I enjoy the new format for the news. However, the weather potion doesn't give nearly enough details. They show a sun for 11:00 in the evening? I like to check the weather to see the percentage chance for rain etc. This gives no such information.

3 years ago, Debbie Dootle

Too many notifications

The app is good overall but there are way too many notifications. Sports and weather events show up in news notifications even if sports, Buckeyes and weather is turned off. I liked the weather notifications but not when they wake me before 7am. So I had to turn them off. Only emergencies should interrupt sleep. With all that turned off I still received 96 notifications in a week!

3 years ago, Formeruserofthisapp

Randomly freezes up/endless spelling&grammar mistakes

Works pretty well, but frequently freezes on home page not allowing any tapping on stories. Have to close out, re-open app and start over. Frustrating. Almost every story has one or more spelling, grammar or usage error in it. Most commonly I see typo kind of errors such as the -s or -ed left off words, things that spell check won’t catch. Other times completely wrong word usage or major spelling error. Does not project a professional, educated image. Makes it look like you have 12 year olds writing and editing the stories.

8 months ago, Real_TSwany

App is horribly user-unfriendly

I think 4 has overtaken 10 in the last decade for best news coverage, but ABC 6 and 10TV have a far and away winner with their mobile apps, despite their station owners sucking the life from their respective newscasts. I love NBC 4, but this app is riddled with performance-hogging advertisements and slow, unresponsive menus and scrolling. The feed is more like an embedded website than an actual app interface. Everything runs horribly and desperately needs rebuilt to be sustainable for a mobile environment.

2 years ago, Hjdkans

To many glitches/problems

Has news stories yes, but the app frequently (every time open it) freezes, doesn’t load, or videos won’t play. The weather portion on app is useless. It never loads and when does, if you try and look at anything it doesn’t work. Seems all the news apps for Columbus Ohio don’t work. It’s not just channel 4’s app. It’s 6 and 10 as well. I’ll give 10’s app some credit, their weather at least seems to work most of the time.

3 years ago, thbhu

Turn the sound off!

No way to cut off the noise. Frustrating, even more than the misspelled words. Back to Channel 10. And they won’t accept a one-star review by telling you every possible combination of letters is taken when you enter the required nickname.

2 years ago, Mj1269

Updates made app not work

Ever since the app was updated a week ago, I have had troubles using it. The app crashes in the middle of a story, you can’t get back to the stories if you click on a story. Now when you open the app, it says to swipe up to get rid of the ad but that doesn’t work and I end up having to close the app. If this doesn’t resolve soon I am going to have to look at other local news apps.

4 years ago, CorsairJim

Instant news

When on my iPad I receive news updates and have the opportunity to get on the website and read it.

3 years ago, picktown viewer

Least favorite site on phone

Do not like audio reports start without selecting...least favorite site to use

3 years ago, Randogirlz

Lopsided news

I get frustrated with NBC 4 because I’m often seeing items on national and international news stations about Important events in Ohio, that are not reported on by NBC due to party affiliation issues. I keep trying to come back to the site, but I’m Probably going to delete the app, again, because I can’t rely on it to tell me about the important issues in my state.

6 years ago, OSUPharmD

Good content poor format

Good articles once you get to them. Have to acknowledge or decline a Liberty auto ad every time you open the app before you even get to the content-annoying. Format change is not an improvement

2 weeks ago, iclnteeth

Doesn’t stream live news

I was hoping I could watch the local news live. It’s streaming from the evening before. Not what I was hoping since we canceled our cable and trying not to turn on tv with antenna and wake the kids.

6 years ago, JDee76

Format Change

Don't like the recent changes. Makes articles much harder to read. Seems there are fewer stories too.

3 years ago, get real 20

Lovefest

NBC4 has an ongoing love fest with Dr. Amy Acton and Governor Mike Dewine. These two are bumbling idiots who are so absorbed with their own fame that they are doing a disservice to the citizens of the State of Ohio. They are so focused on taking away constitutional freedoms and they don’t have actual facts to base their actions on. It is also very obvious how much the anchors at NBC4 have an personal agenda of trying to illegitimize the presidency of Donald Trump. Colleen Marshall is so full of contempt for my President that it is disgusting and it proves that the media cannot be trusted.

6 years ago, Ketah

I agree with "Confusing Format"

After update, found it hard just to tune into weather and supposedly updated weather reports.... Only use now for notifications in case of bad weather or breaking news, and Very Seldom go into the app. Better to use Internet site.

6 years ago, Oldster66

Latest news

I read this everyday to see what's happening locally and to get the weather. Like the live weather with storm tracker and that you are also including Meigs Co. as we also have a house down on the river.

4 years ago, Jollory

Okay

It was okay until they started automatically playing the videos when you clicked on the story. Very inconvenient when at work or somewhere else. Also, not as up to date as other local news sources.

3 years ago, Hostess9

Channel 4 News

News always current with a wide variety of messages given. Given in a timely manner. Clearly spoken.

6 years ago, Tparker606

Not easy to search

I like news alerts but stories are hard to find.

3 years ago, PI$$3D

Could be better

I use the app frequently to catch up on local and world news. The large number of ads is distracting and the app tends to freeze easily or shut down entirely. I’d be willing to pay for an app with no ads that worked reliably.

6 years ago, dbarr24

Confusing format

The new format makes it difficult to find the news and weather information quickly. It takes a lot of swiping and scrolling. Once I find the information, the reporting is great.

3 years ago, SyrCyclist

Constant crashing

It is easy to read beyond the thinly veiled biased reporting... when the app actually functions. However, frequently it does not. It is difficult to read the often sophomoric, poorly edited articles in an app that crashes the moment I attempt to open an article. Perhaps I should take this as an omen and look elsewhere for my news.

3 years ago, Micheledfaith

Ok app terrible ads

I hate the ads at the bottom of the articles. There must be a million ways I can tell if I have cancer and each one is laid out in an ad at the bottom of the page. Maybe they could find come classier advertisements.

4 years ago, love my buckeyes22

Hard

Too hard to find things not user friendly or I’m just not with it

5 years ago, MsHardscrabble

IMO NBC4 …

Excellent weather coverage. Top heavy on some crime reports. Great news staff and reporter diversity. Should include more grassroots stories. Columbus is a great community but low income community coverage is biased toward crime coverage. Please offer more hopeful stories.

3 years ago, judyschumpin

Living in Florida and missing Ohio, always check out your news!😎

3 years ago, rb217999

Still get Buckeye notifications even after turning them off

Why have an option to turn off OSU notifications if I’m still inundated with them after turning them off??

3 years ago, mm8100

Jumps to ad with sound

I used to love this app. But that was before it was updated to automatically play ads associated with an article. I’d like to just read the article, but that’s impossible now without listening to the ad while reading the article. Turning the volume down is the only way to avoid it.

3 years ago, Uterin79

Ads/news stories auto run

With the new update, the accompanying news story automatically plays with sound, whether you have your sound on or off. It usually plays with an ad beforehand, too, so you can’t shut it off, mute it, etc. I won’t be using this app or Channel 4 for my news anymore.

5 years ago, could not be more annoyed 12

App keeps getting worse

This app has way too many ads. The articles have huge links in the middle of them. Text in the articles randomly repeats. Videos don’t play consistently and when they do an ad plays at the same time causing the first 30 seconds to be unwatchable. Way to go.

3 years ago, treydilla

Notifications Broken

I have all notifications disabled except for weather yet I still get news notifications daily. Running most up to date version of iOS on iPhone 11 Pro Max. Please fix these issues.

3 years ago, nope8362794

Stop the auto video sound

Many of the stories have an accompanying video which auto plays with sound when you click into them. Super annoying. Let me decide if I want the sound to be automatic or do not make it automatic at all. Will probably delete because of this.

6 years ago, Buckey89

Better after update

I used another local app, but now with update this is my go to local news app!!

2 years ago, Dawg338

Constant freezing and crashes

Junk app, half the time it doesn’t load the text, won’t allow you to pause the video, locks up the page and you can’t do nothing but force close it. Have to do this several times in a row. Will not recommend at all.

4 years ago, Sig143

Radar

Giving 3stars because Radar never works when I click on play. Update on weathers and news great but radar not so good. Will someone tell me what I am doing wrong. Cannot play radar. Thanks

4 years ago, JimmA.

Great news app.!

Wonderful source of local news/info in a sleek format. Easily navigable to find what I'm looking for! Great news! We miss Mike Jackson!

5 years ago, Namppa

Weather App Lacking

The app is ok for news. But weather map doesn’t show accurate hourly chance of rain %. And future map only goes forward for one hour.

3 years ago, June flower

Crashes

This morning my phone crashed as I was attempting to read the news and although it was at 100% it restarted after several minutes at 7%. Not the first time this has happened and it is more than annoying

3 years ago, cc from wedterville

Missed “Today’s show”

I missed Today’s show this morning, why was that not aired ? I keep writing the nick name and you keep saying ‘taken ‘ which can not be right .

6 years ago, RRMPhoto

Good News

It is a great app for keeping up on the news for Columbus and vicinity.

10 months ago, DrJaymez

Stops audio from my audiobooks

Can’t read the news while listening to audible. Very frustrating.

5 years ago, Pc10000

Overall, not a bad app but

They are apparently trying to provide Facebook, Twitter, etc links that go on forever but don’t link to anything. So you end up scrolling and scrolling down to see if you are at the end of the article. Also, no way to contact the article’s author.

5 years ago, Trey Stephenson

Good but radar doesn’t work

Love the app but right now whenever I hit the play button on the live radar it says it loads but then nothing ever shows up. On iPhone 8 Plus

2 years ago, Leona_Rasalas

Terrible!

Was hoping for local news, but fine mostly advertising. This app does not work well on my phone or iPad. I have most news apps from my area and this is the worst. I will be deleting it. This app needs attention.

3 years ago, G Hesterman

Automatic playing of videos

I would much rather choose to play the corresponding video to the news story than to have it automatically play when I click on the article.

3 years ago, Kimgtk

Keeps crashing

Good news, but keeps crashing/freezing. Many typos, very poor for a professional news station.

6 years ago, iKristy49

Good app

I like to read the news myself. On tv everything is Breaking News hype, 5 min of commercials an 1 min of news. Thank for the app. OH-IO

4 years ago, Cbus Rj

Average web site

Too many ads getting in the way of the news. Some of the sections are not updated often. For as good as the NBC 4 newscast is, this website is disappointing.

5 years ago, DonnieUbanks3

Updates

The app is a bit to personalized now. Please could NBC4I use NBC Universal for there app developer please. Would it be possible to have a text alert system.

5 years ago, iOS 7 doesn't work!!!!

More ads than news

Absolutely everything has an ad first. Including launching the app. And not just short ads. Nope. Long ones. Just an annoying waste. WBNS did a better job.

Description

News has never been more local than in the palm of your hand. The NBC4 News mobile app brings you all the top stories from our daily broadcasts, as well as stories developing in real time. NBC4 (WCMH-TV) is Columbus Ohio's best source for Local News. NBC4 is Local 4 You with Breaking News, The Most Accurate Weather Forecast, and Traffic Alerts to help you on the go in Central Ohio! Get all this information with an easy-to-use layout in the NBC4 News App. Install now and you'll be a step ahead! FEATURES: • Watch video of your trusted reporters on the scene, and read revealing articles on what's going on in your community. • Plan your day and week with detailed weather conditions, live alerts of severe conditions, and an interactive radar map. • Optional alerts on breaking news keep you in the know. • On the go? Save stories for later to access at your convenience.

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