WCSC Live 5 News Reviews

I do not like the new app design and layout. It is now time consuming to read the news. Having to go into each individual section of the news is not user friendly at all. Their is news that I’m missing due to the aggravation of working my way around WCSCLive5News . The new format has made me stop looking at the news.

WCSCLive5News is buggy. Crashed until I reinstalled it. After update. At least it must be a communication from the development team about the update. That might be easily detected if tested, which does not seem to happened.
Video- it was mentioned in several comments- you can and perhaps must make full screen when you flip the device. You may use the libraries and methods that already there.
Adds - beyond ridiculous. You play the adds content then throwing another picture add after which the video content is not played. The user must play the video again and watch another add preceded the video content.
No feedback/comments available. Is that how good quality product being delivered?
Understanding that the developer does its best.. maybe it worth to find someone qualified to do the work? Maybe it worth to rethink the marketing model? There are standards in app design and development. This is 2019. You are representing the city.

I’ve always liked live 5 for local news. However, content aside, each iteration of WCSCLive5News over the last few years has gotten progressively worse. This most recent one is no exception. A truly terrible app. The crown jewel of over engineering a fix for something that was not broken. If I didn’t have higher expectations it would be comical how bad WCSCLive5News is. Not user friendly. Layout/interfacing is cumbersome and needlessly complicated. Worst of all clickbait/fake news headlines are visually identical to real news headlines.
If you want to get good reporting from a terrible app, this ones for you.

I use to love WCSCLive5News, the developers need to fix the video playback. First you have to watch a ad video, which isn’t a problem, but if you want to see the video you have to rotate to landscape, and when you do the video stops and starts the ad video again. In landscape the whole screen is not visible when you try to adjust the position to see the video, the ad starts over again.

WCSCLive5News only does one thing well… display the initial-launch-full-screen ad. Then it hangs. Sometimes you get in to see a story, then it crashes. Useless. Forget about trying the live video feature unless you want to watch an ad, then 5 seconds of terrible quality video, then crash, then repeat. Garbage.

Not only do they send me alerts with links that do not take me to the related article but to the entire feed where I then have to search, but when I need to know why traffic is backed up for miles, there is nothing there. I thought you guys were on top of things but no.

This used to be a go to app for local news. Now it is apparently nothing more than an attempt to print the most depressing news they can find, and if there aren’t enough local murders, robberies, and teachers who do bad things, they go across the nation to find more of the same.
Just scroll down on any given day, if you can get past the constant bad grammar and misspellings. Today - “the robbery approached the pharmacy counter.” Come on, you can do much better across the board.

WCSCLive5News itself is simple and not overly impressive. My issue is with the constant pop ups, which are increasing in frequency, and glitches.
I feel that more important need stories should not be subject to a commercial prior to showing.
Just my .02
The news content is what it is. Content.

Live 5 News used to have the best app of all the local news channels. Lots of varied and interesting content, both local and global, up-to-the minute news updates, with excellent graphics, it was my go-to news source. Now it’s generic and looks like the others, tacky graphics/fonts, mainly just crime stories. Such a shame.

This at first was an awesome app...now it is getting bogged down with unnecessary ads and duplicated stories. Also the stories have a lot of misspelled words and are hardly updated once posted. Another difference is the reporting of news on the weekend seems to be non existent or very vague and again there are a lot of editing errors or the stories never get updated although they say “Stay tuned for updates”. Live5 News used to be my favorite until the quality off WCSCLive5News went down. I hope they correct these issues.

Live5 has been my go to news source for 3 years running. WCSCLive5News needs news ways to advertise instead of a giant Pop Up “game” to play and download - forcing users to shut WCSCLive5News down only to wait for another ad to play just to read an article.

That’s my only gripe - otherwise, keep up the good work.

I rely on Live 5 for news and weather, and love the way your web designer categorized the Live 5 news app recently, however when there is a notification or 2 and you click on WCSCLive5News , you don’t know what the notification was for as it disappears as soon as you click on WCSCLive5News

Layout leaves a lot to be desired and the ‘news’ is generally ‘old news’. Not a fan of the new look or much of the content older news. Also, might suggest updating video section. Same videos going back several weeks.

It says when “live” news is not available that most recent newscast will be shown. No, it shows news from other areas not even in SC. Then went to watch a replay of “most recent newscast” and the most recent program was from the previous day.

The constant COVID-19 updates and notifications are getting old. There needs to be an option to turn that off. I personally do not care about the new number of cases every 24 hours, each day of the week...

Y’all are great but you tend to forget to mention doing your weather forecast to mention us up in the rural areas like St George, ,Harleyville etc and we depend on y’all for our forecast too but beside that y’all are fantastic

The worse app on playing videos! You always have to watch an ad then when you play video and of course you need to rotate your phone to get bigger view . Then the video disappears and most of the time causes it to pause. Then you have to scroll up to find it all over again. Quality always blurry and video half off when trying to view full screen.
Follow up stories . A lot of stories are told as developing and never hear anything else on story.

Love WCSCLive5News 🙂

I have been watching live 5 news all of my life. Live 5 is always accurate as well as on time. Live news always has the interest of the low country community at hand. Thanks

Miss live 5 news when I am away. Look at on my phone a couple of times a day. I have been gone for 5 weeks but not coming home until we are clear of the virus

So tired of pop-up ads and videos, and a total dearth of updates on weekends. Tired also of alerts that are just updates to previous, tired stories, and updates won’t clear unless you go to “updates”, and there are none. This shouldn’t even be offered on WCSCLive5News Store, as it’s just an “enhanced” browser. Amateurish and frustrating.

I read the small articles every day but am sometimes dismayed at the number of grammar and spelling errors. The "check back for more updates" that is often at the end of articles is also frustrating because there usually are none.

Terrible “news” folks. They push their agenda on the public. Just report ALL the news in its natural and truthful form, Journalism 101. When they report on a perp, they leave out the most important aspects of the story. Whom ever is responsible for their social platform may want to try and read some of the articles published. Spelling and grammar errors galore. Embarrassing.

I like the old App better there was more news and less clutter and ads most people that are using WCSCLive5News have busy lives and are just try to keep up with what is going on in he area

Waaay too many pop up ads. They should offer a paid App without advertising. I would pay it. Other than advertisements popping up all the time I enjoy WCSCLive5News . Very easy to use.

Always fast with what's going on in the city!! Watch it every morning from 5-7 a. m. And every evening.!!

Growing up watching the news with my family, we only and always watched LIVE 5 News.
I didn’t realize as a kid that there was any other News team than Bill Sharp, Debie Chard, Joann Mack, Charlie Hall, and Warren Pepper.🤗❤️😇