FOX 5 DC: News & Alerts Reviews

by Grimis411

I have used FOX5DC for years to watch the news while getting ready in the morning; however, it has been giving me a great deal of trouble. I have had various issues in the past with its functionality, but for the past two weeks, it has gotten much worse. FOX5DC keeps shutting down just after it starts streaming. Earlier, it wouldn’t play most of the videos, but they seem to be working today, which made me think the streaming issue would also have been resolved. Nope! For some reason, FOX5DC works just fine on my husband’s much older iPad which even has less memory. My iPad and FOX5DC have all been updated, so I don’t know the cause. If someone could help me solve the problem, I would greatly appreciate it.

by PapiCasey

I finally had to drop my review from three stars to one. Have any of the developers actually tried to live with FOX5DC? The notifications are buggy. The alerts have problems but even when I disable these annoyances, FOX5DC is basically useless for watching the live feed. Over the past year I basically have a 15% success rate getting the live feed to work. The commercials they try and make you watch are what kill the feed. Terrible job. The fox 5 news team is amazing and I love all the anchors. I'm a true fox 5 fan but FOX5DC is suboptimal and the developers have had enough time to get it right. I'll be switching my news team now because I have to get my news someplace.

by JD99Fraser

Downloaded 60 or more days ago and almost never a able to find the content I seeking. Weather links send one upon an endless spiral to link after link, while ever suggesting one to download FOX5DC ? Because, almost every link takes a user beyond the limited contents of FOX5DC . Receive steady stream of app notifications but most lead nowhere but dead links or to more suggestions to download FOX5DC ... I’m deleting right after providing this review. Fox5 is a dependable news provider, FOX5DC and your web page is the opposite of dependable.

by Celinenme

As others have said, you click on an alert and it opens FOX5DC but doesn’t take you to the story. The alerts also don’t generate a sound even though I’ve verified sound for the alerts are enabled. You don’t know the alert is there unless you look at your phone periodically.

FOX5DC is also very cluttered with advertisements in the middle of stories. I thought the apps for the other DC TV stations were bad but this one is just as much so.

by Lalalovelyla

When I click on a notification FOX5DC should open the actual story that I click on not open FOX5DC then open safari to the home page. This has me searching for the story amongst all the other posts. Also, why have FOX5DC if it's just going to direct us to the internet? So I'm not only waiting for FOX5DC to open I am also waiting for safari to open. It's cumbersome.

by BroRufus

I love Fox 5. I’ve watched Fox 5 since I was in my early 20s. I’ve had FOX5DC for several years and have made comments about the spell check and proof reading before posting and nothing has been done. It’s amazing that Fox 5 would allow these mistakes to continue. Spelling and punctuation can really have an impact on how the public views our news. It is, also, showing the intelligence of our school system and the managers of the department. I don’t have a college degree and I catch these mistakes in almost (or is it all most) every post I read on the site. I hope Fox 5 will hire a reliable QC to fix these mistakes soon!

by Bnett69

I have a few concerns with FOX5DC for news. I don't see the need to receive repeated notifications for the same news story within an hour. I noticed a tad bit of media bias in regards to the story's that are shown on FOX5DC. It is quite apparent as well the author of a lot of these story's often time injects a biased undertone in the articles they write. I have noticed as well the factual innacuracies in these reporting in terms of Race- Political- Historical. Overall it's ok for news but I would definitely gain information from various sources in order to receive an accurate account.

by Vinnie2_us

After you read the alert notifications the alert count won't clear.

Every story that I open from my notifications it automatically open in my web browser instead of FOX5DC . I don’t like that. None of my other does, not even Fox New, just Fox 5, DC.

by PrincessKacy

I really appreciate the content I receive on FOX5DC. It seems that I receive more notifications than I prefer but that may be because of some settings in my phone.
Keep up the good work!!

by JLo638

My only complaint is that very often, when you click on a news alert notification, it takes you to “live” news rather than the actual story and the “live” news is almost never playing anything.

by A Proud Grandparent

I am a little disappointed this morning though. There is recognition on the media on most national days of recognition, but there has been no news about National Grandparents Day... many will never live to acknowledge or be a grandparent!!!

by Jluv26

FOX5DC has a lot of delays in the past. Since they updated it I have no problems with it now. I moved to Florida a few years ago and I love being able to see all of the unique teams of reporters. The news teams give a fresh and diverse look at the local and national news story’s with a flair of personalities. Here in Tampa , it the same old non energetic, boring ,blond hair newscasters giving the “Only in Florida Type Stories. “ Feels just like being at home in the DMV using the Fox 5 app. Please add the smartcast technology to it so I can put on the big screen.

by Praise Tyme

I'm happy with FOX5DC . FOX5DC gives notifications quicker than the other national news apps I have. It has little hiccups here and there but it isn't anything major. I love FOX5DC and recommend it to others.

by RichRod1

I used to live in the D.C. area and I still have you're app. You're app is outstanding compared to my local news channel app here in Texas. I get many notifications that don't show up on my phone until hours later.
Keep up the great reporting!

by INTERESTED100%

Every day up to date local news and news across the nation; follow up news; close connections; on top of happenings around the world; long range caption; full and complete weather forecast and closures. Reaching out to children, the poverty stricken and the homeless. Truth about Donald Trump. Coverage of Donald Trump’s impeachment.

by My03Gifts

I am able to watch my favorite people in the morning. My nine year old loves you all as soon as she wakes up mom turn on... it’s already on Allison Seymour, Steve Chenevey, Erin Como, Tucker Barnes, Wisdom Martin, and of course Kevin McCarthy. I get update news, weather, traffic, and entertainment. I then with in my car for my daily commute. Fox 5 DC morning crew you all Rock in my book!!!

by Dan N C

Just wanted to say I miss my Fox Five Family after 30 plus years Love everything you guys do we had to make a move from the DMV area to North Carolina to help my brother and sister take care of my Mom which is my brith place I still have the fox 5 app so i still keep up to what’s going on and when can i watch live can keep up the good work 👍🏾😎

by Cry4681

It gives me information when I’m on the rode so I know where to go and how to get around traffic and what has happened and what the weather would be like when I’m not at home with my tv on at home and so and it gives me the important information on the news and the key facts of the news that why I have the fox 5 app 5 stars

by Maria Dorothy

Thank you for the professionalism you all display. Your support of seeking the truth is second only to your kindness to each other. Thank you for hitting on the stories that impact who America is as a nation and who DC is as a city. Do we stand for good, truth and beauty? Each of you urges the public to use truth to establish good behaviors, with courage, self discipline and, yes, a lot of cheerfulness!!!
Outstanding! Thank you!

by M.g.f17

This is a great app. I recently moved to Texas After living in DC for about 10 years and came to love the fox five team. FOX5DC allows me to keep up with everything that still going on in DC including live broadcast through FOX5DC . I’ve never had any problems with it. Shout out to the fox five morning team at 9 AM 10 AM👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽