TMJ4 News Reviews

by Isekknowledge

There are times when I open TMJ4News , and I find a black screen. App has its quirks.

by Sean Wallace

The developers of TMJ4News must be assuming its users are fools who don't recognize a real application from this polished piece of "you know what."

TMJ4News is nothing more than an encapsulation of the mobile version of TMJ4's website. Go ahead, try it, fire up TMJ4's website on your iPhone or iPad. Guess what, it looks the exact same!

Please, stop using UIWebViews to just display the mobile version of your webpage. Instead, go back to using some API/JSON/XML backend parsing engine feeding nicely designed UITableViewCells inside a real UITableView and not just HTML! If the primary motivation here was to simply display more advertisements without any additional features, consider that goal nailed.

There's a reason why you make an app and not just a mobile version of your website. The reason is you're going to take advantage of knowing what hardware you're going to be running on, what advanced features you are afforded in the form of a programming and UI environment, etc. Since TMJ4News is merely just a portal to the website with push notifications, you might as well call it just that.

I've been with TMJ4News since near the beginning because I like the journalism that TMJ4 provides, but even that isn't enough to keep me around any more. Forget it, I'm going to FOX6's app, it's beautifully designed and works MUCH better than this ever will.

by Dusoda23

I can’t even get TMJ4News to open, it crashes immediately. It was fine up until now. 🤷‍♀️

by Re-Pete

I used to love TMJ4News! I am not usually the sort of person to give a bad review but I don't understand how an app can take giant leaps backwards!! I still use TMJ4News a couple times a week so I guess ill give it two stars.

It used to be that you would go into the video section and just push play ONCE and it would play the local weather forecast without a single problem! Now go to the weather section, wait while it loads, Yes use my current location, wait while it loads, push play, (new play icon) push play again, loading, (new play icon) push play again, loading, 30 second BS political bashing commercial, and now I finally get to watch Jesse Ritka give me good news!!! All I want to do is watch the forecast and get a general idea of what the weather is going to be! I don't need it to use my current location just to tell me that Brookfield is going to be 2° warmer than downtown Milwaukee.

I'm sure someone put a lot of hard work into making TMJ4News but you really need to rework this entire thing. You could cut out 80% of the garbage and it would be simple and user-friendly. I can deal with the ads but they don't have to be so long and it doesn't have to be the same GD ad over and over and over!!

by Kkeener

I am noticing that some people are rating the news station on here. News...great. That is why I downloaded their app. App not so great. Downloaded it specifically for live updates on COVID-19. I get the update that they are live and click on it and it is clunky. Does not auto launch the live news conference. Sometimes I can NEVER get the live stream to open. JUST BAD.

by MMEK53

Seems they just can’t find any up-to-date news stories. They keep the same stories for days. They are never current. A lot of the stories are just junk. The extra star is for the weather. I like that.

by SuePQMelvin

I like your app, and I prefer your news over other local stations. However, the channel 12 and 58 apps allow you to skip the ads after 5 seconds. Your app makes you watch a 30-second advertising video before every news story, which is extremely annoying. For that reason, I hardly ever use the channel 4 app.

by Jeremy1069

Latest update crashes or tries to crash. iPhone 7 IOS 11.2.6

by Harlans MacBook Air

I want to love TMJ4News even more, however it does crash a lot. Annoying. Especially
on Weather videos.

by Franzmon

Great app for the iPhone. Sections are easy to navigate. You can get alerts on breaking news on your phone if you want them. I usually want updates on Sports scores or local weather and it is a handy app for me!

by Door919

Always great news!!

by Chris Sobye

I like it ,simple to use.

by NoName316

I wrote a review on the previous version and gave it 2 stars, do to numerous problems. But I am happy to say it now deserves 5 stars. Here is why:

1. The live stream is back! One of the biggest problems was that the live stream was taken away. It is now back!

2. Before if you wanted to send feedback or help, it took you to a Las Vegas news website. That has been fixed and directs you to the WTMJ website.

3. Crashes have been reduced. Although you will still get crashes every once in a while, it has been reduced.

4. The new weather improvements are amazing. With on the left screen a forecast, and video and on the right screen an amazing radar. Plus more.

Overall, I am impressed to see that you guys were able to fix almost everything in one update. And take time to read feedback to improve your app. Once again, great job!

by Mwm 1

Simple, to the point, factual, non-bias. Love it! Perfect for local news.

by Cabom

Always fair, with good writing and straight-forward presentation of material.

by Bonnie Jesn

I really appreciate the timely updates keeping me informed on important issues especially with this pandemic. Thank you.

by Raypegg

I love to be able to keep up with what's going on up where I used to live!!!
Thank you!!!

by Royal Doulton1001

This is a very informative news app. The content is well organized.

Update: As a result of TMJ4News and Storm Shield - I have now gone back to watching TMJ4!

by Racine Southside Tommy

Very informative. Really appreciate the hard work and dedication of the TMJ 4 news anchors and reporters during these challenging times. Thank you!!

Chris N.

by Sresje

We watch and read WTMJ4 every night. The only station we listen and watch every night for our news and weather! We know we will get the best of both.

by Colleenita24

Used to be pretty good. Now it's ad after ad, the scroll seems to jump around and stories take forever to load. Biggest issue, though, is the actual content. I can only assume that online new stories are treated as an afterthought. Left to interns. Who have been drinking. Stories often seem poorly thought out or incomplete. The other day someone posted a story about preparing for winter that referred to raking up "leafs". Twice. Are you kidding me? These are supposedly journalists. Downloaded the Fox 6 app that same day and I have to agree with the previous reviewer who said that's the much better local news option.

by Alisonjns

I appreciate getting the push notifications with important breaking news updates, but I hope you start thinking carefully before sending out an alert that has no effect on most people. Send me alerts when things will affect me, not when you want to tease ahead to a newscast. Also, when I do want to "get more details in TMJ4News " it's difficult to find, and sometimes the story has no more info anyway. If I swipe to open TMJ4News when the alert appears, is it possible to open the related story directly instead of arriving at the standard home screen?

by Sagan Lovely Arbus

Good app for iPhone weather

by Patty S Of Belguim

I have watched Channel 4 news for virtually my entire life. Their reporters are very concise and seem to ask all the questions I would want answered for every story.

The weather staff is very dedicated and , most times, dead on with their forecast. They are the ONLY ones I TRUST for my weather information.

The Sports staff does an INCREDIBLE job as well. They give me all the information I look for all the local teams. Thank

You can tell everyone at Channel 4 love the work they do AND who they work WITH. The TMJ4 app is very easy to use and find the information I am looking for. And I always look to the Storm Sheild App when the weather looks to be changing.

I truly am a TMJ4 fan for LIFE!
Keep it up and THANK YOU for all your years of providing all I need to know on a day to day basis!!

Patty Schmidt