3340 News Reviews

Apparently the “live broadcast” is not dependable. After the storms of last night, and me only having antenna for local channels, I went looking to see if there was a live broadcast of the local 33/40 TV. I really could care less about watching live TV on my iPad, but sure would be nice to be able to carry James Spann into my basement with iPad and watch his weather coverage downstairs if needed.

Found on their website that 3340News streams live coverage. Downloaded and crap, its CRAP. First, click on the “watch button” and its new clips from two days ago and only like 2 mins long. ONCE the playlist actually had “live coverage” as the first listing on the play list. I tried watching it, but after commercials, I got a splash screen that said “be back soon”......they lied. After 10 mins of this, I closed out 3340News , and opened it back up. NOW, THE “LIVE COVERAGE DOES NOT EVEN SHOW UP AT ALL UNDER THE WATCH TAB. ITS JUST DAYS OLD CLIPS. They either stream live or they DON’T. So far, its not worth my time OR effort.

This is an updated review based on the fact that nothing seems to have improved from a notifications standpoint. And because they haven’t fixed the issue, even though their release notes indicate they fixed it, I’m downgrading my rating to 1 star. The issue: When certain notifications pop up, I click on them and it just takes me to the “Explore” menu. The article from the notification is no where to be found. Either 3340News is dysfunctional or ABC is releasing articles and retracting them. If the issue is fixed, I will happily upgrade my review.

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ABC, when you send me a push notification for a news article, I expect to click on the notification and be taken to that article. This doesn’t happen.

3340News is pretty good, but I noticed 2 things that could help. During severe weather, I need to be able to use my phone, but also keep watching/listening to the weather broadcast. Could a feature be built in like other apps have be built into 3340News where you can navigate away and still have a screen for viewing or at least listen to the broadcast? And also maybe somehow could you eliminate the ads that have to be played during an emergency weather situation. Thanks in advance! Glad I have 3340News option.

I like the ease of use and fair unbiased reporting that I have come to trust over many years. The only thing I would like to see change is how you view pictures that show on the main article. For example when you click on a story the picture at the top is cropped and many times you can’t see the details of the picture. There’s no way to click on the picture to enlarge or open separately. If that was fixed 3340News would be perfect.

When you get news flashes and click on them to read, you get something else totally different.

I get notifications on my phone but when I click on them 3340News opens and the report is nowhere to be found-even when doing a search. Needs an update.

I will receive a news stoey alwrt on my home sxreen that interests me, and I’ll click t to take me to the story.... yet t never does. It will only bring me to the home page within 3340News .
I’ll browse the stories there but NEVER see the story that interested me! What gives? There isn’t even a search tool to try and find the story either.
Gets on my nerves!

I loved 3340News until a few days ago, when it was updated. Now, the Share feature seems to have utterly disappeared. Some of us use Share to add an article to Notes, so we can return to it; other times, we just want to share something with friends. Now, we can’t seem to do either. Also, when I tried to access App Support, 3340News opened to the article I had just read, instead of taking me to App Support. That’s why I’m writing a review. I haven’t tried reinstalling 3340News yet, as I’m still catching up on two days’ worth of notifications. Once that is done, I’ll try reinstalling. If that works, I’ll update this review.

Update: I reinstalled 3340News , and “Share” still doesn’t appear in the articles. Bummer! Also, App Support still sends me to whatever I just read. Another bummer!

App updated again; now Newsfeed nearly inaccessible, as images seem to hide titles of articles. Share is supposedly back; but, if you bring an article up, Share disappears again. App wasn’t broken two weeks ago, but the “fixes” since then _have broken it. If you don’t need to Share something or access Newsfeed, it’s still great!

I really liked 3340News until you up dated it. Now all I get is a white screen that tells me it will ask me about something and that was 2 weeks ago.... I’m still waiting for it to ask and for 3340News to give me news again.

3340News is doing what it did in previous versions. When you get a notification & click on it expecting to read or see THAT topic....you get the home screen. And what the notification told you is NOWHERE to be found!!!!

Something needs to be done too crack down on commercials That is all we watch if you’re gonna do something about it do it

Tired of alerts that take me nowhere when clicked.

Please remove the picture of James Spann when 3340News is opened. I like James but I don’t need to see him every time I open 3340News .
Thanks...

Add the ability to cast the news livestream to Chromecast

I was so excited for local news. I downloaded 3340News and I CANNOT HEAR ANYTHING!

Just upgraded to the newest version of 33/40. Too confusing and will not turn sideways. I like to prop my iPad sideways, to read and play, but can't get it to turn. Wish I had the old version back.

First the good: I love the notifications throughout the day to keep me informed that events are happening. I also love the "dark mode" look of 3340News . It makes it very easy on the eyes.

Now the bad: Opening notifications does not take you to the story you want to read leaving the user to scroll endlessly with a high probability of never even finding the desired story. Stories seem to jump around while scrolling through and just rearrange themselves with no particular pattern. Clicking many stories takes the user to some other story at random.

The bottom line: I love 33/40 and I love the notifications. For this alone I will keep it on my phone but 3340News developer needs to clean this thing up and make it usable because in its current state it's a borderline disaster. Many would say don't complain because it's free but I am some one who gladly pays for quality apps and would pay a reasonable fee for this one in a polished state.

I trusted the weather ap to warn me when the weather turned sour. It did show we were under a tornado watch, but when the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for our area, the weather ap never mentioned any of them. The 33/40 News ap did give one of the tornado warnings - I checked then to see whether the weather ap showed the storm and found the weather ap did not even list any of the warnings!

The News ap is a nuicance as it interrupts several times a day with "news" alerts for things several counties away - and usually nothing of "stop and be interrupted" importance.

I am deleting both aps!

I have tried many times to use 3340News. It's slow, the news is old, articles are full of advertising that I have to maneuver through to try to finish the article. I'm assuming that the local stories are self edited because of the poor spelling and atrocious grammar. I'm not saying that all of the articles have this problem but there are plenty. I would be embarrassed to recommend 3340News to anyone.
That being said, I'm deleting 3340News ! Sorry 33/40, Get it together! I'll contemplate trying you again at a later date.

I've been waiting for ABC3340 to provide an app. I had all the other major local news. But when I find a great story I can't share on Facebook or twitter ! So I end up finding the story I want on another news app & share their store instead.
Could have 5 stars...,,

The only reason I downloaded 3340News to begin with was to be able to read the Weather blog, but now it opens the blog in Safari. And even though I have completely turned off the notification, I still get notified about every bleeping things that happens around Birmingham and the world. Furthermore, WVTM's radar app is visually easier and nicer to look at.

Most of the time when I get a news notification from 3340News and try to open 3340News to read it, the article isn't anywhere to be found!! So frustrating! The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because of all the local news apps I have, this one gets the alerts to me first.

This is the worst app. I have ever used, because every time I try to play one of the videos , no matter which one it is, the prompt comes up and says this video is not available at this time. It should work fine as I am on iOS 9.3.4. It has been this way for over a year, and is still the same. I have even had this same problem with other phones.

I really like that 3340News provides a live feed, breaking news alerts, and news articles. It would be great if you added the dates and times the articles were published!

I have to delete and re-download 3340News to refresh the stories. My push notifications stopped, the entire app just freezes.

Love the live stream radar and traffic map! I have been needing both of these! I also got the ABC 33/40 weather app. It has more detail about the weather.