I have had this app for a long time, BUT I really wish they would do something to fix to no warning stop in broadcasting. It’s not timed to a commercial break, just smack in the middle of the weather, or sports, or regular newscast. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, looked for updates, and (sigh) downloaded competitors apps so I can watch a full news broadcast uninterrupted, but the problem still exists. WNYT is my favorite, PLEASE fix your app!!!!
The short and uninformative articles are not updated frequently enough, particularly on the weekends. They aren’t spell or grammar checked, though they always take the time to boast about how all 4 sentences of the article were “posted here first”. The radar only works when the skies are clear, and goes completely blank anytime there is any precipitation, which I suppose is at least predictable enough to tell me if I need to close the windows. The app freezes all of the time because it’s so bogged down with ads and it needs to load those first. Today, a school day at 8am, they are still showing the live weather forecast from 22 hours ago.
You can even watch it from New York City through the App. Never been to Albany but enjoy seeing the local events and news throughout the capital region. Sister station WNBC rarely reports about the state capital and I do not like to see Albany far apart from the New York Metropolitan Region.
I love the features of this app, but it needs some improvements in the streaming video portion. If you want to minimize the screen to multitask, the video stops playing in most cases and the screen goes black. Clicking on it to make it larger again and play does not work so you have to go through the whole process of turning it on again, including listening to the ads (which are too repetitive) again. Also, it is not mirroring properly with appleTV.
Like the app. Would love the app if I did not have to wait for ad in between EVERY story. Was always a fan of 13 but can not deal with ads. Even an ad free version for minimal charge I could rate it a 5
I love watching the news every morning until I go to bed best news ever everything’s I need turn to channel 13 news they give you everything that’s going on give them 10 they are great people Jodi from Schenectady New York ❤️❤️❤️😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ they are the best
I love this app. I get all my local news on my phone and most importantly I get the weather. News channel 13 has been a part of my family’s nightly watching my whole life!
The ad at beginning of news is off putting after receiving an alert of interest. Then the ad for videos instantly after continues a sense of disconnect with what viewer wants to see. Content, however, is good with few grammatical errors.
The app has good content but when you are scrolling through the constant ad updates cause the content to go up 3 to 4 articles and you have to go back down to read the last article you were reading just to see it again
I enjoy this app, but when you click on a news story and the commercial immediately starts to play; it’s just too much. When you’re in a quiet situation and you want to read the article, the video or commercial bursts through your phone. And you’re left scrambling to lower the volume or pause it. They need to fix that.
App freezes all the time. And as much as I hoped the local news would actually focus on important topics, they’re just out for likes and clout like the rest. Quite sad really. When your entire job is to read off a teleprompter and not do any of your own fact checking, it’s easy for people to question everything you put out as truth.
The new app has a better presentation for the news, but the weather features took a hit. The WNYT app fabulous worldwide weather and locational services (weather “where you are now,” or pick a city, or “your location pinpointed on the radar”) are gone. That’s a serious loss.
Two major irritants; the videos automatically start to play with no way to turn it off in the settings and when you scroll down it will shoot back to the top.
This app actually changes your settings without your permission. I’ve declined ‘breaking news’ notifications and other notifications repeatedly but the mysteriously get turned back on by this dishonest app. DELETED!
App sends constant notifications saying things like “open now to read this story” when clicked this opens to the app home screen not the story mentioned. Waste of my time.
Your reporters should be ashamed of themselves for not following up and doing some professional investigative reporting on that bully Cuomo!! They musta been scared of him.
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