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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. [R6] 5/5 · US Love it!: A great app for getting local and national news.
2. [R16] 5/5 · US Thank HGyou for all your news reports!🤗: Your reports are always letting the public know what is going on in our areas🤗
3. [R20] 4/5 · US Appreciate ch 13: I appreciate reading the important and up to date weather and news. If I want more detail I can always google another source. Ch 13 is concise and pretty accurate.
4. [R21] 5/5 · US WZZM: So glad I have this app! Keeps me up to date with everything. I wouldn't be without it on my phone! Thanks WZZM!
5. [R14] 5/5 · US Snow: If snow is in the forecast today You can also count on 13 to give you the best forecast possible
6. [R18] 5/5 · US Alerts are important: I appreciate getting the alerts as events happen.
7. [R29] 5/5 · US Great info: I’ve had the App for a while now . My notifications are daily and informative . Top stories .
8. [R30] 5/5 · US Quick & Easy: Great access to news quick an easy . On time notifications!
9. [R1] 1/5 · US Ui issues: Would be nice to see the entire list of articles without having to tap hold and slide screen up because advertising is keeping the full screen from being displayed
10. [R8] 3/5 · US Website/app: I don’t want a pile of ads popping up when I’m trying to read an article. I can’t stand that you guys don’t edit your headlines before you post them because there’s always misspellings in them And quit sensationalizing all the news you start to sound like entertainment tonight
11. [R22] 5/5 · US Too many pop-up Ads: I love WZZM13 app & on FB, it just seems like when I am trying to read a story or find something ads continually pop up.
12. [R23] 2/5 · US Ads are ridiculous: So many ads that make the page jump around. Also, this review pop up….I was just trying to scroll through the news and accidentally touched the pop-up while doing so. Very frustrating. I use wzzm13 app less because of these things.
13. [R9] 1/5 · US App is glitchy then they recently brought back Jimmy Kimmel: Deleting this app due to glitches, it has unfollowing and will not support again due to bringing back Jimmy Kimmel!!
14. [R11] 1/5 · US Does not open: I had this app and all of a sudden it quit working. I deleted it and reloaded it. It will not open !!!
15. [R32] 1/5 · US Doesn’t Work: Ever sense the last update I couldn’t open the app.. I would use it two or three times a day. But I don’t even try anymore.
16. [R33] 1/5 · US Loading: Within a few seconds of trying to load the app shuts down. Always was a poor app
17. [R3] 1/5 · US Downgrade: The “new and improved” app is not user friendly. It is hard to find things. The weather is a mess. The radar does the same loop over and over instead if a true 12 hour loop.
18. [R36] 4/5 · US It’s nice having local news, but the design is unintuitive: I love having my local news in a separate app, as it’s guaranteed relevant to me, but navigating inside the app can be a tad frustrating unless you’re only interested in the “featured stories.” Also, the weather section is slow to load and I’d rather not have to download the separate weather app for basic radar functionality.
19. [R69] 1/5 · US Difficult: The old app was much more user friendly. If I can’t figure out how to use this app and am somewhat tech savvy, how are my aging parents supposed to figure it out? Where can I find the school closings? Where is the search option? So many of he good features are missing. I think I’ll delete the app and just use the website until they fix it and make it functional again.
20. [R71] 1/5 · US 13 oYS: Horrible website to navigate!!! You can NEVER find anything. It’s like somebody sat down and actually tried to make it difficult. I thought WZZM was better than this!!
21. [R2] 4/5 · US Screen won’t rotate: Why won’t my screen rotate anymore? This is beyond frustrating! Please fix this.
22. [R27] 5/5 · US Our news: We love to hear our local news. Only two things that we believe that you can improve are: Ludington and Scottville are in your viewing area and don’t get mentioned in weather. We had about four inches of snow in the last storm and you said that we didn’t get any, just a dusting. Ha, ha. Also meteorologist, Michael Berrens says “heading” 10 to 15 times during his forecast.
23. [R37] 1/5 · US Worst weather app possible: I lost over $3000 today. Thanks WZZM for the worst possible weather news possible. People should believe just the opposite of what you forecast. Thanks for putting a lot of farmers further in debt.
24. [R95] 3/5 · US Stop the popups: Every time I want to read a breaking news or a headline I get popups. I like TV13 but get annoyed at popups and slow to load the page.
25. [R109] 1/5 · US Lousy app, bad links: The app takes forever to load, and far more often than not the news link I followed doesn't point to an online article at all. Good thing they are better at reporting news than making a useful app - because this app isn't.
26. [R114] 1/5 · US Load time is terrible: I could open wood tv, huffington post and cnn before this app would load. If you can fix the load time, it would be a great app
27. [R116] 3/5 · US Too Slow To Load: I've had this app for awhile and since it has been changed, it has become a lot slower to load. I think the format is pretty good otherwise. I'm a big fan of WZZM and I had contacted them about the problem but nothing was done.
28. [R24] 3/5 · US Updates?: Why are there not daily updates? Seem to be on about 2-3 day basis?
29. [R35] 2/5 · US No longer a reliable news source: WZZM use to be the standard for news in west Michigan, now most of their stories are opinion pieces. People are not looking for someone to tell them what to think about the news, just the facts.
30. [R46] 1/5 · US Biased: I am deleting this app. I wanted an true independent news agency locally. Perhaps their bias is because they pull national stories from other agencies but they choose to do that. I will be moving to another network.
31. [R47] 1/5 · US Annoying: Got sick of the incessant updates on covid counts. All doom and gloom and no positive updates. WZZM13 used to be my favorite channel but over the last couple years and more importantly in 2020, they became an extension of the Governor’s executive branch. They have forgotten what journalism and news is and just regurgitate what they are told to say by the government.
32. [R15] 1/5 · US Notification issue!: I am not getting any university of Michigan football notifications PLEASE FIX ASAP!
33. [R86] 1/5 · US I get no alerts: I have this app. I used to get weather, news and school closing alerts. Now I only get occasional news alerts. WHY WHY WHY? I don’t even care about news alerts, but I need school and weather alerts. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the app and that hasn’t helped. Any ideas? Can't you fix this issue? I’ve resorted to using a competitor’s app to get the weather and school cl
34. [R97] 1/5 · US Closings list is terrible: As a parent one of the main things I want from news app is closings. The ads make it hard to even find the closings and they seem to get them way after other Chanels. I’m deleting this app today.
35. [R7] 5/5 · US Improvement needed!: The website too often boots me off, especially when trying to view the national news. The news content is good, but please edit your spelling and grammar, especially the titles. My wife and I appreciate the positive approach that the news team uses whenever possible, and Brent Ashcroft's features are great.
36. [R113] 2/5 · US Second rate: Terribly written articles that are usually incredibly vague and hugely lacking in detail. I can almost always find an error. Articles are typically updated late. Design and ease of use is great. Weather is typically wrong and changes frequently throughout the day. Example: weather says it's cloudy and 70 and it's really 100% sunny and 82. Old news is kept on without relevant upda
37. [R41] 1/5 · US Ads!: I cannot believe how many ads are on your app and website.
38. [R94] 1/5 · US Too Many Ads. Download WOOD TV 8 Instead: I can’t watch the stories without having to sit through commercials.
39. [R49] 1/5 · US Doesn’t work!!: This app does NOT work! It simply freezes. I delete the app and re-install it at least 2 or 3 times per week. I’v tried shutting down my iPhone 11 and restarting with the same freezing issue. I have removed and re-installed it TWICE today. I want to be hopeful it will work, but am giving up. BAH! Please fix this app!
40. [R90] 1/5 · US Needs better functionality: App crashes on opening. Closing app and reopening several times eventually gets to the home page but crashes constantly when trying to browse through it. iPhone X and latest updates.... the app needs serious work on functionality. The website is ultimately where I have to go for their news.
41. [R64] 1/5 · US Too many ads: There are so many ads constantly popping up that it is almost impossible to read any news articles. They go full screen automatically, blocking the articles. The also could do a better job of shrinking the initial size of the articles so you don’t have to scroll constantly because you can only see one at a time.
42. [R77] 1/5 · US Ad popups ruin a great app.: The news stories are great but the popup ads make the app impossible to use. I finally had to uninstall it as I got tired of the ads.