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Tired of intrusive ads
Like many other reviewers have noted, this app has gone downhill. Ads are a large part of my frustration, I understand they’re part if what keeps the app afloat, but there has to be a line. If I click a notification of a news briefing, I should be taken directly to that briefing. I should not have to sit there while a full page ad plays until the timer ends, then have to search through all of the news stories to find the one that should have been directly linked. I could handle ads on the article page, but having to wait only to then have to find the story myself, ridiculous. The separate app for weather is also annoying, but I could get over it. The point of the app is to make it easier for people who aren’t able to watch the scheduled broadcasts, but it feels like the app is designed with a focus on being most beneficial towards their advertisers, not the people using the app.Show lessCorrieRL
Ads
I understand the business model need for ads and ad revenue but to have a full page add play at full volume (often not even in English )when a user clicks on your app says 2 things:
1) you value whoever clicks on your app more as a potential revenue source than a member of the community who wants news
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2) you’re just wasting everyone’s time when you play an ad that isn’t even presented in a language the app user may or may not speak.
Please stick to reporting the news using banner ads or embedded ads or allow the user to opt out of the full volume, full screen ads.Show lessNelzer75
Clunky and intrusive app
WITN is the slightly big fish is a very small pond in eastern NC television news, the best news station by default. But this app…ugh! Clunky and annoying. Video ads pop up when you try and check headlines and you have to completely close the app to shut them down. Cumbersome, amateurish. The app used to be mediocre. They redesigned it, making me yearn for the good old days of mediocrity. As bad as WNCT is as a news outlet, U
I think I’m going to give their app a test drive just to be rid of the thing.Show lesstherealbassman
Hard to find weather radar
I used to be able to easily find current and future radar for the weather. Too difficult to find now.Blanketview
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You are the only news app that has a loud Spanish advertisement that one has to listen to before accessing the news portion.5202wolfpacker
Switches to Spanish
I have had to delete and re-install the WITN news app twice recently because it suddenly switches to Spanish and has no way to restore English. I don’t speak Spanish.Abundant Joy
App not working
This had been working fine until recently when I get a message that I had no internet connection. Funny all the rest of my work fine.carterl3
App not loading on Wi-Fi. Works fine on cellular data.
This issue started with the latest update last week. All other apps and internet usage is normal on Wi-Fi except this app. Both my iPad and iPhone are having this issue. All software is updated.Steve 9a1
Where’s the weather?
This app used to be a one-stop shop for news and weather. It worked well because often I’d go to check weather and end up scanning news. Now there is no weather on the app. They want you to download a completely separate app just for weather. Sorry, not doing that. I’ll just use WNCT’s app that does both.Show lessPrrthead
No local news…
Great idea for an app, but the news stories aren’t local at all, and aren’t any of our actual headlines. Just clickbait articles about places three hours away. And yes, I have my location enabled and settings correct.NC Queenie
