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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. [R1] WHIO News 1/5 · US Worst news app ever: I’ve never seen a worse app on any platform. It’s nothing but ads that block what you try to see, stutter, stop you reading a story, and just generally get in the way of anything you want to do. Whio used to be my go-to. Not anymore.
2. [R9] WHIO News 3/5 · US Advertising: To advertising ads when trying to look at site
3. [R16] WHIO News 1/5 · US Awful: Pretty much just a terrible app. Loaded with adds posing as news stories. Videos play automatically, even after turning off that feature. Alerts of news stories pop up as banners, but when you click the banner, half the time, there is no such news story. If you want to know about school and business closure mentioned on the app... You need to download their weather app that is also basicall
4. [R34] WHIO News 1/5 · US Bloated with advertisements: Content is good. However, so bloated with advertising that it’s unusable on my iPhone.
5. [R6] WHIO News 3/5 · US Average performance app: The app often paints the screen in a stuttering manner, loading some elements, then stalling out, then loading more text and photos, if it doesn’t freeze entirely. It makes you wonder if it’s loaded with all sorts of background scripts, trackers, etc.
6. [R11] WHIO News 4/5 · US It has developed some bugs: It used to be great, but now, I can’t forward any articles on the app to anyone, and the videos don’t work half the time.
7. [R12] WHIO News 3/5 · US App: Sometimes the screen goes blank. Trouble downloading stories. Sometimes when you scroll the story you pick won’t load. Won’t let me submit the review
8. [R21] WHIO News 3/5 · US App is glitchy: App is glitchy. Freezes and stutters. Videos are spotty and often won’t play, or play double with slightly offset audio.
9. [R3] WHIO News 3/5 · US Update: Often you run stories that are old. Same with the weather. I suggest you update more often. Thank you.
10. [R13] WHIO News 1/5 · US Too many ads: The WHIO app is awful. The news is old and no one seems to know how to proofread! The lack of coverage on sports has been nonexistent. There should be an easy and in your face way to access WHIO of news in real time and it is difficult to find. It seems to be easier to upload storm/weather photos than it is to report accidents etc.
11. [R18] WHIO News 3/5 · US News Announcements: Why do you keep posting the same stories over & over? It’s ridiculous! And a lot of the sports posts stay on for days instead of posting new ones.
12. [R24] WHIO News 3/5 · US Review: Sports section is not up dated daily same thing over and over again
13. [R4] WHIO News 1/5 · US Horrible UI/UX and News Coverage: As a mobile developer I can attest to many of the comments on the user experience front. You receive a notification, tap on it, you are brought to the app but not the story, instead ads are everywhere takes forever to load and the auto playing of unrelated content is absolutely horrible. Good luck finding the arrival of the deep link isn’t valid. Don’t waste your
14. [R5] WHIO News 4/5 · US Ok: I only have one problem with app I get alert about something and then when I go to it it’s not there
15. [R20] WHIO News 4/5 · US Love Coverage - App Wonky: I love the news content. But once I click the Live story at the top, it’s difficult to navigate to other stories on your App.
16. [R19] WHIO News 2/5 · US Worst weather forecast: Britley called for 3 inches, but we didn’t get 3 tenths.
17. [R25] WHIO News 1/5 · US Weather temperature reading for Dayton..,: …grossly inaccurate.
18. [R10] WHIO News 2/5 · US No Coverage: June 4 Medicare Fraud Meeting in Columbus. FBI, State Attorney present. $50 Million illegal funding discovered in Medicare payments in Ohio!
19. [R35] WHIO News 4/5 · US National news: No mention of the Baltimore bridge tragedy in National news. Need to do a better job reporting daily national news! Need to update sports section. Past events stay on for many days.
20. [R38] WHIO News 1/5 · US Cannot find answers: I understand why you would want to celebrate Sierra Burton as she died in the line of duty. But did everybody forget that Matthew Yates also died in the line of duty in the same time fame? But he is rarely mentioned, IF at all. I would like to know why one person is being celebrated & the other person is being ignored. Kalona
21. [R51] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Terrible source for news.: The headlines are always over the top and misleading. Usually notifications are for stories that are either old or irrelevant.
22. [R53] NewsBreak 3/5 · US Frustrated: Too many advertisements. I keep seeing sources i don’t want to see
23. [R55] NewsBreak 4/5 · US There is so many messages: There is so many messages that they send you
24. [R58] NewsBreak 5/5 · US Rate: Awesome news
25. [R66] FOX News 4/5 · US Site freeze after viewing article: Kind of annoying to have to re-open app after reading articles.
26. [R68] FOX News 1/5 · US Not working: App does not work very upsetting, the wheel keeps spinning. This is on an Apple TV. I am unable to authenticate a cable subscription. Everything else works but live tv. This is the only app that has this problem.
27. [R70] FOX News 3/5 · US Problems: Lately I have to keep signing in to comment or react to comments. Comments won’t load, the emoji reactions disappear, the blocking option is missing. WTHk
28. [R72] FOX News 5/5 · US Fox News: Love Fox News get top news everyday first thing I do at 4 am see what’s going on The crew is funny great group of people it makes my day before I have to go to work
29. [R79] Spectrum News 1/5 · US Where’s the weather information: This app is horrible like your news channel is we are having a bad storm and you guys are reporting news that isn’t necessary at this time not good
30. [R80] Spectrum News 5/5 · US Love this!: I like being able to see detailed weather information like the dew point and I like watching the live video feed as well.
31. [R81] Spectrum News 3/5 · US Your website is a low quality embarrassing for a big corporation: You should be embarrassed at the low quality of this website so many old stories that never updated headlines written from a day or two before the in accessibility to the visually impaired just so many factors that make this an embarrassment to accompany with so much money and such a low level website
32. [R83] Spectrum News 5/5 · US Great: I really like Spectrum News. Updates throughout the day
33. [R93] 13WMAZ 2/5 · US What happened?: I used to love the weather radar. I used it no matter where I was. Even in Europe on deployment. It was always the most accurate and easiest to understand. Since the update, I haven’t been able to access the radar not a once. I’ve got an iPhone 12Pro Max. Is my phone just too out of date for it? The weather portion won’t load, I can’t get my current location to stop saying Macon (I
34. [R94] 13WMAZ 5/5 · US Weather: Always keeping us informed
35. [R95] 13WMAZ 3/5 · US Bad update: I used to go to this app for the interactive map. But since your last update it’s terrible. Can’t see half the map because there’s a block with precipitation levels almost in the middle of the screen. Not to mention a big blob with the current temperature in Macon, which is completely unnecessary since I’m in Milledgeville.
36. [R96] 13WMAZ 1/5 · US Horrible app: This was a good app to use to get weather forecast but now can’t see anything. I don’t want to have to watch a video to get my forecast. I would rather read it or see radar myself. I would have given no stars but it won’t let me. Please do better
37. [R107] MS NOW 1/5 · US Incompetent: You people are THIS CLOSE to being deleted for all the ridiculous opinion pieces you allow from a bunch of people who don’t know what they are talking about. Thankfully your hosts aren’t as ignorant as the people you publish opinions from
38. [R108] MS NOW 5/5 · US Great App, but….: Awesome User Experience except that there is no dark mode. Can you add a toggle for dark mode in the settings. Thanks
39. [R109] MS NOW 3/5 · US MS NOW LIVE ON THERE APP ONLY: Why can’t MS NOW show there live broadcasts on there app like NBC news does instead of going thru a subscription TV NBC News have a live take every time you watch NBC News
40. [R110] MS NOW 2/5 · US No live shows!: I recently dropped my streaming service, so msnbc went away. I thought that would be ok, because I new this app existed. So, I downloaded it and all I can find is snippets of shows! I can’t watch a full show the day after it was live, I can watch a half hour of an hour long show the next day, but then it switches to a different show! Not even close to what I thought it would be!