WMAL
105.9 WMAL - Making Sense of the News
Total ratings
4.68
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Fantastic programming lineup
- Great news station and personalities
- Love the content of WMAL
Cons
- Excessive ads that interrupt the stream
- App crashes and stops frequently
- No background playback functionality
- Visual ads that are dangerous while driving
- Repeated ads and delays in content delivery
Most mentioned
- Too many ads
- App frequently crashes or stops
- Issues with background playback
- Frustrating ad interruptions
- Poor app performance and instability
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1.90
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-19 |  | | This app is complete garbage. It stops working out of nowhere and CONSTANTLY has "play source error" messages. Hands down, 100%, the absolute worst app I've ever seen in my life. It constantly cuts out and stop playing. When it starts working again, you have to listen to the same embedded commercials over and over again. if somebody is reading these reviews, can you please fix this horrible app! |
| 2024-08-28 |  | | I have a serious love/hate relationship with this app. I like the programming from morning to night, but this app makes me say bad words. A lot! Every single time there’s the slightest interruption to the stream the show cuts out and it’s ad central! Listen to app in car, disconnect from Bluetooth, the show is interrupted by repetitive ads. Lose cell data signal for a second, ad central! Smack in the middle of an interview it does this. I keep hoping for an update. Fix it!!! Seems worse on droid |
| 2024-07-03 |  | | Fantastic lineup! This is where I go for the truth! The only issue with app is the ad that appears at the beginning cuts off the audio until I hit the x at top right. Not an issue unless I'm using "hands free" in my car. Don't want to miss a thing! I Love America! |
| 2024-06-03 |  | | This app sucks. It plays ads before you can hear the station which is fine, I get it, but it only plays for 5 to 10 minutes and it shuts down. Then you have to watch two more ads before you can listen again. That is above and beyond all the commercials the station plays. |
| 2024-05-23 |  | | Your app stops playing in the background and there is no settings option to change this. I started listening to you stream via Audials play, but they insert commercials in the wrong spots over your stream causing me to miss information. Could you please fix/upgrade your app so that it does not stop and will play in the background with the screen locked. I already checked my android phone settings and I can't fix it their either. Great news station and personalities though, keep up the great work |
| 2024-04-02 |  | | TOO many ads, and invoked at EVERY interruption causing streaming to stop, be it changing BT speakers, going from cell service to WiFi, and seems like every hour. One has to reply or close the ad before streaming resumes. This condition got really bad after 1st of 2024. Looking for another way or change who i listen to. Too bad! |
| 2024-03-18 |  | | I understand ads. But, I don't understand the automatic refresh that happens, usually during breaking news? You then manually refresh to get back to the breaking news, only to listen to ads again and not one or two.. like 5 or 6 repetitive ads. I'll still listen from PA using this app because your lineup from 9am to 9pm is amazing, but the app, it's awful. |
| 2024-03-11 |  | | Nothing but ads. I tried pausing to skip the ads and the ads just started up from when I paused. It was so bad that the radio show finally came back and gave a time check. It was 20 minutes earlier than the actual time. The app delayed the show to make me listen to the ads. Unistalled once and for all! No more Cumulas apps...ever! |
| 2023-07-13 |  | | This is a Radio app I use in a vehicle. The app has VISUAL ads that interrupt the station 1) you have to have the ad showing or it interrupts the radio 2) you have to look AND take your hand of the wheel to close the damned ads. THE ads do NOT auto timeout and there is no way I can see to turn OFF visual ads. Stupid AND dangerous! |
| 2023-06-20 |  | | Update - It's now the following year and I downloaded this app again. I don't know how it's possible, but it's even WORSE than last year! Literally, every couple of minutes it replays all the terrible ads I had to sit through a couple of minutes ago! This is such an awesome station, but the app is useless. Original - Love this station, but it needs to work on this app. Stops to buffer constantly even on full strength WiFi. And the odd repetition of some ads and even programming, gets tiresome. |
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