Didn’t watch local news, but KREW 2 is my now my go to news channel for non political news. Real news without the “happy news” that used to be local news channels thing. Tom Sherry brightens my day.
I habitually watch an 11 pm news program, mostly for the weather update. KXLY has been my choice for quite a few years. When Katerina was introduced as a substitute weather person, I was unimpressed, but decided to see if she could grow into the job. But, after several weeks, her weather information presentation remains annoyingly inane. I’m sorry to say that I’m starting to evaluate other channels, searching for meaningful weather presentation.
We listen to KXLY news most every day. We like the news team. But the app is just ridiculous. Hard to navigate to any story. Press on top stories and you get one sentence for a news item. When you touch a story you should be taken to the entire piece! And then you get to hear the report. I can read. I don’t want to hear the report. I want to read it while not bothering anyone with my phone blaring some news article.
App jumps around too much when you look at “more stories”. Sometimes it is ads loading and taking up their allotted space, other times it is just trying to scroll and you are suddenly back at the top of the page. Other local news apps don’t do this. Simple problem, have started to decrease use of this app because of it.
This app is very frustrating to use. You try to scroll down to the stories and every few seconds or so it jumps back to the top of the page. It makes it almost unusable unless you are only interested in the top story on each page. I just look at their web site in the browser instead.
There is no way to only have “breaking news” notifications. It’s either no notifications, or all the notifications. And they send dozens of completely useless notifications throughout a given day. It is unfortunate because I would like to get my news from KXLY, but now I have to go somewhere else
I read through this website every morning during breakfast. My only complaint is that I wish the stories were dated, especially the weather reports. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which days the weather report applies to, because old reports can sit on the website for days.
As of yesterday your weather page simply wasn’t functioning. Not the first time one or more of your links kicked me out. With all respect you need to up your game.
Even typing this review, the screen is blank! Constant loading, refreshing, every other segment is an ad, have to keep re-scrolling down t through stories to get to older ones (keeps kicking you back to the top of the page). Makes me want to throw the phone down. Awful app.
wonderful app, great to have up to date local news. always been a huge fan of KXLY and their continuous excellent news coverage. keep up the great work and I will definitely be recommending this application! Has never failed me once!!
This would be a fine app, I was giving it three stars before I went on and was assaulted by a pop up ad. Shame on you KXLY. I know you need money but don't be intrusive about it. Also: the "Irresistible" category (my favorite) is now gone. The stories all try to have pictures even though they don't have an actual photo (we see stock KXLY logo) I like the new weather alerts and school closures feature however, which earned you the extra star. The old app was 4 stars, remove the pop ups, and put back "irresistible" and condense the stories back together and this app could be 5 stars. Until then, I'm shopping for a new news app.
I appreciate the news being updated more quickly than other local apps. I understand print media isn't KXLY's focus, but for the love of grammar, please proof read the articles before posting. There are so many errors it makes me question your credibility. I'm not expecting perfection, but at least get the correct version of their/there/they're.
The best news app because the alert link always takes you right to the story. You don't have to search their news page to figure out which one is the story. Nice job.
This is by far the best news app for Spokane. Up-to-date and informational. Had a competitors app first. News was rarely updated. Be sure to download the KXLY weather app too!
Very great app. Nice clean layout and very reliable on weather. I think it would be nice if you can add the seven day forecast. Sometimes I wake up too late to see it on TV. I believe it will help out.
I don't normally do reviews, but this one is bad enough I had to comment. The app Crashes and frequently locks up on my iPad and iPhone. KREM is a much better app and runs smoothly without any issues. I hope KXLY fixes the issues, as I like to get my news from multiple sources...
App was a lot better before one of the updates...App now has pop-up ads that are a royal pain. Also, KXLY is 2-3 days behind on updating their app with the news stories
No way to get current local news - I don't check an app because I want 3 day old news. And full screen pop-ups? I'm going to see what my other local station apps look like and delete this one. Shame. Been using it for years.
North Idaho news articles are old and ignored, so that another article about how it's "snowing outside" can be written for Spokane news. If you want the latest its necessary to go to the main website, very unfortunate, and I'll pass.
Your app was very good until you included the interruption of pop-ups for solicitations - very annoying. I used to love this app as a resource for news, weather, and information. I am one more pop-up away from removing it all together.
What is up with the unchristian full page advertisements? Our family tries to look at the news and is bombarded with ads. Bad on you!!! What's up with the full page advertisements anyway?
I am not a Facebooker------my wife is. She gets news waaaaaay before it gets to my app. Kinda like, oh ya we need to put it on the app. And weekend news reporting is really lame.
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