WISN 12 News User Reviews

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Nothing new

Too many notifications which don’t highlight anything new. The news looks the same to me.

WHY?

I can’t believe how useless this app has become in the last few months!! Ads and promos take forever and zip in before ANY information that was just clicked on - I cannot even get to current and URGENT weather information without waiting through the station promos which are repeated OVER AND OVER - just total BS these days!! I used to count on ‘12’ for traffic news in the am and up-to-the minute weather during storms; now all i get is ads. What a WASTE!
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WISN

Has always been my favorite station, ABC my favorite network!

Lindsey

Due to her departure we are no longer watching the broadcast in the am or possibly in the evening.

Not updated often

It seems like it’s not updated very often, I see the same stories all weekend long . Why bother to have an App if it’s not up to date?

Cancel Culture

I can’t support a company who cancels a show because Trump didn’t like what the show said about him.

Ad Nauseum

Every story has to open with an ad. Seems like a higher than normal amount compared to other news outlets.

To many adds

Frustrating, every time I decide to read or watch anything sent to my attention. I must wait for advertisement to end. Really tired of Jobs dot com adds. To the point I won’t even look them up.
Should consider perhaps every third story or something. Thinking of just deleting the app.

Click Bait

Used to be a good app, now it publishes push notifications for highly interacted stores days, weeks or even years in the past all in the hopes you click the notification and drive their ad revenue no doubt.

News sources are supposed to be better than this.

Uninstalled app, WISN will have to work very hard to earn a new download from me.
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Ads

Too many ads and items that look like stories end up being ads

Very Professional

I feel WISN 12 News is on top of the breaking news and all the Weather People are very Professional and well informed on the subject of the weather conditions

Impossible to Read an Article

When I click on an article to read it the page goes back to the Home Screen. Impossible to read an article. I tried deleting and reinstalling the app and the problem continues.

Frustrated

Great local coverage of news and weather. BUT impossible to read an entire article before it jumps back to the login screen. This has been a problem for a long time.

Can’t read stories

Every time I open a story on the app, it closes and goes back to the home page.

Best local production

Come for the weather and stay hooked to their unbiased local news.Thank you for keeping me informed. The only channel we watched at my residence.

I

Your reporter on the police shooting at 14th and Vliet is disgusting and way beyond “reporting”. The reporter “Nick” remarking that the police intimidated the suspect and that the suspect did not drop the knife because he may not have heard the cops. The reporter was not there for the confrontation so how can he make these accusatory remarks? What would he do if two angry men came at him with knives? Police are always being tried and convicted by local news without the benefit of gathering the facts. When a suspect fires at cops the reporters always refer to him as the alleged shooter. One side inflammatory reporting only adds to the difficulty of thes situations.
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Videos dont play.

Videos dont play.

Really bad news highlights

I like to check up on the LOCAL news when I miss the broadcast. But their app is filled with so much junk and nonsense stories. Why add the all sponsored content, advertising stories? It’s a headache to navigate. I actually get my news now from the other two stations websites, cause this app is just is so unappealing. And I can get all the local news from them.
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Notifications no longer work

I have had the Channel 12 app for years. I admit sometimes I got a little annoyed at the volume of notifications they sent out, especially if it was something silly like a human interest story that had been airing all week.
I guess I got my wish for fewer notifications when they just stopped altogether. I can’t get weather or news. I tried reinstalling the app, nothing. The settings are set to weather, local and national news. Absolutely nothing. I had to download Channel 4’s app to get notifications and now use theirs more often. I can’t figure out what went wrong.
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Good news bad app

I like channel 12 but the app crashes too much