“Tooooooooo many commercials — I hear more commercials than music”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 266 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★92,306 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
52 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
YOUR FAVORITE LISTENING IN ONE FREE APP Your stations, teams, music and podcasts are free on the Audacy app. SPORTS — The most sports talk anywhere and live play-by-play and game-analysis for many NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL teams.* NEWS — Local news radio plus national coverage from CBS News, Fox News and more.
MUSIC — Popular radio stations and hosts you know and love, plus on demand stations programmed by music lovers.
PODCASTS — All your favorite podcasts plus millions more and exclusive Audacy Originals.
LISTEN YOUR WAY
> Rewind your sports and news stations to the beginning, or find the topics that matter most to you with chapters.
> Exclusive extras you won’t hear on the radio.
ONE PLACE FOR ALL YOUR FAVES
> Save all the listening you love in My Audio.
> Tap to access all your stations, teams, shows and podcasts fast.
> Keep clips and episodes for listening later.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2026.10.01 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.10.01, updated 2026-10-01.
What we measured
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Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (5.6% of 266 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too Many Commercials — This app inserts way too many commercials compares to the actual radio broadcast. This should be considered an app to hear commercials with a sprinkling of music in between more commercials.”
“Why? — You could use this app or you could just turn your radio on. I’m currently listening to the 15th ad in a row after tuning in to my local radio station. Now I’m pretty sure they’re not playing that many ads on the air. So if you…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.10.01.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.