Spectrum 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. [R1] 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.
2. [R10] 5/5 · US Weather Radar is Excellent: I really like your interactive radar especially the history/present time view and the projected one time forecast which in my location have proven to be remarkedly reliable. Great job!
3. [R38] 5/5 · US Beautiful Weather: Thoroughly enjoyed spectrum news, and local stories of daily updates and weather alert alerts on this app! Thank you for putting this together for us amateur meteorologists out there! Donna Marie aka Quirky_1
4. [R65] 5/5 · US Useful!: The app is great, especially for weather updates. Last year during hurricanes, house hold isp was out with power, having cell access to weather was clutch. Good work, Spectrum!
5. [R4] 5/5 · US Great: I really like Spectrum News. Updates throughout the day
6. [R22] 5/5 · US Spectrum news: I appreciate the daily news from spectrum. It is always up to date and concise. Thank you
7. [R35] 5/5 · US Informed: Love how it gives me up to date information
8. [R47] 5/5 · US Best Online Source for Local News: Peruse this almost daily for going-on in the City. Since I defensively do not read national news, this is great for just reading about the City.
9. [R12] 3/5 · US OK News: Slightly Better than fake news and no irritating ads. And you get local weather. The app has a simple clean layout and is a breeze to use. The best I have found. Thanks Spectrum.
10. [R78] 5/5 · US Spectrum News app is where it’s at !: SN app is my go-to for literally everything I need everyday from news to weather. The app looks so nice!
11. [R50] 5/5 · US Dependable balanced news: Let me start by saying that I depend on SPECTRUM news for a balanced professional report on the topics of the day. Errol Lewis and the team of Spectrum reporters and analyst do not color their reports based on their own political views. This fact based approach in reporting has become challenged in the current political climate. BRAVO Spectrum News for reporting the FACTS
12. [R66] 5/5 · US Great News: I like the way they do the news Without much bias
13. [R85] 3/5 · US Crashes: When I tap on a notification the app opens and then crashes ( closes) or it freezes now 2/13/25
14. [R146] 3/5 · US PiP crasher: Unstable connection, especially if reduced to PiP. Very likely to freeze and crash. If PiP is interrupted in any way, (1/2second signal interruption; hit pause; headphone/earphone falls out; phone call; alert/alarm) PiP instantly ends and closes and it takes more than half a minute to restart the live video in any form. In full screen it may freeze and lag behind before continuing. T
15. [R157] 3/5 · US Please update this app !!!: The app live stream keeps freezing when the station goes into commercial breaks. Please update.
16. [R233] 3/5 · US Error with app: Fix the stream stopping every 15 mins!!!
17. [R3] 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
18. [R42] 1/5 · US Not actually “news”.: The local stories have not updated in weeks. That’s not technically what one thinks of as news.
19. [R52] 2/5 · US Always old news: Here we are at 4pm on Sunday and not a word about anything that’s happened today. It’s all stuff from last week. There was a shooting in Kentucky earlier today in case you missed it. A State Trooper was shot. People at a church were shot. The shooter was killed. 🙄🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️
20. [R97] 1/5 · US Old news: It’s December 4 and the date for today’s news update is November 22! Why should I even look at this app?
21. [R7] 1/5 · US Creepy news host: What’s with that guy who hosts your news? Keeps talking about gop lead shrinking. Is he part of the voter scam too.
22. [R30] 2/5 · US Bias: Spectrum love for democrats is made so obvious in the news.
23. [R45] 1/5 · US Bias: Spectrum News seems unable to breathe a single word absent bias against President Trump. Almost every sentence conflates fact with opinion. It seems your writers either don’t know how to report information distinct from opinion or, they think all of us out here can’t tell the difference. I’m beginning to believe that almost everyone who writes in the public square has this thing that has com
24. [R55] 1/5 · US One sided articles.: Your news articles are rather one sided including your news network on cannel 6 news.
25. [R28] 1/5 · US Waste of time. Always a problem, either you’re logged out, don’t have the absolute latest version: One STUPID app. Every time I use it makes me log in again. This app does not retain my login status, waste of my time. Very poor design.
26. [R61] 1/5 · US Anthony: Absurd we have to keep signing in each time to read a local story.
27. [R20] 1/5 · US R: Can’t connect says disable HTTP
28. [R40] 1/5 · US Won’t open: It tells me: HTTP Proxy not supported.
29. [R94] 1/5 · US Http Proxy Unsupported: Cannot use the app as it keeps telling me my device is connected to the internet using an http proxy. To use the app I need to turn off the proxy and try again. Went into settings/WiFi/configure Proxy and it was already turned off. I tried changing it and saving the changes and then changing it back to off and saving it and still nothing.
30. [R143] 1/5 · US No longer works: I was able to live stream spectrum one news on this app until about a week ago. Live tv refuses to load. I’ve restarted my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled the app and I am still experiencing this issue.
31. [R54] 1/5 · US Don’t live in Columbus: So what good is weather in Columbus if I live in Toledo?
32. [R86] 3/5 · US Lack of Local News: Where is San Diego news? We ARE NOT LA! We have our own government, our own sports, our own issues. Lack of San Diego specific news is very disappointing to say the least. It seems you think we are part of LA. On the contrary, we are the third largest metro area in the state of California. It’s way past time for Spectrum realizes that!
33. [R187] 3/5 · US Nothing unique or local about it: I downloaded it because it was sold as having a community connection and local news. It looks like nothing better than any of the other news outlets pushing the biggest stories, the most popular crap. Meh.
34. [R25] 3/5 · US Doesn’t appear organized: Lacks sufficient detail and hard to follow; just “not-well-put-together” writing.
35. [R29] 1/5 · US Poor Performance: A lot of times you click on a story on the app and the story is not available to watch or read. There are a lot of times you open the app and there aren’t even stories to look at and read.
36. [R2] 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
37. [R116] 1/5 · US No access for Spectrum Business customers: Blows my mind that they block biz customers from using the app. I spend almost $400/month and get this message: “We’re sorry, this app is unavailable for Spectrum Business customers”
38. [R95] 3/5 · US Cast to Samsung Smart TV: Up until 30 days ago, used to be able to cast via Air Play to my Samsung Smart TV. No longer the case. What gives? I don’t have Chromecast.
39. [R150] 1/5 · US News app no longer available: Since March 2023 I had spectrum news and was able to stream spec news on all my tvs. All of the sudden it stopped working today and I’m told I wasn’t able to stream since I’m only a spec Wi-Fi customer. I’ve had it over a year with just Wi-Fi so as soon as I’m setup with Verizon WiFi I’m canceling spectrum for good.