CBS 17 News User Reviews

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Was good…

Give me a break. Why is it every time this app needs an update I can’t reach my local weather page until I update. This time, after updating, still can’t reach the page for local weather. Only Raleigh and surrounding towns pop up. Was the local page removed?

Update?

App starts to load and then goes black since the update yesterday. I’ve deleted and reloaded- still same. Fix or it goes permanently

Was good…

This was my go to app for weather. Was. Apparently in the last few days they’ve redesigned the weather page. Now it’s totally garbage. Poorly thought out and designed as far as I’m concerned. App is going in my trash bin. Maybe I’ll look at it sometime in the future to see if these mistakes are reversed..but I doubt it. WRAL, whoever is responsible, did the same thing to their app. Was good. Also garbage, especially their weather radar. That’s about the only good thing that wasn’t changed in this app, but still, not wasting my time
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Search on App

This would be a really good news app if you had a search box or button.

Invasive Videos

Open the app and a news video automatically opens and remains on your desktop even after you close the app. Very annoying! I deleted the app.

Fixed bug

Would like to have the old 17 app back. After whatever fix you fixed now I have giant letters and etc that your app has no settings for size. This only happened after the fix . Never had a prior problem before. I did prefer 17 over WRAL 5 app but now I use WRAL 5 that doesn’t have big giant letters, numbers etc especially on the bottom of 17 has letters on top of each other like blocks.
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Buggy app

Enjoy watching CBS17 and used to enjoy the mobile app. Seems there is a conflict between the appa d iOS17.x - it keeps asking for initial data and regardless of how many times I enter said data, the app loops back to the initial data entry screen. Deleting it for now…

17

Used to be good. Now it is fixed ? Didn’t have a problem before now I do with everything is in extra large mode. Btw I used to like 17 app for news now I deleted 17 and use WRAL app. WRAL news app works fine no super size letters that are unreadable. And I really liked17 app better up till about a few days ago.
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What happened?

When the app was updated three days ago, it broke on my iphone 15S.

I deleted it off my iphone and then downloaded again.

It opens and then automatically closes and I can’t get it to work.

Any ideas of what to try?

App won’t open

App won’t open to news since update. Only goes to notification page.

3 Tornado Warnings and I'm watching a 30s ad

My area is in three tornado warnings and every single time I leave and return to the app for live coverage, I have to watch a 30 second ad. Will be looking for a different news app.

Please develop an app for Roku

Great station but need a Roku app for live broadcasts of noon and 6 and 11.

Horrible

I travel around the state a lot and even into the neighboring states. I like your old app to let me know where the weather was going on. I now find it to be cumbersome and will be switching to something else.

Earlier version was much better

Overall, don’t like the new app. Only used this new app for the last ten minutes, already miss the old app which had a much nicer, BIGGER radar map display. Liked the old layout for the weather forecast. Now the old app doesn’t work, and I’m stuck with this one.

Local news cbs 17

Great news I really enjoyed the topics of the story

Unsmooth

Hard to navigate between news sections. Clunky.

Needed4ParktonNC

This is more than a Review, it’s a Plea too. One night during a terrible storm, Bill was on. We have to get our news from WBTW but we in NC are second class citizens when it comes to our NC news. If we get a small breeze or fog we loose signal. Bill was there and included Robeson County in his broadcast. You sold me that night. I wish you all would cover this state line to line and beyond. Folks on satellite can’t tell you who the Governor is in NC. MCMASTER is doing great things. And Sports. Hands down the best. You are top of the line on sports. News desk. Your great too. Just wish you were down here more. Wishing all of you a Wonderful and Happy New Year. God Bless You!!!
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Love your news but

Love reading the news on the app but there are a lot of issues. App freezes or either shuts down while reading.

Concise and Precise

It

CBS 17 app

Very slow opening app. The only thing that loads fast and continue is the advertisements on the bottom of page. I use another news app for my area and have no problems with loading of the news. 17 seems to have given high priority to advertisers then loading the actual news. No problem seeing advertisements. Should have given it two stars or less. Frustrating.
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