Talk Stream 12+

I have been using Talk Stream Live for several months now. I started tuning in due to a good word from Brian Sussman, KSFO’s morning man. I enjoy being able to tune in to hear shows I may have missed due to its unavailability on other stations. The only problem I have with Talk Stream is that it often breaks into the thought of a host and places a commercial there. That commercial may even play 3-4 times in a row. I was following a great story last night and as soon as the host was about to give us the punchline the app preceded to cut off and go to commercial. There are other times when commercials will stop and start continuously. Otherwise the app gets 5 stars from me!

Talk Stream has been a very useful app with very good access to talk radio personalities in most major markets which enables listening to personalities during their live broadcast and outside of their live broadcasts. If you live in a market where a radio station does not carry your desired radio personality live, you can find a market in which it is broadcast live so that you can call in and be on topic. It is a great way of listening to many personalities outside of their normal broadcast times when it is tape-delayed in other markets that talk stream carries the broadcast of.
A problem: recently after an app crash, now both Ben Shapiro and Michael Medved crash the app every time I select those personalities. This is very frustrating because I can no longer access their broadcasts from Talk Stream. Even after deleting the app from my device and reinstalling it, those personalities still crash the app when launched.
If this is related to some database error in the programming then Talk Stream could enable some form of reset in the settings for the app that would restore functionality of these broadcasts being selected successfully. As conservatives, we are always suspicious, unfortunately, that some disgruntled coder has decided to break access to certain content. I hope this is not the case.

Great app but for some ads, and I’m saying this so the designers will fix this. I get that some stations have an initial ad. (And if possible I just switch to another town to avoid the ad.) The problem happens when you already heard the ad but the app plays it again when you switch from your car to the phone or vice versa or get a phone call then come back from the call and have to listen to another ad again. Extremely annoying and you’re missing whatever you were hearing. Fix this. Then you’ll get five stars.

It just happened again. It walked into my house so I automatically switch from 4G to WiFi and the annoying ad started annoying me again, again right in the middle of my radio show. Do something! (If needed, I was listening to Aaron Klein Show.)

Since I wrote the above the problem has gotten worse, especially today 15 May 2020. It now switches to the ad at any time, not just when you trigger it as described above. Thus, removing another star, now down to three. I’ll say this: it appears the Twitter app may be exacerbating the problem. My use of that app triggers many more ads. So tired of hearing from Jay Farner of Rocket Mortgage.