The short answer
The Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
4 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 4.2). Over the last twelve months The Charlotte Observer sent 322 notifications, pushing on 77 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 09:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-04-23, with 9 pushes.
The daily clock
All of The Charlotte Observer's pushes from the last twelve months, on United States's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 09:00.
The Charlotte Observerpeak 09:001.2% of The Charlotte Observer's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the United States timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 4.5 The Charlotte Observer pushes and a weekend day 1.1: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How The Charlotte Observer writes a push
| Habit | The Charlotte Observer | United States median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 15 | 13 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 69 | 86 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 54.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.9% | 0.2% |
| Phrased as a question | 14.6% | 4.5% |
Aggregates over every The Charlotte Observer notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other United States apps
Every United States news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. The Charlotte Observer is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breaking News | 17,763 | 45.0 | 14:00 |
| 2 |  NYPost | 5,135 | 14.0 | 11:00 |
| 3 |  SCMP | 4,351 | 28 | 07:00 |
| 4 |  Mercury News | 2,846 | 8.0 | 11:00 |
| 5 |  The Athletic | 2,824 | 14.0 | 05:00 |
| 6 |  AP News | 2,619 | 9 | 12:00 |
| 7 |  AOL | 2,126 | 6.0 | 08:00 |
| 8 |  ABC13 | 1,766 | 4.0 | 08:00 |
| 9 |  Bloomberg | 1,752 | 5 | 11:00 |
| 10 |  NBC NEWS | 1,547 | 7.0 | 07:00 |
| 11 |  HuffPost | 1,462 | 11.0 | 11:00 |
| 12 |  Epoch Times | 1,392 | 7 | 08:00 |
| 13 |  Washington Post | 1,315 | 6.0 | 18:00 |
| 14 |  NYTimes | 1,219 | 5 | 01:00 |
| 15 |  TribLive | 1,209 | 9.0 | 09:00 |
| 16 |  CBS News | 1,199 | 8.0 | 15:00 |
| 17 |  Al Jazeera | 1,112 | 5 | 02:00 |
| 18 |  BBC | 1,094 | 3.0 | 07:00 |
| 19 |  POLITICO | 1,057 | 5 | 12:00 |
| 20 |  NPR | 1,049 | 6 | 14:00 |
| 21 |  CNBC | 909 | 3.0 | 16:00 |
| 22 |  Seattle Times Mobile | 897 | 5 | 13:00 |
| 23 |  St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 843 | 9 | 09:00 |
| 24 |  ABC News | 812 | 4.0 | 15:00 |
| 25 |  Philly Inquirer | 697 | 5 | 18:00 |
| 26 |  WSJ | 650 | 4 | 21:00 |
| 27 |  OREGONLIVE | 601 | 5.0 | 11:00 |
| 28 |  Reuters | 402 | 3 | 08:00 |
| 29 |  ABC7LA | 371 | 4 | 01:00 |
| 30 |  The Atlantic | 367 | 3 | 12:00 |
| 31 |  Sacramento Bee | 348 | 3.0 | 11:00 |
| 32 |  The Kansas City Star | 341 | 4 | 11:00 |
| 33 | The Charlotte Observer | 322 | 4 | 09:00 |
| 34 |  Syracuse.com | 311 | 3 | 07:00 |
| 35 |  Newsmax | 246 | 2.0 | 10:00 |
| 36 |  Honolulu Star-Advertiser | 230 | 2 | 13:00 |
| 37 |  Arkansas Online-The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | 211 | 2.0 | 10:00 |
| 38 |  inkl news | 197 | 1 | 01:00 |
| 39 |  Lexington Herald-Leader | 118 | 2.0 | 15:00 |
| 40 |  HBR | 116 | 2 | 15:00 |
| 41 |  The State | 103 | 2 | 09:00 |
Method
AO.news runs a fleet of phones with hundreds of news apps installed and every notification switched on; each push is recorded the moment it lands. This page counts the 322 notifications The Charlotte Observer sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in America/New_York local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added to our phones mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach our devices. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.