 2016

Intrusive Why sides a radio streaming app need access to my call information?

Nate Smith July 11, 2016

Loads fine for me. My only complaint would be the small segment about the online sponsors.

Max Trefonides May 25, 2016

Five Million Dollars. Five. Million. Dollars.

AandJ Silverman June 5, 2016

Hugely improved over the past year

Debi Brown January 7, 2016

Seldom works I do not have a radio, so I thought the WBEZ stream would be fine. But this app seldom works, you press play and nothing happens, or there is no arrow to press. Works much better on my ipad.

Daniel Toot December 7, 2015

Still no streaming Got the app despite the bad reviews, figuring they've fixed the issue. They haven't. No live streaming radio for me...

Clay Goodpasture April 4, 2016

I love you WBEZ but this App is worthless Constantly doesn't start the stream without trying 2 or 3 times and then once it does play, it turns itself off every 10 mins. GOD I WISH THIS APP STREAMED WITHOUT STOPPING!

Chicago Public Media, Inc. May 25, 2016

Sorry for the trouble. We have a much more solid version with a few feature enhancements coming out by early July. Hopefully this will address your issues.

Neil Flaherty November 6, 2015

Was lovin it! Worked great for about two weeks but stopped updating shows this past Sunday. Great to catch up on market place and other shows could not catch live. Great app, poor execution.

George Foster December 10, 2015

App doesn't work anymore I can no longer listen to live broadcasts. When is this going to be fixed? Please wbez please.

Brooks Gerlach January 2, 2016

Still a BOTHER: Starts,cuts out; starts,cuts out . . .Is this the best they can do? Other NPR stations can do app broadcasts, why can't 'BEZ?

Nicole Bahena March 17, 2016

Love the idea of this app Streaming often doesn't work. It'll start and stop then restart the same story again.

Mike Rammer November 15, 2015

Wouldn't close or stay closed. Kept popping up notification that stream was paused.

Erik K December 21, 2015

Works great Am using right now and have no issues with streaming. Nice and easy UI.

Matt Howard April 12, 2016

Great for travel I love that I can stream my favorite station while traveling outside of the area. It has worked great for me.

mrente1 February 11, 2016

Does not work! Does not work!

Bruce Tyler December 14, 2015

Does not work Seems like a great idea but it doesn't do anything.

Carrie Bradley March 10, 2016

Great access to incredible radio Love the content

Michael Hurd September 3, 2015

Stopped working Previous version worked fine. Now I the never-ending circle of wait. Ah. Just need to wait 5 or 10 minutes for it to start

Molly Welty Hedrick September 25, 2015

Please app streaming Please please please fix app from pausing when you put the phone away. It stops streaming every 5min or so...... So sad.....

Michael Hilmer October 27, 2015

Would be great If the stream actually worked. As far as I can tell, it never stops buffering.

John Albers September 16, 2015

Live streaming doesn't work New phone + new app = live streaming doesn't work.

Max Drickey October 11, 2015

Just takes forever The audio fidelity is great, assuming you have the patience to wait around for the livestream to load.

Chris Sandys September 8, 2015

I love the new version This latest works so much better. Two thumbs up. Thanks WBEZ.

Taylor Childers November 3, 2015

Buggy... And in the last few days, no streaming.

Jason Cook September 2, 2015

Great update

Jason Hoellwarth February 6, 2015

Where are the recorded podcasts The new design is much more fluid and better interface. I like that a lot. However the biggest reason I used this app was to listen to podcasts of old shows and the archives. Now I have to only listen to what today's programming is. I cannot find a way to choose a show that I want to listen to and then listen to multiple broadcasts from that show. That is the biggest problem at this time

What's New

The WBEZ app brings you radio anytime, anywhere – on your terms. With over 170,000 shows, stories and podcasts available at the tap of a finger, the entire world of public radio is ready and waiting whether you’re on the bus, at work or on the run. Plus you’ll never miss a minute when you rewind the radio to go back in time and listen to shows that just aired with our revolutionary rePlayer.