Leave a Review WLWT News 5
Hate auto played video
I tend to catch up on the news either as I lay dune at bedtime (only to open an article to read, waking my husband because it starts involuntarily playing the article video??) I never click on the videos as I am trying g to quietly read the articles while others are sleeping. I hate when you click on an article to read it, and blasting commercials then articles play. I have to completely turn off any volume before opening a every single article on your site. Often I forget to turn it back on. Frustrating.Show lessconfused on correct weather
Get rid of the stupid COVID banner
It was good for a while and I didn’t mind it because if you wanted to view the “updates” then all you had to do was scroll to the top and click on the banner. NOW they banner is almost if not more annoying as the “pandemic” itself. Trying to read headlines and scrolling up only makes the banner take up over half the screen. Get your wannabe updates about COVID off the screen and allow the people to be able to read the news without you shoving this overrated COVID crap in their face.Show lesslostmymind1978
Review
This news service is excellent!
Great factual stories without wordiness.
Up to the minute news stories, not old ones.
Also, good; the human interest stories are great to read.
The weather part is factual and current plus the Futurecast weather is very good, timely and accurate! Keep it up.👍Double doozer
Breaking news
App works I can say that much. But really, I get notifications for a breaking news story and it’s followed by days old news stories from every where. One day should be enough for stories that are local news for me. The news cast itself is in my opinion okay nothing special. I like Lester Holt and NBC news that’s why I’m sure to watch last 30 minutes of the daily news on WLW Cincinnati.Show lessFL2piece
Interactive radar
The interactive radar on my iPhone 8 has stopped working. Only a white screen appears. I delete and re-installed the app. No different.kjaybeee
Stop Race Baiting Garbage
Sick and tired of wanting to read real news, both locally and abroad, without inclusion/racism/LGBTQ+++/anti capitalism/Trump hating/COVID-19 lies about meds that really do work but because you hate Trump you won’t tell the truth & COVID-19 rules for me but not for thee/cop hating propaganda. When will you, Apple News, and all news outlets learn people of all colors, ages, genders or lack there of, are really tired of it all. It’s forcing people to look elsewhere for news like Twitter & RT. Think of something your parents tried shoving down your throat when you were a kid. What happened? You rebelled and were most likely disgusted by it. That’s how a lot of people feel right now. It’s nonstop 24/7 racist divisive garbage. Please just give the news. A sports team kneeling before a game is NOT news.Show lessSouperFlyz
Lose the ads!
WLWT seems to report on mst breaking events. This good! However, every time I start to rad an article, a ad pops up and blocks the news article. At the end of the ad, the article continues, but the news article information that was covered by the ad ca not be retrieved.
I understand that the ads are needed to provide revenue for the paper. If the article is Thai important, try one of these remedies:
1). Show the ad before or after the article.
2) leave the ads where they are, but after the ad, pick up the remaining information on the article beginning at the point where the article was interrupted by the ad.Show lessfantom flyer
Battery drain and frozen screen
I used to love this app for local radar and staying up-to-date on local news. But my battery started to drain and traced it back to this app. After deleting, my battery still has about 70% charge at the end of the day. Before it barely made it a full day.
The app also locks up all the time. You have to completely close it once locked to get it working again.
And finally, someone else mentioned the 6hr Doppler radar loop makes no sense. The default should be an hour with an option to change it or a link to the website if they want more history or options. It’s painful waiting for the 6hr loop to load.
I’ll download again in a month or two and hopefully at least the battery drain and frozen screen issues are fixed.Show lesswhatdafrack
You have to dig through piles of advertising
I’m very disappointed in the wlwt news 5 app. I think many of the positive reviews must have come from employees of the station.
70% or more of the app is advertising and commercials. Every video you try to watch makes you dit through the same commercial for 15 seconds.
In between articles are loads of advertisements making it unbearable to dig through and try to read.
Terrible!Show lessniewie
Ads chop off parts of news articles.
Key components of news items are frequently covered by ads and this removes context from the story. To the point that I have to open apps from other local news stations to find the part that is missing. Needs to be fixed, plain and simple.yrrrry
