WNYC

New York Public Radio

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About this app

Join the New York conversation wherever you are. The WNYC app lets you hear the best live and on-demand news, commentary, culture reporting, storytelling and music.

Listen to WNYC live to get the latest local news and conversation, national and global headlines from NPR, and the best of our public media partners. Save your favorite podcasts for offline listening. And if you're in the mood for music, listen to the New Sounds and New Standards streaming channels.

WNYC is a listener-supported public radio station. Your financial support helps make possible our programming, broadcasting and digital innovation.

We listened to your feedback and the reimagined WNYC app includes:

- A reliable, high quality live listening experience
- Easy access to our podcasts like Radiolab, On the Media, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Notes From America with Kai Wright, and NYC NOW
- The latest local and regional news from Gothamist
- Tune-in reminders you set for your favorite shows in our interactive program schedule
- A simple way to save audio to listen offline or when you have time
- Options to navigate the app in dark mode or light mode

Ratings and reviews

The updated app is awful. It has crashed four times in the last 20 minutes of this listening session. Since I updated it a couple days ago, that's been the average. It just stops playing the livestream and you have to hit play again. Very annoying when you're listening hands free! I'm reading your responses to other year-old reviews, touting the update. The previous version didn't crash nearly as much for me - maybe once every 2-3 hours. This new version is nearly unusable now though.

Great app... If only it didn't constantly freeze, crash, and generally work like craps. I've been a financial supporter of the station for over 15 years. Why do they do this to us???? Put out one malfunctioning app after another? 10/1/2019 Update: I was able to use it relatively problem free on my Samsung Galaxy 8. But now that I upgraded to a Samsung Note 10, it's pretty much useless again. Plays for about 20 seconds and stops, no matter what I do. Updated the app, still keeps stopping!

WOW! i didn't think it could get any worse. i was wrong. the update that arrived this morning is even more horrible than the last. i've been listening since 7am, it's now 8:53 and it has just stopped streaming...gone silent, 6 times since i opened it. KaKa. if i could take away the single star and leave it no stars i would. i never have this problem when i switch to wbur or when i listen through the npr app so why can't my local station create a decent app?

What's new

This release fixes a problem with audio playback. After upgrading, audio should continue playing even after the phone locks or the WNYC app is sent to the background.