WSAZ News Reviews

WSAZNews is okay when I open it, but I just turned off Notifications because they are always teasers to get me to open app. I understand more clicks mean more advertising money for the station, but I hate going to WSAZNews to find out the details when they say something like “teacher arrested in our area”, or “local road closed due to accident”. The other news apps post enough information to know if the news effects me, so I don’t waste time finding out the wreck or the teacher were in another state, and don’t really interest me at all. So, with Notifications turned off, I probably won’t be opening WSAZNews much anymore.

I don’t notice any intrusive ads anymore - my only complaint is that 90% of the time when I click on a new notification, the story hasn’t been released on WSAZNews yet. For example: a notification “2 break ins in one day in Huntington WV” will pop up on my phone up to 20 minutes before the content is on WSAZNews , and I’ll get a message saying “there is no associated story blah blah blah”

Please fix this. I shouldn’t have to wait just to read a story. Either make the content appear sooner or don’t give people a notification until it’s ACTUALLY on the site/app.

Before this year I would have given WSAZNews a good review. However, recently WSAZ has quit sending out notifications about the news. Instead, they send multiple frivolous “bait-type clues” (such as “One county in our viewing area...”) about the new. This is rediculous! WSAZ is more concerned with increasing web traffic than they are about getting NEWS to its viewers in a timely manner. Please stop the #cluesNOTnews notifications.

I love watching the live newsfeed on WSAZNews especially in the morning while getting ready for work and I love wsaz , but the repeated commercials for Prim low office in is rediculous . This morning it played 5 x’s or more just repeating !! Then took another break And played 2x’s during that break. But other than that we love WSAZ and everyone that makes it happen!!

My major issue with WSAZNews - aside from the fact that it performs poorly and loads slow, is that they allow manipulative advertisers. You know the ones... the popups that appear and say you have an infected device...Bla Bla Bla. Click here to fix. Pure crap to prey on people who don't know any better than to avoid such click bait. A news agency should have higher standards than a third rate advertising partner like this.

Pure crap... don't download, just use their site if you have to... you're better off.

For about 2-3 weeks WSAZNews will not open. I get notifications, but app will not open from the notifications or when I open WSAZNews . I tried deleting and reinstalling and it did not help. Before this issue, I have never had a problem. Please fix.

WSAZ News and WSAZNews ’s developer have put WSAZNews into a tailspin. I used to check SAZ’s news several times throughout the day, but due to the recently added pop-up ads at the bottom of the screen it’s become impossible to even view a story without WSAZNews freezing. And yeah I know WSAZNews is free but on the other hand WOWK’s app is free as well and it doesn’t have any issues - hint, hint. Congratulations to your competitor on designing an app with less issues.

As someone who runs a business site, I cannot believe how many misspelled words are on this site! Especially in the headlines! The site is also not properly maintained, and does not keep up with the news in the area. I don’t know if it is just laziness or plain censorship. However, when you can get more news off of Facebook postings in your area, than off if the the actual local news APP there is a real issue!

The website needs to be kept up to date. It’s 4 days after the 4th of July. We don’t need to read when & where the fireworks are going to be. Also the older news stories need to be placed after the newest stories.
The ad regarding following WSAZ on Facebook is annoying. It appears to be more important than the actual news.

Until about a week ago I got notifications just fine. Now in WSAZNews itself there are notifications but nothing popping up like it did on my phone. The notifications are still turned on but nothing. WSAZNews is also hard to navigate with all the ads that pop up and won’t go away. I used to love WSAZNews. :-/

Frequently there is no story posted to WSAZNews to go with the notification that I just received. Also the notifications are borderline click bait. Why have you gone to omitting the names and locations from the notification? I shouldn’t have to go all the way to WSAZNews to see if the notification is even relevant for me. Terrible reporting. Just a way to increase traffic to WSAZNews to force add review by increasing views. Shame on you.

I'll receive a notification and when I click it, the story isn't available. I don't know how long it takes for the story to actually show up, but it's longer than ten minutes.

I'm using a 7 Plus running the most recent version of iOS and my app is up to date.

Notifications just barely tell you enough that you have to go into the site to find out anything. You would think that really important information like a health issues, COVID virus content, interstate closed , escaped murderer, etc, would have relevant information.... but no. It’s just a opportunity for WSAZ to sell ads. I am turning off all notifications. They are totally useless

If you love commercials, having your news shut off in the middle of the story (live stream), political ads from some other place in the country and continual political ads then this is an app you will love!!!! My 5 year old grandson could make a better app with playdough. This is a 100% mess!! The designer needs a job a Wendy’s flipping burgers but hey they’ll always be burnt! Save yourself space on your phone and don’t bother.

People want their news but WSAZNews just brings frustration. This used to be a good app. I’m going to be using a different news source however, because it’s too frustrating having this one freeze up daily, and when I get a notification of a new story, and try to go read it, it’s not even available. Poor quality and service shows.

Its not clear news. “Someone in our region...” the frequent tag line used as bait to get you to click on the story (that isnt even there) is misleading and frustratingly redundant. Once i click on news its often ill related, not complete or biased. When you decide to report “the news” and let ppl decide for themselves the opinion they have i may be back. Until then-bye.

I feel like it sends to much notifications but that’s probably a good thing. It keeps you updated.

I love the WSAZ app! When I’m not where I can watch channel 3 news, I can always count on WSAZNews to keep me up to date! It’s also my number 1 go to app for weather! Thanks for this incredible tool!

Freezes frequently. At times, I have to close WSAZNews out and try again. Frustrating at times. Why do you keep old news on WSAZNews ? Things that happened a day or more ago. WCHS app is much better with coverage and updating. Terrible that WSAZ won’t do the same.

WSAZNews crashes. A lot. It freezes. A lot. I get notifications of a news story that’s not on WSAZNews yet. A lot. You need better editors. There are way too many errors for such a reliable news source. I’m giving it only 2 stars due to all the freezing and crashes.

App has a tendency to crash.

Whoever looks over the spelling in these news stories misses a lot of mistakes. “Desolation will begins today”. Really? I find mistakes like this a lot. Journalism deals with words and making things clear for the public. Vocabulary should be included.

The today weather widget isn’t going to the weather tab of the WSAZ news app, all it’s doing is taking to the home tab which I don’t want to be. So your making us click/tap on the weather tab on the home screen of WSAZNews when we should of been there version 5.1.6 didn’t fix that problem to the wsaz weather widget

The only issue I have is WSAZNews itself crashes a lot! Otherwise it's great to be able to keep up with local news!

Very hard to search for anything using the search bar- not for lead news stories but “human interest” and “fluff” - but interesting - items. Can’t find those on WSAZNews at all...too bad as those are often the kind of things I would Ike to share.

I always get the updates I need weather, school, news its always keeping me up to date on what's going on!

The stories are fine, it’s just they are being shown over top of the ads and you can’t read what’s written.

The newest version of WSAZNews , did nothing but included poorly disguised advertisements as news stories. Older people, could easily mistake these fake stories for news, as if phone scams and credit card scams aren’t bad enough, now one must show the same caution with a previously trusted news outlet.