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WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston.WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston.
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WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston.WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston.

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  • 32030 Global Rank
  • 7929
    United States
  • 2.4 M Estimated Visits
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    54.25%
  • Direct
    29.76%
  • Social
    9.17%
  • Referrals
    6.13%
  • Mail
    0.67%
  • Display
    0.03%
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Links In Count 8,580
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United States Rank 3,641
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United States Page Views 82.8%
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  • 10 SDKs
  • 2.51 Avg. Rating
  • 240 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://itunes.apple.com/app/wbur/id379690847
  • App Support: http://www.wbur.org/contact
  • Genre: News
  • Bundle ID: org.wbur.WBUR
  • App Size: 60.9 M
  • Version: 4.0.8
  • Release Date: July 6th, 2010
  • Update Date: April 4th, 2019

Description:

High quality live stream of WBUR’s local, national and world news content, plus on-demand programs and podcasts like On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game, Radio Boston, Modern Love and Dear Sugar.

Highlights:

• Elegant, intuitive listening experience with all your favorite WBUR and NPR programs and podcasts
• 24/7 livestream of WBUR’s radio programming
• Save programs for later listening
• Never miss a moment of your favorite shows with a seamless rewind function to programs already in progress
• Simple mobile donation option
• Track listening history

The WBUR Listen app is free, so please consider supporting us with a donation. The app is funded by your generous contributions.

iOS Features, in detail

LISTEN (home)

• live stream
• schedule
• recently listened to programs
• on demand program list

NOW PLAYING (audio player)

• equalizer to navigate back to audio player
• buffer/progress bar
• scrub forward/back
• jump forward/back 15s
• play/pause
• sleep timer
• live stream
• details about program
• DVR go back to start of program
• Donate
• on demand stream
• details about program/episode
• save for later
• share
• on demand offline play
• details about program/episode
• save for later
• share
• donate
• browse the app while audio is playing

DVR functionality

• scrub or rewind back to start of currently airing program
• at end of program, shift user to currently airing program
• start current program if user resumes play after being paused for 4+ hours
• notify user if they scrub back to a point before the 6 hour buffer (for long programs)

DONATE

• donate heart on NOW PLAYING screen
• first time donation: show terms
• first time donation: allow user to change donation amount
• initiate text message to send donation
• future donation: one tap to text message donation
• manage donation amount in SETTINGS
• record of all submitted donations in HISTORY

ON DEMAND

• programs and podcasts
• Notifications for new episodes
• episode list (by date)
• episode details
• play episode & continue playing down list of episodes (up to 10 hrs)
• save episode
• more info > episode details

NOTIFICATIONS

• toggle on new episode notifications for a program or podcast

SAVE FOR LATER (on demand only)

• save on demand episodes bookmarks them to be listened to later
• list of saved episodes on saved screen
• play episode (if available)
• continue playing down the list of saved episodes (up to 10 hrs)
• download episode for offline play

OFFLINE PLAY

• download individual saved episodes for offline play
• SETTING to automatically download saved episodes downloads all future saved episodes automatically

HISTORY

• usage stats
• hours listened
• number of episodes saved
• number of times donated
• listening history
• historical list of all episodes listened to in chronological order by date
• on demand
• name of program + name of episode
• more info > episode details
• play episode (if available)
• live programming
• name of program + Live Stream
• visit program on demand page (if available)
• donation history
• historical list of all donations in chronological order by month
• summary of total amount donated by month
• on demand
• name of program + name of episode
• more info > episode details
• play episode (if available)
• live programming
• name of program + Live Stream
• visit program on demand page (if available)

SETTINGS

• automatically download toggle
• default donation amount
• Watch onboarding video
• About
• Contact Us

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JEP999

Jun 24, 2017

Most fragile app ever developed

While the content is high quality the app itself crashes constantly. The app is also the app that can't hand off from/to a Bluetooth device without stopping the stream. Better off using Tunein radio or some other alternative.

Mblagden

May 26, 2017

use something else

worst public radio app ever. constantly halts the live stream and wont restart... over high speed wifi and mobile. really frustrating. find some other way to listen

SoxYes04

Apr 10, 2017

Agree with 3/20/2017 review

Great when it works, but signal us interrupted its hard to re activate. The live/time delay feature is a great idea, but frustrating in actual use. Buttons have delayed response to touch screen and sometimes the only way to restart after a signal interruption is to power in and off. Great station, but I miss the seamless play of the old app.

pantenebre

Mar 20, 2017

Doesn't handle signal interruptions well

The content is of course excellent, but the app needs some work. When cell signal drops, the audio will pause and not resume. Pressing play/pause with no feedback on whether the app is frozen or buffering is frustrating. Transition from wifi to cell also has issues. Interface should inform the user what is going on. I suspect this is a rebrand of some underlying radio streaming tech that needs more funding! Hope WBUR can make it happen.

stefanoq

Mar 17, 2017

Delightful experience

Really one of the best mobile experiences I've had recently. Truly a delight!

BenW6

Feb 24, 2017

Great app

This app is a great way to have access to all the best NPR shows. It's up to date and easy to use.
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Wbur receives up to 0.53M pageviews per day, in countries such as India, Singapore, Pakistan, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada.

They are headquartered at Boston, MA, United States, and have 1 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. Wbur works with Advertising technology companies such as Openads/OpenX, DoubleClick.Net, Google Ad Partner Services, Google Adsense, Google Adsense for Search, Facebook Custom Audiences, Twitter Ads, Google Publisher Tag, AppNexus, Google AdSense Integrator, Google Floodlight Counter, Amazon Associates, Google Direct, Ads.txt, Less than 5 Ads.txt, Less than 5 DIRECT Ads.txt, JW Player Tracking, Google Adsense Asynchronous, Adform Reseller, ContextWeb Reseller, ORC International Reseller, FreeWheel Reseller, Google Reseller, IndexExchange Reseller, Media.net Reseller, OpenX Reseller, PubMatic Reseller, RubiconProject Reseller, SmartAdServer Reseller, SpotXChange Reseller, Telaria Reseller, Tremor Video Reseller, Yahoo Reseller, comScore Activation.
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Wbur receives up to 0.53M pageviews per day, in countries such as India, Singapore, Pakistan, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada.

They are headquartered at Boston, MA, United States, and have 1 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. Wbur works with Advertising technology companies such as Openads/OpenX, DoubleClick.Net, Google Ad Partner Services, Google Adsense, Google Adsense for Search, Facebook Custom Audiences, Twitter Ads, Google Publisher Tag, AppNexus, Google AdSense Integrator, Google Floodlight Counter, Amazon Associates, Google Direct, Ads.txt, Less than 5 Ads.txt, Less than 5 DIRECT Ads.txt, JW Player Tracking, Google Adsense Asynchronous, Adform Reseller, ContextWeb Reseller, ORC International Reseller, FreeWheel Reseller, Google Reseller, IndexExchange Reseller, Media.net Reseller, OpenX Reseller, PubMatic Reseller, RubiconProject Reseller, SmartAdServer Reseller, SpotXChange Reseller, Telaria Reseller, Tremor Video Reseller, Yahoo Reseller, comScore Activation.