Local 3 News

You could use a darker font on the app. The light gray is hard to read.

My family has been a loyal WRCB-TV family for many years. And like others, we’ve rolled with times and changes. One expects a larger company to buyout multiple smaller companies and rebranding to be done. Even changing a name to something “simpler for customers” is totally understandable. However to change a design and layout so much so, that the news one would normally see isn’t even there is going one step too far. To not include some of the national and world news makes absolutely no sense, in that it directly effects our state and therefore our city. A pebble thrown into a pound causes ripples, in-turn the entire pond is somehow affected. Our city is a ripple that isn’t being acknowledged on this new rebranded app. For that matter, local news is hardly present as is or rarely updates. If you have to swipe up, down, left, and right just to simply get a story that you find is actually a day old. It doesn’t really give you a reason to want to go further. The weather portion, while I can say is definitely better in that it’s more detailed, it often glitches and shuts down the app when you try to see the 7 day forecast. I know much time and effort were probably put into this update, but unfortunately the goal was missed. Wish you all the best, but I guess it’s time this family does some rebranding of it’s own and finds another news station with an app that actually gives us the news.

The app is just…not good. But even that could be overlooked if it weren’t for the terrible news coverage. Just a handful of news articles posted per day, and those are filled with typos, grammatical errors, or even complete omission of words, which makes the articles difficult to read. I’m no expert, and I didn’t go to journalism school, but you would think all these obviously recent grads they have hired, they would know how to properly write a news story. Sad. Uninstalled.

The ability to have a floating screen is great. You can create a window-in-window, move and resize it. You can slide the window off to one side, removing it from the iPad’s screen, but allowing you to continue to listen to the live broadcast. It’s very helpful.

This app is dysfunctional in its layout, gotta scroll up, down and sideways. There is so very little NEWS in the app that it really is not worth calling it a news app. They cover one or two stories a day, if you're lucky. And, the stories that they do cover are usually a day or more old. WTVC at least makes an attempt to publish information (if you can ignore the bad writing /editing). Watching the live show on channel 3 is better.

This new app is awful. The old one was easy to navigate, had tons of news articles, wasn’t covered in ads, and the livestream actually worked!!! It’s a pretty safe bet now that when I try to watch the livestream of the news, I’ll just get a commercial, and then a black screen with no sound. I really missed Channel 3 news before the rebranding to “Local 3”.

Thank you for the efforts to improve the app. It now feels full featured and is definitely a great source for Chattanooga area news and weather.

I have improved on their weather app. But as for the rest of it I am visually impaired and their main app is not very user-friendly for those of us who need voiceover and other screen Raiders. And it is not very easy to find stories in general much less what you want to read about.

The app does a decent job of covering the top news stories, a little more difficult to find specific articles you may be looking for. Also I am disappointed at the amount of clickbait that they allow to be on the app.

This new app is terrible. It seems like they have given us the Beta version after having a great app previously. The weather is only correct one time a day. Have been loyal WRCB viewer, but these changes have not been for the best! Time to check out other options.

News channel 3 is my source for news but I hate this version of the app. It is not user friendly. The majority of the time the notification links fail. It is hard to navigate and not stable. Please fix this!

I have relocated to Jefferson County. I sure do miss y'all. Thank God for this app

Jumps straight to a story when opening the app. Have to shut down the app and reopen to get it to work. Miss the old version.

Since the update it is completely inaccessible to those of us who use accessibility features such as dynamic text and voiceover. Therefore, making it completely unusableTo the blind. I am very disappointed by this.

Stories are from CNN so I guess this is no longer an NBC affiliate. Get off your duffs and get back in the community and report on stories and breaking news. Actually write stories and stop googling for info, so lame.

Lack of live streaming hurts this app a lot.

Used to be so much better when it was WRCB. With the new rebrand this app has become borderline unusable. I’m wondering if this updated app was actually made by a child. It’s that bad.

Good way to throw away a brand they spent 35 years building. The new app is complete clunky and all scattered around. Goodbye WRCB. Hello WTVC. Highly disappointed with this change out of no where.

I’m removing the app, far too many commercials.why is this not being posted!

Fear mongering at its finest. I use to enjoy this app and found it useful but not since 2020. 90% of the articles now only pander to liberal news without ever sharing both sides of a story fairly. The constant obsession with Covid “numbers” is over the top, nauseating and ridiculous.