WSOC-TV News

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R10] 5/5 · US Great News & Weather App.: I find the WSOC-TV news app to be very informative. I grew up watching WSOC News cast. Having their app is great for days when I am not able to watch their nightly news cast.
2. [R11] 5/5 · US Charlinda Rector: I love WSOC-TV because it’s interesting what be happening out there in the world and weather and the environment
3. [R26] 5/5 · US Wsoc App: I love the Wsoc app because I always get news and weather on time. Thank you so much
4. [R35] 5/5 · US WSOC-TV: I get reliable weather information.
5. [R77] 5/5 · US Best news app !: The WSOC-TV app is the best in class for breaking news as well as local and national stories. It is my go-to for staying updated.
6. [R78] 5/5 · US First to know: This App. Is awesome...very informative and up to date. The channel 9 view in that keeps you up-to-date with the latest news and weather information.
7. [R84] 5/5 · US Improve search and limit ads: I like the news alerts but when I click on an alert to see the story I cannot find it. The alert should link directly to the story. The search feature rarely works. The ads are invasive. I have tried to use this app to no avail. Take some lessons from The New York Times. Their app is awesome
8. [R8] 5/5 · US Great app: User friendly
9. [R9] 1/5 · US Too many bugs: Your app is so glitchy. The videos freeze and it crashes. I was relying on it for the news when you were no longer on YouTube tv. You’ve got a long way to go! Improve your app!
10. [R13] 2/5 · US Bad connection: Checking news from around NC. 6 tv news sources. All are received fine except WSOC. Read one article and then. Dead space for several minutes unless I close app and restart. May need a network upgrade WSOC! Never happens on any other tv news.
11. [R20] 2/5 · US Videos are doubled and audio plays even after app is closed: As a Charlotte native I trust WSOC-TV for my news. However, lately the app audio will start playing even when I am not in the app. I was in a meeting a work and even though my phone was on silent, the audio from a news story started playing. So embarrassing!!! This was not the first time either one night, in the middle of the night, it s
12. [R22] 2/5 · US Video hangs and then plays double audio: Since the latest update, I have resorted to shutting the app down after only about 5 minutes of use. The live video abruptly stops and when it starts again, it plays double audio or even the audio from a commercial (of which now there are WAY to many). Until this is resolved, I will no longer use the app.
13. [R1] 4/5 · US Infomercials way too long!!: Same infomercials time after time!!!
14. [R19] 3/5 · US Video: I HATE the upgrade. All of a sudden a week or so ago news videos started playing automatically and won’t stop even when you close the app. If I wanted to watch or hear the video I should be able to control it myself. It’s really annoying to open the app to catch up on headlines and a video starts blaring, especially if I’m doing this in a quiet space like a doctors office or bed while my
15. [R30] 5/5 · US Need to change: To many commercials and when you click on a story it doesn’t show the video that goes with the story. I scroll down to see video of other stories. You just have to watch all the news I guess that I don’t want to see and I assume eventually it gets to my story. So I usually have to back out and start over. Shouldn’t have to do this.
16. [R37] 2/5 · US .: To many ads. Also can only turn iPad 1 way.
17. [R4] 1/5 · US Don't Bother: This is, by far, the worst news app of the three network TV stations in Charlotte. It's technologically shoddy and unreliable, and consistently has outdated information. As for the staff, their writing, spelling and grammatical skills are embarrassingly poor more often than not. I finally gave up and deleted it from my mobile device.
18. [R6] 1/5 · US Horrible!: Do not depend on this app for your local Charlotte news! This app is constantly full of old news and outdated information and stories. It doesn’t get updated on a regular basis, and important stories can take days to make it to the app. In addition, they repeat the same story multiple times under different headings to make it look like there is a lot of news content. There isn’t. Spor
19. [R12] 1/5 · US Review of the app: Some stories remain on the app for weeks and weeks. This is a waste of my time to keep looking at this app. I look other places for my local news
20. [R15] 3/5 · US 30 days on website: Still have some stories that have been on your web site for more than a month Sure there are other stories that could be there
21. [R5] 1/5 · US Outdated?: Your app needs to be updated to allow auto rotation from portrait to landscape when used on an iPad. I have submitted this comment previously but to no avail. Please strongly consider making this improvement.
22. [R39] 1/5 · US Can’t use on IPad anymore: What’s wrong? Can only view it in portrait mode.
23. [R40] 1/5 · US Suddenly unfriendly for iPad users: This app was fine until a recent update keeps it locked in portrait mode, which is pretty unusable for iPad users. I am now deleting the app.
24. [R14] 1/5 · US Terribly outdated and broken app: Notification links don’t even open
25. [R16] 4/5 · US Bait and switch??: I like this app, but have one issue. I’ll get an alert about a news story. I’ll click on the alert to take me to the story, but it just takes me to the apps main page. Story I clicked on nowhere to be found….
26. [R43] 2/5 · US Used to be better: I liked their app much better in the past. More recently I keep getting alerts for nothing alert worthy, practically “it may rain tomorrow “ type stuff, or the equivalent of “it is cold out.” In the past I only received the severe weather alerts. I check my settings, should be just severe weather. Also, when I click on the app for the “weather alert” I get a screen full of adver
27. [R57] 2/5 · US I have never in my life seen recurved such spam notifications: Even after adjusting notification settings, disabling certain alerts like sports- I still get every single one. Most mornings I’ve gotten 2 or 3 notifications before the sun is even up, usually about some meaningless drivel that is not even kind of relevant to me. I want breaking news. I do not want notifications from my trusted loc
28. [R23] 5/5 · US WSOC app: I hate the new format that has a video at the top of the page playing when I’m trying to read a story on the page. If I want to watch a video I will click on it. I get double play at once and it drives me crazy. You need to go back to the old format. If this continues I will fond another station to get my newa.
29. [R29] 1/5 · US It’s playing double audio since update: Audio n video errors need to be fixed immediately; I can’t watch it even just read because automatically the app opens with audio playing. If I try to pick something else the original audio n new audio plays at same time. Then at times the video doesn’t open with error showing but audio playing someone but another audio is playing as well. Very annoying and
30. [R41] 1/5 · US Limited access: Why can’t we look for a story we might have missed?
31. [R69] 1/5 · US Horrible: This app stinks! I’m literally trying to search for the motorcycle gentleman that lost his right arm and his left arm is injured as well. I wanted to donate to the GoFundMe page but I can’t find it on the app. Y’all need to UPDATE this horrible app!!!!
32. [R89] 1/5 · US Search: Why does the WSOC-TV-TV app not have a search feature?
33. [R163] 3/5 · US Where's the active weather Radar: The new design looks great but where are the interactive radars and the hourly forecast?
34. [R17] 5/5 · US Too bias: Please keep it free and without ads!! Please remain neutral on reporting, no political biased views, please!! Let our Police do there job, lots of your news makes it out that they are the “criminal.”
35. [R50] 3/5 · US Fake news: Joe Bruno is biased towards dems. Mark Harris was treated very unfairly. Most all of your reporting is leftist politics when it is local, national & worldwide. You are biased in favor of democrats, gays, baby killers, etc.
36. [R95] 1/5 · US WSOC-TV only supports democratic and left wing views. J. Trump.: Fake News station! Their weather is more accurate than their news!
37. [R106] 1/5 · US Biased Towards Democrats: WSOC-TV, along with the Charlotte Observer, are very biased towards Democrats rather than being impartial. Also, some of the News Articles remain on this site for days or weeks without being replaced by something new. Please stop sensationalizing weather events as they’re invariably made more of than they are actually. Causes people to fear, panic and rush grocery stores.
38. [R49] 1/5 · US Unusable/ Awful intrusive ads: Content disappears while reading it. Ads move around and have invisible tappable areas that trigger the ads when you do not intend to tap on them. Horrible app development practices.
39. [R25] 2/5 · US Review: You write an article and only give us part of the story and end it with a statement that this is a developing story and to check v bc later for detail but that’s usually the end of it. Never hear what actually happened.
40. [R51] 1/5 · US Basically unusable.: Links to “continue reading” an article take you to subscription only pages. The ads below every single article are often very gross: earwax? graphic images of belly fat to advertise weight loss??? Come on. Stories are repeated so often, sometimes my feed has 4 articles on the same topic. Not to mention half the time my page goes completely blank while I’m in the middle of read
41. [R60] 1/5 · US Failed: App failed to load after latest update 8.4.4 on iPad with 12.5.5 Still unable to load app after 8.4.4 update