Erie News Now User Reviews

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Excessive number of Ads

I understand the need for revenue but the number of ads is extreme. Especially the now add at startup. I’ll be going somewhere else for my local news.

Too much focus on ads

There are ads everywhere. They are not content just providing news to people. The ads prevent seeing many of the stories. Get your news from social media instead.

Alerts Popup annoying

Every time I open the app I get an alert to turn on notifications. This is ridiculous. I’ll be using another news app going forward.

Crappy

Both the IPad app and and the one I use on my Apple TV are horrible. The tv one drives me crazy. It tells you to click the menu to get rid of the bottom pop up and it always exits instead and then you have to rewatch the ads. So annoying! It’s been like this for at least three years.

Dish

The people that have Dish Network would like to thank you for shutting us off, so we can’t get local news anymore and no regular antennas don’t work so thanks for not coming to an agreement it doesn’t hurt dish just it’s customers

Dish

The people that have Dish Network would like to thank you for shedding us off, so we can’t get local news anymore and no regular antennas don’t work so thanks for not coming to an agreement it doesn’t hurt dish just it’s customers

Poor at best

“Journalist’s” and “broadcaster’s” are sub par. It’s completely left leaning politically and I am sick of hearing and seeing fake news and data.

Good for weather info

But wishing all the sky cams worked
Warren sky cam is off

Sue Bedow

I cannot open any weather alerts on my app You say there are some and a triangular symbol appears but it won’t open and tell me anything.

Weather Advisory

When you click on weather advisory’s nothing happens. Zero info like on the old version of the app. My goodness address this issue. Has no one noticed this?

Mom

New update when u click on a weather advisory nothing happens except blank screen good warning system smh

Mobile app not optimized for mobile displays

Whenever you post an article that includes a list or table, the left and right sides of the list are cut off. You can’t zoom out, and if you try to swipe a little bit to the left or right, you get a blank screen. If this is a mobile app, it should work on my iPhone and any other device.

Also, what happened to the live radar feed on the weather page? People who have lived in Erie long enough know we need to see the radar to really know if rain is coming our way.

My other complaint isn’t about the app itself. If concerns the chronic and appallingly horrendous grammar and punctuation abuse in the news stories. It’s painful to try to decipher some of them, and it’s embarrassing to share articles on social media. I volunteer to proofread them before they’re posted, if you’re in need of some help.
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Poorly updated

And I thought the Times News was behind on current events.
I am looking at the weather info on a Thursday and it shows info for Monday.
Thumbs down.

Venango county

I would like to see venango county included in the weather reports.
Thank you

Why ruin this now?

So now that the apps updated no stories to read. Just a title and screen shot of the the story? What good does this serve if I have to watch an ad and watch the part of news video? I and other people do enjoy reading too. Take advice, if it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it! You barely deserve a 1 star rating. Wish I could just give you 2 thumbs down.
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Response from developer

We just updated our app. It has a brand new interface, more features and is even easier to use. It should also address the issues you mentioned. Give it a try and let us know what you think. Thanks!

Love it

I live in ny state work on east side of Erie only get buffalo news on my direct tv love being able to know what I’m driving into daily so I always check the app !!!aaa++++

No good ☹️

Every time I want to look at a report it starts to open up then it just goes blank and won't you exit out of it and you have to close app then open it again to have the same thing happen again and again. Really disappointed 😔

Response from developer

Our development team just released a brand new version of the app. This should address the issue with it crashing. Try it out and let us know what you think.

Kyle

It's a good app I love it there no add I love it keep up the good work

Content

The content needs to be updated more often and it has an annoying add every time you try to open it

Response from developer

We just released a brand new version of the app. There's more content, it's easier to use and the fullscreen ad on startup is now gone. Check it out and tell us what you think.

Local headlines

Good for quick local headlines.