Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football
Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football is a sports radio streaming app for iOS that provides live audio broadcasts of professional and college games.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the geographic barrier for sports fans who cannot watch their preferred teams on local television, allowing them to follow games via audio streams.
For Sports fans seeking live audio coverage of professional and college football games.
What does it look like?
Key features
Audio broadcast of professional and college football games accessible via mobile device. Revenue link: Drives daily active usage during game windows, expanding ad-inventory.
In-app calendar tracking live game times to facilitate listening. Revenue link: Increases session frequency by notifying users of live events, serving as a retention lever.
Audio continues to stream while the user navigates to other applications. Revenue link: Extends session duration by allowing multitasking, expanding ad-inventory.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free, ad-supported utility with no visible subscription or premium tier.
Velocity
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The app has been inactive for 3,626 days, showing no signs of development or maintenance for nearly a decade. With only a single minor release recorded in the provided history, there is no evidence of ongoing support or feature updates. The project appears to be abandoned.
Who built it?
MAJ Apps and Games
12 apps tracked · Sports
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans frustrated. Users appreciate free access to live radio broadcasts allows fans to follow out-of-market teams without subscription costs and background audio support enables users to multitask while listening to live sports game broadcasts, but report frequent application crashes upon launch or during live streams prevent consistent access to game audio.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Free access to live radio broadcasts allows fans to follow out-of-market teams without subscription costs
- Background audio support enables users to multitask while listening to live sports game broadcasts
- Frequent application crashes upon launch or during live streams prevent consistent access to game audio
50 of 50 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football
How's the Sports market?
Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football occupies the free sports utility space with a 1.9-star rating across 22 reviews. The absence of updates since 2016 signals a lack of competitive investment in a category where live-event reliability is the primary value driver.
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Key takeaways for Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football
Where is it heading?
The sports radio utility market is shifting toward high-reliability, subscription-based services that offer consistent, high-fidelity streams. Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football remains in a state of terminal decline, as its failure to address technical instability and ad-driven churn makes it increasingly irrelevant to modern sports fans.
- The lack of updates since 2016 means the app is technically obsolete, leading to frequent crashes that prevent users from accessing live audio.
- Aggressive, intrusive advertising redirects users to the app store, which compounds the frustration of an already unstable listening experience.
The SWOT
- Free access to live radio broadcasts allows fans to follow out-of-market teams without subscription costs
- Implementing a paid tier to remove intrusive advertisements would address the primary user request for an improved listening experience
Next best moves
Sunset the current ad-supported model because the 1.9-star rating indicates the ad-load is destroying the product's core utility → stabilize brand reputation
The counter-intuitive read
The app's primary value is not its content…
Read the full takeBottom line
Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football is a legacy utility that has failed to maintain its core functionality, and the current ad-heavy experience is actively eroding its remaining user base. Sunset is the only viable path for a product that has not seen an update in nine years.
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Is Football Radio 2016-17: Pro & College Football free to use?
Does the app work for listening to games in the background?
Why does the app crash when I try to listen to a game?
Sources
- [1] App Store
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