Knoxville News from WBIR

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. [R27] 5/5 · US GREAT REPORTING: 10News keeps me in “The Know” with the Top News Stories in Knoxville and surrounding areas!!! “Thank You 10News”!!!
2. [R34] 5/5 · US Being informed: You want the news headlines, being informed quickly with important information? Here’s the place to see it
3. [R36] 5/5 · US Great Local Coverage: WBIR-TV app offers great news coverage for the Knoxville metro & East TN area. I use it and the WBIR Weather app quite frequently to check on the local news, especially when it’s breaking news that might not be on the TV station until the next broadcast.
4. [R40] 5/5 · US Great News App: Love this app and it's alerts.
5. [R4] 5/5 · US Lawn care 101: It’s a great app. Very reliable whenever it comes to rain and in my business it is very important to keep up with the weather. And it’s great when it comes to keeping up with the latest traffic news.
6. [R7] 5/5 · US Best channel in Knoxville: I love watching the news and always follow the weather with Todd Howell however, I do not like who is in charge with your Facebook posting. It’s more opinion than facts. WBIR is still number #1 to me.
7. [R10] 5/5 · US Honest and classy: Thank you WBIR for keeping the news fair, honest and classy. BIGGEST thanks to Todd Howell. What a guy! I truly appreciate his Facebook scripture posts!
8. [R23] 5/5 · US News and Weather: Great
9. [R8] 5/5 · US Welcome to my home: Having come from another state, I knew I would have to get to know the people/ who come into my house everyday. I'm glad to welcome ya'll! We will do this journey of life together. Thank you for keeping us safe, but keeping us informed.
10. [R26] 5/5 · US WBiR - best for local news.: Always like watching John & Robin, Abbey & Heather. Plus the weather staff, Todd, Cassie & Rebecca. All are very pleasant, professional, easy to listen to, which when all combined makes WBIR so popular. Love the theme “from the heart”.
11. [R50] 5/5 · US Todd Howell, Katie Inman: Having lost trust in the integrity of National news reporting, now I ONLY watch WBIR for the news. Todd Howell and his weather team are the BEST! I feel as if the anchors on WBIR news are doing their best to report the news without adding in their own personal opinions to the story. Katie Inman is a ray of sunshine, always smiling, and does a great job!
12. [R5] 1/5 · US Newest update sucks: Radar crashes the app every time it’s completely unusable
13. [R13] 3/5 · US Glitchy: Glitches and freezes a lot. Not very user friendly. I just want to get on and check the weather. Also, the pop ups at the beginning are annoying. I liked the old weather app better..
14. [R22] 3/5 · US Pretty OK APP: I enjoy getting local news alerts but don’t enjoy the app freezing up all the time. Not sure why this happens regularly
15. [R57] 1/5 · US Getting worse: This app has become useless because it will not communicate to the server. Takes a very long time to load and often not at all. The independent weather app was fantastic! Why is it gone? Where did all the white men go?
16. [R19] 4/5 · US Too many commercials: I’d watch this if you could get past the pops and commercials
17. [R33] 3/5 · US Saturated with Ads: For a news app, it’s covered in ads. I look to my local news station for credible information and coverage. But I can’t access a news story or click on an app alert without being required to watch a series of ads first. This is especially frustrating when trying to watch a live broadcast. Additionally if you scroll through the top stories, towards the bottom you start to see ad
18. [R39] 2/5 · US App is fine, ads are not: I don’t particularly appreciate having to watch an ad before I can watch the severe weather live video…might want to reconsider this.
19. [R9] 1/5 · US Miss the old weather app.: The old app was used friendly and useful! This new app takes forever to see the weather as you have to jump through hoops to get there. The radar itself is fine, though I feel it is no where near as good as the old one. Seems that they’re so desperate to share news of little importance as opposed to true weather. Make a separate app for weather like before please.
20. [R16] 2/5 · US Bring back the weather app!: There's a reason I stopped watching TV news. It's just as bad in the app. Only got it for the weather information. I don't want their horrible sensationalist news, I just want weather.
21. [R20] 1/5 · US No specific weather app on iOS.: I want weather only.
22. [R24] 1/5 · US Miss weather app: Used to have a nice weather app that no longer exists. This one is not very user friendly and not nearly as good as the previous weather app. Big step backwards.
23. [R121] 3/5 · US No more alerts!: I love being able to watch live news, but I only want weather alerts. Even after disabling all alerts except severe weather, I keep getting different news updates.
24. [R128] 1/5 · US Stop the Notifications!: I only want to be notified of the topics I select. Email after email to support for both the app AND WBIR goes unanswered. This is the very reason why I deleted the app a few years ago. Now, if we want to know of school closings we are forced to use the app. Either support your app or remove it!
25. [R129] 3/5 · US Overall good app: Overall this is a good app. The only thing, which is a big deal to me, is the push notifications. I don’t have any topics favorited, but still get multiple notifications throughout the day. The only notification I want is school closings.
26. [R145] 3/5 · US Fix Notifications: Please please PLEASE. Fix your notifications settings. To be fair, I’m not sure if it’s the app or the operator who is tagging stories. I was tired of receiving depressing stories sent to me all the time, so I specifically went into the app to turn things off. Unfortunately I still get updates I don’t want. I don’t want to turn off all notifications, I like having important loc
27. [R12] 5/5 · US Liked it better before update: Not user friendly. Harder to navigate
28. [R163] 3/5 · US New version still needs some work: The font size on the front page is too small. I changed the settings on my phone and still I cannot read it. The other negative is the sport scores is not real-time and easily accessible on the main page. In my opinion,I like the previous app version best.
29. [R6] 1/5 · US Content: I am a loyal follower of WBIR. I enjoy the reporters and the news team. However, I have noticed that WBIR have given more coverage to Republicans in the upcoming elections. I don’t know if this is due to lack of participation from the Democratics or is this bias. It has really bothered me. I know this is a Republican state. I am a Republican, but not MAGA. I would like to know why the dis
30. [R14] 4/5 · US Unbiased: Now is the time for local to news to be the ones to tow the journalism line… WBIR needs to make some bold moves to bring us UNBIASED news.
31. [R18] 1/5 · US The app is awkward to use and not up to date.: WBIR news has gotten so bad and left leaning . Everyone I worked with always watched WBIR and now no one I know watches.
32. [R35] 1/5 · US Mostly useless: Unless you’re a University of Tennessee Knoxville sports fan, you should look for the local news elsewhere. Sports reporting dominates every facet of news in this town. Eye roll.
33. [R32] 5/5 · US WBIR review: Timely, succinct, free, local, I enjoy checking in daily.
34. [R43] 3/5 · US Where’s the old weather app?: I very disappointed in this app. I used the weather app all the time. This new app is problematic. The previous weather app was simple and very useful. The new one takes to long to get anywhere or get the info you want. Please give us the previous weather app that was only weather back. When I need the weather I don’t have time to go through all the other pages.
35. [R47] 1/5 · US Extremely disappointed: You want to watch ads or commercials this app is for you. If you’re looking for news, you need to find another alternative because this channel does not believe in just giving you the news you have to watch the ads and who has time for that I am no longer watching channel 10 news or the app, completely disappointed, unreliable, and misleading
36. [R108] 1/5 · US So many ads: This app is garbage, and will show a 30s ad on ANY story you click on. It’s simply not worth it to sit through an ad that is a third of the length of the entire segment.
37. [R140] 1/5 · US TOO many ads!: This used to be my go-to app for Knoxville news. Now when I try to read a story there is a large ad every few lines, usually a repeat of the same one or two. I don’t mind a single ad but when an article is interrupted 4 or 5 times while an ad loads and takes up screen area, sorry but it’s time to go to another local news app that respects its users.
38. [R175] 2/5 · US Crash central: Crashes EVERY time it's opened then it will load on reopening. Slow. Worse since “update”