95.5 WSB

Review by eFreeware

Most radio apps try to be everything to everyone. 95.5 WSB does the opposite: it is the Android home of one Atlanta station, News 95-5 and AM750 WSB, and it is built around that station's news, weather and traffic output rather than a broad catalog of channels. The developer is Cox Media Group, and the app has been on Google Play since April 2014, with an update in July 2026.

That focus shapes who it suits. If you live or work in the Atlanta area and want the station's reporting, forecasts and road coverage on your phone, this is the app for that job. If you are outside the region, or you want a general-purpose radio player, the appeal is thinner. The install base of over 100,000 and a 4.0 average from 1,749 ratings suggest a settled audience rather than a breakout hit.

What you get when you open it

The core of the app is a live stream of the station, running around the clock. That means the same mix the broadcast carries: local news, weather forecasts and traffic reports, plus the talk programming that fills the rest of the schedule. You are not browsing a library of stations; you are tuning in to one.

On demand, the app offers Eric Von Haessler's show, so a segment you missed during the day can be picked up later rather than waiting for a repeat. The station's talk lineup also includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Erick Erickson and Clark Howard, which tells you the flavor of the spoken-word hours: consumer advice and opinion-led talk rather than music.

Traffic is treated as a headline feature rather than an afterthought. The station's Triple Team Airborne Traffic coverage feeds the reports, and the app is the mobile route to those updates. For anyone whose day involves Atlanta's highway network, that is the part that earns the install.

Alerts and the Open Mic

Three alert types are singled out: Breaking News, Severe Weather Warnings and Traffic Red Alerts. These are the moments when a radio app can do something a plain stream cannot, since you do not have to be listening for the phone to flag something worth knowing. The value depends on how much you want your phone buzzing about metro Atlanta conditions.

Open Mic works in the other direction. Tips on traffic and breaking news can go to the station, and hosts can receive listener comments. That is a genuinely local feature: it only makes sense if you are in a position to see something the newsroom has not, or you want your reaction to a segment to reach the people making it.

Between the alerts and Open Mic, the app positions itself as a two-way link to the station rather than a passive player. Neither feature changes what the broadcast is, but together they make the phone a more useful companion to it than a simple stream would be.

What it asks of you

The download is free, and the app carries ads. There are no in-app purchases. The content rating is Teen, which fits a news and talk format that deals with the day's events rather than anything aimed at children.

The bigger constraint is that this is Atlanta's station. The news, the traffic and the weather coverage are all local to the city and the wider state, and the talk lineup is the station's own schedule. There is no attempt to serve a national audience, and the app is not a directory you can point at another market.

Live radio also means the experience follows the broadcast clock. What is playing is whatever is on air at that moment, with Eric Von Haessler's show the stated exception available on demand. If you want to pick and choose segments from the whole day, that is not what this is set up to do.

Suited to Atlanta listeners first

The clearest fit is someone in metro Atlanta who already knows the station and wants it in their pocket: the commute, the school run, the drive across town, the afternoon when the sky turns dark and you want to know what is coming. The alerts and the airborne traffic coverage are aimed at exactly those moments.

A second group is the listener who follows the talk hosts and wants Eric Von Haessler's show on demand rather than at the hour it airs. Clark Howard's consumer segments fit the same pattern.

Outside those groups, the case weakens. The app is a single station's mobile arm, and its usefulness tracks how much that station matters to your day. Someone in another city, or someone who wants a wide choice of stations and formats, will find little here that speaks to them.

The case for installing it

Judged as what it is, 95.5 WSB does a focused job. It carries the live stream, adds alerts for the three situations the station treats as urgent, gives listeners a way to feed tips and comments back, and puts one show on demand. There is nothing to buy inside the app.

The track record is reasonable without being remarkable: a 4.0 average across 1,749 ratings, more than 100,000 installs, and an update in July 2026 that the developer describes as feature enhancements and bug fixes. That reads as an app that is still being tended rather than one that has been left alone.

If Atlanta is your city and WSB is your station, this is a straightforward install. It is the station's own app, built for its own audience, and it does the things that audience would want. If neither of those is true, the app has little to offer you, and it does not pretend otherwise.

What's new in version 12.0.91

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