# NORTHERN NEWS NOW — user reviews > 18 indexed App Store user reviews of NORTHERN NEWS NOW by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 1,325 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/northern-news-now/id1169670285/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/northern-news-now/id1169670285.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 997 · 4★ 203 · 3★ 72 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 38 ## What do users think of NORTHERN NEWS NOW? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Accurate and dependable local news - 👍 Good local weather and sports coverage **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent app performance on Apple TV - 🐛 Frequent technical issues and bugs - 🐛 Outdated and inaccurate local reporting - 🤖 Presence of AI-generated content instead of real news **Commonly reported bugs** - App getting lost during commercials on Apple TV - Support website link not working - Inability to watch live news as advertised **Most requested features** - Search functionality to find specific news stories - Improved support and responsiveness from the developer ## Newest reviews (2 of 18) ### 1/5 — Website is always 2 days behind WDIO *2020-05-09, version 4.35.220052004* Who manages this website?? It’s old news and hard to find info School closings are buried also ### 1/5 — No SEARCH Capability! *2017-01-22, version 1.0.2* This app doesn't provide a SEARCH box to find a specific news story by keyword! What kind of information app doesn't have search ability?! THIS ONE!!! Useless. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — You can’t get there from here *2026-07-08, version 7.0.6* Commercial insertion on Apple TV live broadcast is plain broken! The #%^%* thing does NOT work / the timing is off. By the time commercials finish, the broadcast has already started. And most recently, it completely skipped the end of the forecast with the 10 day weather, and went to well over 4 minutes of commercial. By the time it came back, the next segment was already airing. Completely missed the end of the weather. Don’t know how much to blame the app vs how much is error on the part of the station. Bonus points - when they eventually get one thing fixed, they usually break something else ### 1/5 — You can’t get there from here *2026-05-22* Used to work. The more Gray Media does, the worse things get. Trying to look at a couple news items. Two of them jump right past the story and go to a resources page from which you can’t get back. Lots of other minor complaints. It’s as if everyone is still trying to figure this out. Amateurs ### 1/5 — I hate this app *2026-05-17, version 7.0.4* While I appreciate KBJR6 for the work they do, this app is horrible. It’s hard to navigate, incredibly slow to load stories and videos. Can we put the black bear casino ad literally anywhere else? I’d like my news app to bring me right to the story or home page when I open the app, having this ad (or any other) pop up every single time is about to be my 13th reason. ### 1/5 — Not impressed *2026-03-12, version 7.0.2* The new app is clunky! It feels like it was rushed to make a deadline ### 1/5 — New 2026 version is perfect for flushing *2026-03-06, version 7.0.0* I had to delete app and just stick with the OTHER local news apps. Hopefully they didn’t pay someone to design this latest turd. Was fine before even though the forced advertising just to OPEN it was horrible idea. NNN should fire their entire design team. ### 1/5 — Just… ew *2025-10-26, version 6.0.16* Well, what KBJR has become is certainly anything but news. Aside from local Fox, I can’t imagine having such a group of incapable “journalists”. From just foolish typos, inaccurate local reporting, to now just silly AI dribble. So…. Just gross. I swear, the only decent writeups on this app come from elsewhere, like borrowed AP/Grey News articles. Do better. Then maybe I’d be inclined to tolerate a full sound advert from your app. ### 1/5 — Apple TV issues *2023-12-14* Works okay until you get to commercials. Then it falls off the planet - shows the Gray Media image, half the time it doesn’t come back Tried support thru the developer web page. Did not get a response I also use northland news app on Roku - works fine ### 1/5 — Needs work *2023-11-20* First: the support link in the App Store 404’s Seems to work okay on Roku, but on Apple TV, it gets lost in space, beachballs, goes to commercial and never comes back. Very inconsistent behavior. Have not tried it on other Apple devices. ### 1/5 — Does not work like they say *2023-03-14, version 6.0.5* Never been able to watch live news on the app ### 1/5 — Tech *2020-10-09, version 4.35.570057186* Your site rarely comes up on my computers when all other stations and the DNT come up easily. You have a tech issue! ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I Love KBJR TV App. *2021-11-05, version 4.35.720059206* I love the local news, local weather and local sports. ### 5/5 — Our go to news source *2020-11-28, version 4.35.570057186* Always accurate and dependable ### 5/5 — I *2018-10-08, version 4.30.430040994* It is in my opinion, our news persons are the best in the northland!! I rarely if ever watch any other local news here in the northland. I especially enjoy the weather men and Jenna! Both of the Adams are good at there jobs. And all are very knowledgeable! They all are very serious but can have fun also. I hope this is what you wanted. It’s quite late and I am tired 💤 so please forgive me if it was just messed up! Good night now! Keep doing the wonderful jobs you do morning noon and dinner times and last but not least. The 10 pm time slot. Sandi ### 4/5 — KBJR bews *2019-02-08, version 4.30.470042271* The news is fine but I switch channels when your so called weather man is blowing his horn. The weather gal is very good. ### 3/5 — New NNN App *2026-03-08, version 7.0.0* The new app isn’t as user friendly as the old one. Plus, I have a red alert showing up but I don’t see any alerts to look at. Frustrating! So far, I’m not impressed! ### 3/5 — Airing paid ads guaranteed to raise the number of acts of terror *2021-04-13, version 4.35.570058085* The organization for Christians and Jews narrated by Mike Huckabee pretends to be a request for funds for Jews living in Ukraine. It may possibly be that, but the pictures say this is how you terrorize old people here. It doesn't matter if it isn't a training film by design, it is in fact a repetitious film that shows how to actually get rid of old people; make them fearful, take away their comforts, tell them to go away, they're in the way. This is not fanciful. Three years ago I got a new neighbor who had that mindset.he told me I couldn't use our common driveway; I told him he needed to see the titles at the courthouse. The next time he said why don't I just die so somebody young could have my house. That's how evil thinking spreads to Proud Bois who marched saying •"The Jews will not replace us" in Portland last summer. These young men are frustrated with the economy and feel cheated by those of us who were paid a fair wage 35 years ago. They're blaming the wrong people because they listen to the wrong people. It was the president and CEOs who dropped the bottom out of our wages with the war on unions. Thank you for reading my rant. Cheryl Lawrence, Cloquet, MN --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-04.*