WKYT News Reviews

by Crispy520

Over the years, I have watched as WKYT lost its way. The poor grammar, lack of updated stories, and obvious lack of objectivity have made my decision to delete WKYTNews much easier. I am sorely disappointed in the writing and lack of investigation of the headlined stories.
Your community counts on you for reporting what IS. You must take care in such cases of reporting. You, WKYT, have forgotten how important journalism is. You’ve allowed technology to make you complacent, weak, and cowardly in your dispersal of information to the public. I realize this is just “an opinion” to you but be careful; your responsibility is greater than your previous and current, flippant reporting. I do hope that you take heed of these words. I want you to succeed but you have to become more than fragile glass. Go deeper into the stories, my friends.

by EBaby12345

So unfortunate. This really is the station I want to follow, but WKYTNews never works. Phone up to date. App up to date. When I open it, it just spins….and spins…..and spins. Please make WKYTNews better. No choice but to use a competitor’s app. :-/

by ScottyDR

I understand that someone has to pay for WKYTNews and it's services, but you can't hardly read a story for all the advertising. You would think WKYT news was an advertising business not a news service with the amount of advertising being more than the news you get from WKYTNews . The bad part about leaving a review is that it is obvious that they don't read them. So it's a waste of your time to give them a review, because they obviously don't care what anyone thinks.

by Goose1123

WKYTNews is like playing a game of scrabble trying to find the information that I just previously read an article from. I’ve seen start up companies with a better layout platform. Get it together WKYT

by Hornp

It’s cool to see the local news but WKYTNews has so many spam ads in it that I’d rather just not even bother. Clickbait “articles” from outbrain. The only thing worse is taboola. SMH
If you want to be a trusted news source, sell ads from reputable local businesses and skip the garbage.

by Metallica_1983

Update causing app to crash upon opening. I updated because it would not open updated caused to crash when opened. I deleted and reinstalled but still crashes upon opening.

by Govaccountant

Have used WKYTNews for several years was satisfied with it. But recently it started requiring you to allow location service to be active. Can no longer use it.

by The Sagacious One

I dislike how not only do you have pop up ads but you camouflage even more ads within your news feed. Definitely overkill.

With the addition of pop up ads that can’t be ignored I’ll be deleting WKYTNews and not re-installing. I suggest lex 18 for anyone looking for a local news app.

by Farmgirlky

It’s bad enough that your reporters don’t proof their audio-filed reports and that no one else bothers too, now we are assaulted by pop up video advertising the minute WKYTNews is opened. Time for me to find a better local news source online.

by Eajxn

I wish Lexington and surrounding counties had a good news app, surely there’s a decent designer somewhere in Ky. Unfortunately all of 3 of our major news channels apps could use a complete overhaul! I’ve kept WKYTNews because the news alerts are handy but unfortunately just following daily or hourly news stories is pretty sad.

by Lordpiglet

Now I get constant live stream failures or freezes. Every time the livestream fails you have to resell them it, watch another ad (amazing they never fail) then wait to see if it works. If the stream is down, then tell me before you waste my time with an ad. Now you even get an ad when you open the ap.

by PurpleHaze1001

Even with the Fayette Mall shooting the updates were few and took forever. You would think with social media and apps being how most news is received now they would make this more of a priority. Really weak. Also, so so tired of seeing the same graphics for the Daily Covid Report. Surly you guys can do better at this.

by Hurried Consumer

Going to check the news and being forced to watch several seconds of a hated political identity (either one right now) makes me want to switch to another local news provider. I can stand that an ad pops up and it my choice to listen to them prattle on or not. Making me listen to 5-10 seconds of them begging for my money and vote is unacceptable.

by Griffith4120

WKYTNews is great , except when you open it . There is always some kind of sell ad that you have to close. It should just go straight to the news. If I wanted to buy something I would use another app.

by Jspalding

You got something going on with WKYTNews that causes it to just crash. I was reading an article several times when it just crashes. I'm not sure if it's because of the new updates. But we need to get someone in charge to make sure WKYTNews is up to date with phones. It just get frustrating in the middle of articles WKYTNews shuts down.

by 69doofus

I liked WKYTNews, right up until I was required to watch a political ad for a minimum of five seconds before I could even bypass it. No thanks, I’m done!

by Point Counter

I have had WKYTNews just quit several times. Recently it wouldn’t load at all. I have deleted it and reloaded it, and now it seems to be fine.

by Treyjoe

I really think WKYTNews is handy and is good for me. But I really do believe your liberal views hurt you. Seems as if you always make the Democrat or Homosexual agenda your priority. I’m wondering if it would be possible to make it basically no partisan and not against the Christian value system most Kentuckians hold. I hope you take this as a help not a hurt thanks..

by TaylorSwiftisBAE

It isn’t a bad app but it has a bad habit of just randomly crashing when you’re just browsing around WKYTNews .

by Shruduwhe

Does it really have to make the siren sound when "light rain detected in your area"? Seriously, it's like the boy crying wolf! I only want the siren when SEVERE/TORNADO weather is coming.

by C11112221

WKYTNews needs to be updated to be more compatible with the new iOS. It crashes about 85-90% of the time when I open it, and it started shortly after the new iOS came out. Your app developers need to address this issue.

by Jerry Puckett

Should be WKYT Ads and more Ads instead of WKYT News as WKYTNews gets more updates it gets worse more ads news articles are badly written some need a third grader to rewrite them
I really like the WKYT newsroom but their app needs help

by TomTh@!

Go look at some comments, come back to WKYTNews and it reloads. Switch to another screen to check something, switch back and it reloads. Very annoying.

by KJohn610

Since April WKYTNews has turned to crap. I’ve kept it cause I love the news station. I am deleting WKYTNews and looking for a better news app. WKYTNews has way to many problems.

by Lexbb33

In recent weeks WKYTNews keeps locking up and crashing, it seems to be related to the ads.

by Chickory

I had not had problems with WKYTNews until about a week ago. Then it would never open. It showed that it was loading for eternity. I deleted it and reloaded it. So far, so good.