WDBJ7 News Reviews

by Guy Named Larry

It’s amazing you people care so little about what your viewers want. You can’t tell me you can’t find someone to design WDBJ7News so it actually works! Then there’s the pop up ads, oh my gosh! What a bunch of morons you must have running your app design and internet department. A few years ago you had a very good app, I could go to settings and select only News stories for my area alone. Now it’s so unorganized it’s aggravating to use it at all. I’ve deleted it and then because I wanted to have local News, I’d go back and reinstall it, but it’s no better than before. You’d think with all the negative reviews you get, you’d fix it, but I guess you don’t read them, because as I said earlier, you don’t care. It’s disappointing that a News station that’s been around as long as you have can’t do any better than this.
Enjoy you whopping 2.5 star rating!

by RB014

Too many alerts and too many ads. Too many alerts for minor things. “Someone dropped a gum wrapper today in Lynchburg.” Big Breaking news. I don’t live in Lynchburg or other “x” city and don’t care what happens there. Shutting everything down. Next step: remove WDBJ7News .

by Edsel F Talbert

The moment you click on the icon WDBJ7News crashes on my iPhone 12 pro.

by WahooBrad24

WDBJ7News hasn’t worked for several months. I’ve deleted, and re-added app. Also disabled ad-blocker and VPN and WDBJ7News still doesn’t work.

by PreviousViewer

Was bad enough to have to close an ad every time I wanted to see news. Now I have to endure a complete video before seeing breaking news! UNACCEPTABLE!!! Will change to another news outlet!

by Nicole13313

Ever since I updated WDBJ7News it will no longer work i redownload and redownload and still nothing I haven’t been able to use WDBJ7News in over six months

by Rogerh999

WDBJ7News is one of the worst streaming apps I’ve ever downloaded. When you click on Live Stream, it plays a commercial, making you think it’s going to stream live and after the advertisement it says live stream not available.

by Carmaleigh

Plays same news over morning, noon, evening then again next day. Showing CNN Fake news during the Sunday morning news at 6:34 am watch from my phone as couldn’t pick up channel on TV. Don’t worry changed to channel 10 which is on my side. See ya!!

by Iwasrobbedagain

Crashes as soon as it opens. I really don't want to watch commercials before I open the news or weather.

Please go back to the old app. It worked great.

by Dave0001954

It is bad enough when you have to click past an ad to look at WDBJ7’s online app, but now they have added a ridiculous video ad that has to be viewed. WDBJ7News stories often are incomplete and have grammatical errors. Also some stories promise follow-up, which never happens. I am seriously considering discarding WDBJ7News and trying another source for local news.

by Stand Clear 1 And All

When you open it there is a Joe Biden campaign add wanting you to sign your name to his side of the far left. Stop tricking people with this add or any other add. Should be a half star rating. Too many apps out there for this bull crap. Remove it or I’ll remove WDBJ7News altogether. It’s obvious that news7 is democratic. Fake news at its best. Report the terrorists attacks in our cities by our own people. People are dying. WAKE UP!!!

by PentecostalBro

Great news and I enjoy keeping up with the latest in breaking news via the notifications. I find the ads very annoying. Almost like you’re trying to play a “Free Game” on the AppStore such as CandyCrush where you have to watch an ad to proceed. I’m sure you get lots of funding locally and have sales teams that could incorporate local business into a softer ad approach. Thanks for your consideration. This ap might get deleted soon from my phone should this not change.

by Nkl53

I use to use WDBJ7News all the time to get my news. I stopped using it after the update that now requires you to have your location on to open it. Why does a news app need to have my location?

by Whoopsidaisy86

Lately when I have a news alert pop up that I want to read more about, I can’t because when I go to open WDBJ7News it just sits there with the little circle rotating and never opens...

by ARenee1685

WDBJ7News has been basically unusable for the last 1-2 months. Every time I open it to look at a news story. The list of stories pops up for 1 second and then the whole app shuts down. I’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing. I’ve tried on WiFi and data signal. Seems to be a problem with WDBJ7News .

by No Remote Start In VA

Crashes as soon as I open it or freezes. 😢

by Toniembailey

WDBJ7News constantly shuts down! I go in, X out the ad, click on news, it opens for 2 seconds and then the whole thing closes out. It has been doing this on and off for months, but the last few weeks it has been constant. Guess I’ll have to try one of the other news apps.

by RLT51

Too many ads, news not posted in order. Get a breaking news alert and go to WDBJ7News you have to scroll thru old news to find the breaking news. As you scroll you will find news from two days ago before news from this morning.

by Dakotaluke

I was looking for an email address to respond to story content, since I am not on social media. WDBJ7News is very helpful, giving good news and weather coverage generally. I am concerned about two stories today re: kitten and puppy abuse. The point of such stories about animal and human abuse should be the punishment. Otherwise, the story just gives criminals bad ideas.

by AKitaKaT

Useless! This asp was once out used to the model

by Degill7994

Doesn’t work since last update

by Shooter11234

I don't even watch your news videos because I'm not going to sit there and watch a 30 second ad every time I want to watch a news story. Plus, if I rotate my phone during the video, the ad comes back on for another 30 seconds. Place your ads at the top or bottom of the screen, don't let them interrupt your news stories.

by Tomg24137

Just downloaded the new app. Already I see a problem, I see no way to search for articles. For example, I wanted to find info on New York primary results and see no way to search for it.

I went back into to app and found the search feature, however no result ever posted, nor did a message that no results were found.

Just because something is new and looks different doesn't mean it is better than what it replaced.

by Frustrated1.0

I used to love WDBJ7News and checked it everyday for the latest news. I've done my best to overlook all the grammar issues and typos, but come on people...do you even read the write-up before submitting it??!! Most of the errors could be caught by my fifth grade child!!!

Now I've started noticing that WDBJ7News isn't updated with current news stories for days! For example, it's December 27 and several articles currently published in WDBJ7News date back to December 23, and no, there have been no updates on these older stories!!!

Looks like I'll have to start tuning in to WSLS 10's app in order to get up-to-date news stories. So sad!

by Someguyinthe315

Very biased

by Staci6839

Down load the new app and started to get to many alerts! I even changed it to no alerts " unchecked the green slide" in WDBJ7News and I still receive them. Every time I remove the receive alerts it puts me back in the green to receive them! Way to many ads, from the time you open WDBJ7News tell the time you close WDBJ7News .

What happen to the world news?

Plus Facebook is the thing of the past, stop trying to get us to like you on it. I don't know anyone who uses FB anymore.

by Matt24442424

There are several great features in WDBJ7News. I love that it allows me to use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. The only issue is there are spam ads that say I have won a 500 dollar gift card. If the team looks into this issue and corrects it, this would be a five star app.

by Cmyers2003

There are too many pop ups and you can't X out at times. I want news not adds.