iPhone app grabs archived NPR shows
National News: Since December, users of the Apple iPhone could tune in Pittsburgh's WDUQ-FM, State College's WPSU-FM, Youngstown's WYSU-FM, the West Virginia Public Radio Network and hundreds of other National Public Radio affiliates from across the country using an application called "Public Radio Tuner."
Now the newly renamed Public Radio Player also allows users to find archived shows from NPR, including "Car Talk," "Fresh Air," "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and others.
The updated app can be downloaded for free from Apple's iTunes store.
More than 1.8 million people were already using the older version.
Unfortunately, early reviews of the 2.0 release are mixed at best. Some users are delighted by the new functionality, but others logging into the iTunes store call the player "almost unusably slow," prone to crashing and "full of bugs."
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I’ll have to download it to my iPhone once I’m done writing this. (I’m using it right now.) On a more localized level, WKBN & WYTV recently launched an app for their website MyValleySports.com that people can download for free to get Youngstown-related news for sports, and even has biographies for the two stations’ sports anchors! No app yet for MyValleyWeather.com (though all iPhones come with a generic weather app already on the phone, plus apps from WeatherBug, The Weather Channel, AccuWeather, etc… are also available to download) but it does have brief weather updates at the top of the MyValleySports.com app. Interesting that the Youngstown stations have an iPhone app available but not the Pittsburgh ones.
Joe Gerard (URL) - July 29, 2009 at 01:41 am