WGME 13 Reviews

Update: if I could write a fair review, WGME13 would be in negative numbers by now. All day it’s sent me election update notices and when I click on them WGME13 opens to a page that shows a play arrow and says “we’ll be right back” OR it just sits there showing the play button. Worse than useless because you could forget it, but it bugs you with notifications and then won’t play what you clicked.

hate WGME13. You get an alert, that you want to read, yet when you click on it you just land on their "front page." What you clicked on is almost never included in the stories that are there. SOMETIMES, you can search and find the story, but most often, it's just not there. I end up googling it and reading it on another local news agency's site.

App works poorly, design is terrible !The commercials play well ! Junky App..

They updated the ads so before you read a story it closes WGME13 & brings you to the Internet to look at this tiny banner. Seriously? So irritating

It barley loads. Worked for about a week. Then I can't use it anymore. News 13 rules but you guys really need a new app layout and op system. For now I'm stuck with channel 6 and there GIANT 3 day forecast. Woo hoo.

The layout of the homepage is odd and includes what is basically spam, as well items that haven't been updated in months. That would be ok if there were not intrusive ad banners at the top and bottom of every page one opens. The Press Herald app is marginally better so the search for a good local news app continues.

App is terrible. It is sluggish, random adds will pull you into the web browser, or App Store, without pressing anything. Rotating the screen to watch a news video will restart the patriot subaru ad you just spent 30 seconds watching. None of the screen control functions work. I can’t swipe from left to right to go back a page. Just awful.

I have tried to get my sound to work I have deleted it off my iPhone and re applied it and I still have no sound it worked for a couple of days my speaker is on but no sound volume is up still nothing I really would like to have the sound

deleted Portland's Channel 8 upgrade because only local news required video watching and other news was non-local. Now this- can't go to landscape mode and I cannot get beyond the tutorial to the news and other features. More and more of tv apps are similar format with same problems- same designers evidently. Probably delete this one too!!

Needs a lot of improvement!! Notifications bring you to a entirely different story at times. Once your in a specific article the back button/ arrow is an absolute nuances to engage back into the main page, make it bigger so we don’t have to tap it a hundred times!!! Whoever writes the reports into WGME13 should definitely use spell check and editing before sending it off. Just makes your organization look bad with misspellings, especially for a news organization!! Don’t fire anyone, just fix it!!

Ugly and lousy. You can tell they threw a bunch of cheap web developer to simulate an iOS app and you end up with bizarre behavior: you open WGME13 and the web page asks you to get WGME13 from WGME13 Store! The worst is that this ISNT A WEATHER APP: it's a NEWS app and I keep getting push notifications for local murders. Finally, finding the weather is just a joke. Too many clicks, ads, and an ugly web based app. Disjointed, ugly, inefficient. Already deleted.

Updated to the new version today and it takes forever toload, it appears that they have integrated video with every story so when you hit the news tab it tries to download every clip before WGME13 opens. Useless And a waste of 3g/4g/LTE bandwidth. Beware if you are on a limited data plan. WGME offer us an option for either text only or text with video until WGME13 gets refined properly it imho is useless.

I have used the WGME weather app for years. This latest update made the map feature basically useless. I have tried to follow storms and watch the future possible tracks of storms and this newest version is terrible. I used to be able to tell my kids exactly when and where rain/snow/bad weather was going to hit their area and this new version just doesn’t work. I was tracking the latest thunderstorms and the map had the storm directly overhead and I was outside, it was sunny. Just completely unreliable.

Needs landscape mode. Channels 6 & 8 can do it, there’s no excuse for WGME13 not being able to do so. The fact that this hasn’t been done yet proves the laziness of WGME13 maker

The new app is no longer a dedicated weather app. Not happy at all. Will be deleting, and looking for a new weather app. FAIL!

Really disappointed with WGME13. No wonder it has nothing but bad reviews. I’m wondering why nothing has been done to fix and improve it by now? Will stick with Facebook and just going straight to there website for weather updates. Again really disappointed.

I have to get my news from Boston. IOS Apple TV is not supported by channel 13 maine.

WGME13 is very generic with much less balanced news & good weather reports than WCSH. Plus you get political merchandise ads and opinions from the viewpoint of Sinclair Broadcasting.

Whoever is in charge of updating sports doesn't do their job. Sport stories stay on WGME13 for weeks at a time. The Kentucky Derby was over a week ago and is still out there. Meanwhile, the Celtics were were eliminated and the Bruins advance, but no mention of either of these local favorites? Wow.

Notifications don't bring you to the story that matches, just the home page. You then must hunt for the article.

App screen does not allow you to rotate view

Story line regularly runs wider than the page. Resizing or scrolling does not help.

The alerts don't take you to the story that the alert is previewing.

There is a very frustrating problem with WGME13 and I'm avoiding using it. You get a notification that is interesting but when you try to open it, it just opens WGME13 instead of going straight to the story. Please fix this!

Hello,
I would be great if WGME13 layout rotated when a tablet was being used in landscape mode.

Nice app if the weather was even close. We've had high 80's to 90's this week but this forecast says 74! It does't even agree with their online forecast, which was correct. Looking forward to an update.

Keeps me up to date on local news and is pretty slick for what it's trying to be.

Seems decent except the radar doesn't load.

I love tromp

Great app, very well thought out. Usually I'm a WCSH devotee, but I do love WGME's app.

It has the complete weather forecast (via video). Great to be able to get the complete forecast without being at my house. This alone makes me give this a 5 star.

Everything else works well

Use it on my iphone and ipad thanks wgme