KSL.com News Utah Reviews

by LSEcon

KSL app has taken a nose dive in terms of quality and professionalism. If I could give 10 negative stars, I would. It feels as if the editor of the site comes to work late
in the mornings and then parrots stories from other sites. Case in point, from several to choose from, snow storm earlier in the week that closed several schools. Other apps/websites had the story about schools closing up and “running” several HOURS before KSL felt it necessary to post the information. Quality, informative, timely, professional....all of these descriptors CANNOT be used in describing KSL’s app/website. Suggestion - possibly hire people that know what they are doing?

by AntiCNNNBC

KSL has swung so far left over the past few years promoting and subtlety focusing positive photos and stories on leftist views and negative stories on conservative politicians or candidates. It used to be subtle and now it’s brazen. I guess that’s what happens when so much of your news staff hold liberal views and you get your news stories from NBC, CNN and AP which represent liberal values and views. I used to think of KSL representing conservative values...not anymore. What happened? You love stories of Mitt Romney attacking Trump, Ben McAdams is our hero of standing up to Trump and on and on you go. You’ve become more of the DNC election megaphone. I’m not a radical far right person, but I’m not blind and it not just me. So many people I know are complaining about the very noticeable shift in political reporting on both KSL TV and your website. Hope you make it back at least to the middle some day. We used to watch KSL news every night at 10 pm...not anymore. It’s a conservative bash show.

by News This

I’ve been wanting to share this for a while and since the request just came up on my phone I decided I would make a brief comment. I have noticed that the content in most articles are becoming less and less about quality and more and more about popularity. The substance of the articles is also been slipping rather than cover things accurately a trend of sensationalism has entered into Ksl noticeably. And I would also say that so many articles that come from the Associated Press that are printed by Ksl are so far from accurate that it’s disappointing that Ksl republishes them.

by Unscarredcfh

KSLcomNewsUtah itself is ok, however don't try to have a debate with anyone on the comment boards if your views aren't in line with the LDS church. The moderators are extremely biased and will not post your comments even if they conform to all the rules. But if your comments are pro LDS you can just toss the rules aside. I thought news outlets were supposed to be unbiased and against censorship. Edit- pretty sure there's at least 1 mod who just deletes my comments without even reading them because it happened twice today. They basically said that congress collecting a paycheck during a shutdown is a slap in the face of every American and both got deleted. I think one mod took offense to me saying Joseph Smith was a convicted con artist with some magic rocks. Anyone wanna wager that I'll get no developer response? Lol

by Redgreentoad

This comment has to do with the streaming news. There are continuing problems. We get a black screen, and no picture of news or no sound. Then other times we get picture and see the news but no sound of what's being said. Now it jumps in the middle of a story and goes straight into another story that already started. Been doing that several days. Even after updating for bug fixes it still does it. There have been different issues in the past. I know problems can happen and do happen but good grief it just seems it shouldn't happen so many times continually. I don't know if it's an issue from inside the studio. Or if it's KSLcomNewsUtah . But it gets old and frustrating.

by Bravo_2_clear

If your looking for AP or CNN news just go there instead, cause 90% of KSLcomNewsUtah is from them anyway, you’ll get occasional local stories but that’s it.

The comment boards are a complete joke and the moderators censor you even if your comment is within the guidelines that ksl has issued, unless your name is pioneer47 and your comment is completely liberal it won’t get posted. They post stories from liberal news sources which get a rise from people only to go on the comment boards to become armchair captains and express their opinions to get censored, very infuriating..IMHO the comment boards should be taken off if all wont get posted none should be. You’re creating a dangerous environment.

by JefferyT51

I only want to receive alerts for actual “Breaking News”. No interest pieces or pop culture nonsense. Luckily KSL knows how important that distinction is and abuses the “Breaking News” category and notifications for any time someone sneezes, is in a minor traffic accident, or remembers a celebrity exists. I do not care. “What? Will Smith is banned from the Oscars temporarily for breaking rules? Well, I’ll seek shelter and turn on the radio to wait for further instructions.” Truly, a good use of “Breaking News”. Now if you excuse me, I need to go attend to some Breaking News. There’s an incredibly urgent matter in my kitchen of a piece of bread needing to be toasted! More at 6:00.

by Rymidaho

Your coverage of the recent protests has really turned me negative on KSL reporting. I get it that you feel the need to give “voice to the underserved” but enough is enough. The folks paying the freight in this country are being pilloried constantly. The underserved deserve help if they are working to better themselves and their community, not just play the victim role. How about you tell the whole story not just the sensational. By the way we are all victims (even white guys), but most of us move on. Journalists have become “herders” to a particular point of view not reporters. The covid 19 reporting has been over the top in instilling fear. Had a couple mask shame me the other day while I was walking my dog on a remote forest service road early in the morning with no one around for miles. (They were in their car wearing masks). You and your kind (the herders)have contributed to unprecedented economic harm to millions of the same underserved people you claim to care about. Ps I am over 65 and feel it is my responsibility to isolate not the public’s responsibility to isolate from me.
How about you show some courage and put some perspective on this whole Covid thing and take some of the fear mongering out. KSL is better than that,I thought.

by MrBungle74

Like the title says. Comments are silenced if anything against the Mormon church is mentioned. Seeing how KSLcomNewsUtah and entire station is ultimately owned by the Mormon church I’m really not surprised. Everything has to have a tie into the Mormon church, mormon church news and Mormon church comments. Just because the Mormon church says something doesn’t mean it has to be front page. However, it does when the Mormon church owns KSL.

News stories are biased. Free thought is discouraged in comments. They have their favorite Mormon commenters and their comments stay. Others like mine aren’t. Even if it’s not a Mormon related story.

KSL needs to remember not everyone in Utah is Mormon. In fact, church numbers are falling like flies yet KSL still can’t be inclusive for everyone. If you don’t follow the sheep, KSL will ignore you.

KSL is extremely corny and some of their stories are flat out unnecessarily written with terrible fact checking and fact gathering, however I know people have to justify their jobs

KSLcomNewsUtah itself is excellent. Easy to use and well thought out unlike their actual news stories.

Absolutely any way they can tie the Mormon church into a news story, they will. It’s quite sad really. I’m switching to 2News as their app has gotten way better than it used to be and I’ll be uninstalling this biased, Mormon centric app today. Too bad, I’ve been using it for years but I can’t take mormon news anymore. I really don’t care.

by Maximus_Prime007

KSLcomNewsUtah uses probably 90-95% of its articles from the Associated Press, not KSL news itself. Sadly the Associated Press claims to be unbiased in politics but it’s proving more and more to be leaning towards the liberal side. With that I don’t feel like I’m getting the full truth. I did not vote for Trump but I feel like the AP has a massive grudge against him. They left out a lot of his speech to the UN yesterday to make it look like America is the “bad guy” and that we don’t care about others. The other problem too is that the AP fees more like “opinion news” than real news. I know KSL has capable writers, do your own job instead of using other news agencies and pass it off as your own!

by ZE-phi

Good content, fresh and easy mechanics! Hence giving KSLcomNewsUtah two stars. However, I honestly can not give it the remaining three stars. The frustration comes with the streaming of any video. The video works perfectly for the 30 second of the sponsored commercials. But, I can not stream the actual video I wanted to watch, high school football games (or any other streaming videos) are the same! And yes, I have tried different WiFi locations and using my LTE data.

I would hope that with the new technology advances we could actually get the consumer what they want to watch, not just the sponsors.

Look forward to your solutions.

by Adog123

For years KSL has been my absolute favorite news app and news organization. I don’t even live in Utah any longer and still use KSLcomNewsUtah daily. Then COVID came and 6 months in they are still sending COVID number notifications every signal day! These numbers are NOT breaking news and should not be disturbing app users every afternoon. It’s ridiculous, just have a news story we can click on to look at the numbers if we want to get those like every other news app out there. So I reluctantly turned off notifications. However, with notifications off these daily COVID number notifications are still coming through. All the breaking news notifications have stopped but not these. This needs fixed, please! I really don’t want to have to delete KSLcomNewsUtah . What I would prefer to see is the ability to keep on breaking news notifications and turn off daily COVID number notifications. I really still want to receive breaking news notifications but want to turn off these pesky Covid number notifications.

by Flyinrt

KSLcomNewsUtah is fine. The news on the other hand is bery biased on most stories regarding Trump. I usually skip those stories because I know it’ll just be a bash Trump session. Information is always left out that would show the actual truth. The titles of many of your stories (not just regarding Trump) are meant only to draw people in. They are sensationalized and don’t represent what you will actually read. The truth is, I only go to ksl news because it’s already on my phone. I try to stick to the local stories only although if you’re willing to lie (by omission) for some stories, they all probably lack the full truth.

by Clever6347

KSL has developed an app that has created a horrible comment section that is a train wreck. I try not to read the comments, but I sometimes just have to see. The moderators almost never post my comments but allow some truly horrible stuff to get through. The current moderator roles or format needs to change. I am almost ready to end it with KSL and the biased, LDS centric view. Not a good news feed with poorly written stories. The weather is good. The rest, C- at best.

by Spelling Bee Champyun

You need to stop allowing videos to automatically begin playing. Even when you turn the videos off multiple times they will continue to play without being user launched. Extremely annoying, especially when audio starts blaring from your device in a quiet environment! (Like church) Please stop this asinine feature. I swear on the life of my dog I will never buy products from any of your advertisers who bully their way into my newsfeeds. It’s a joke KSL. Stop it!

by Peacockmaster

Five stars all the way. The only thing I dislike is that when an article is updated with new info, especially when it’s enough to change the headline, it doesn’t transfer over to Facebook as an updated article. It shows the original article and headline, but when you click the link it pulls up the updated information.

by Towelsnapper74

I've noticed the last week or so KSLcomNewsUtah is closing unexpectedly every few minutes when navigating. Timing for me seems to be correlated with ios 14 update, but may be unrelated. I'm sure you are working on it, thank you for the great news service KSL provides. Will update to 5 stars again once the bugs are ironed out.

by Hannemann316

I love the KSL app. I like to get a brief review of all the news articles and things related to the Salt Lake and Utah County. One of my favorite features is the travel times which helps me gauge traffic when traveling up and down the I 15. I also have the Deseret News app which allows me to read more in depth articles. But KSL can sum up the daily news and less than 5 to 10 minutes of reading. A great resource!

by BigBri62

I really like that this news site is up to date with the latest news as I live in an area of Saratoga Springs that I'm not able to get the free T. V. so this is my source for news.
Always accurate and to the point.
Thanks KSL for being there for those of us on fixed incomes and can't afford cable or satellite T. V.
This is the next best thing without adding waste to the land fill by not having a paper copy. I can view it on my terms and time.

by Alpenander

As a retired “Senior Young Married Couple,” my wife (of 47 years) and are serving our second overseas mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Why would parents of four adult children and 16 precious grandchildren (ranging from 2-21 years old) ever due such a crazy thing? Because “the world is flat!”

With KSL, Face Time, Skype and Magic Jack, we are in Utah even though we residing in Brazil, the Caribbean, New Zealand or Timbuktu.

Thank you KSL for keeping us connected with our Intermountain place of safety and refuge from the storm of the modern day world. With your link to our Utah community, it is easy to physically be helping others in faraway assignments.

We love living in the “flat world” as long as KSL keeps us linked to our Utah roots!

Ray & Marilyn Anderson
Humanitarian Service Specialists
São Paulo, Brazil
😁😇👍🏻🌴

by TechDad

This KSL news app used to be terrific but I no longer use it much. KSL pushes their sponsors so aggressively that it is almost impossible to avoid an add. And when one pops up there is no way to terminate the add early. You must watch the entire add. Read four (4) news stories and you will see the same stupid add three times. I became so sick of it that I now use a different app as my news source.

by Spambassador

I’m giving 3 stars now and will update to 5 based on developer response. I have been using the KSL app for many years as my go-to source for local news coverage. Has been working great until now with my iPhone XS Max it is very difficult to access any of the top bar content i.e. next to the notch. This needs to be fixed.

by Nanaeskimo

I do enjoy watching the KSL app in the mornings for traffic, weather, and top stories. It is irritating that I have to go out of KSLcomNewsUtah , then back in again at 6:00 am to continue watching the same programming with commercials, which causes me to miss that traffic and weather report.