NBC Bay Area: News & Weather
52
Quality Score
Solid
NBC Bay Area: News & Weather
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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NBC Bay Area: News & Weather is an Android app from NBCUniversal Media, LLC in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 3.7★ across 1,017 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a News & Magazines app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$33K |
Total estimate$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$5K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 13× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷News & Magazines category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
120K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
18K
Daily active
8.1K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲News & Magazines engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
7.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.68★ across 1,017 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($38K/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (1,017 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v8.7.1🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
📝 About this app
The NBC Bay Area news and weather app connects you with local news, local weather and a free, 24/7 streaming news channel. The app is free and easy to download, offering customizable breaking news alerts and weather notifications tailored to your location through convenient app settings. Get the best local news and weather app for stories out of San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and more Bay Area cities.
The NBC Bay Area app helps you stay informed with the following features:
BAY AREA NEWS ALERTS… View full description on the official store →
The NBC Bay Area app helps you stay informed with the following features:
BAY AREA NEWS ALERTS… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — nbcbayarea.com
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- NBC Bay Area: News & Weather
- Developer
- NBCUniversal Media, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.nbcuni.nbcots.nbcbayarea.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.nbcbayarea.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $532/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth1,017 ratings+41% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for NBC Bay Area: News & Weather: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,017 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does NBC Bay Area make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, NBC Bay Area earns approximately $532/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is NBC Bay Area profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $532, NBC Bay Area looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does NBC Bay Area have?▴
Estimated audience: ~120K lifetime downloads, ~18K monthly active users, and ~8K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like NBC Bay Area?▴
Browse the full News & Magazines category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
How much would NBC Bay Area sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $5.0K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 13× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
Who makes NBC Bay Area?▴
NBC Bay Area is published by NBCUniversal Media, LLC on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is NBC Bay Area's BU Score?▴
NBC Bay Area has a BU Score of 52/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.