Action News 5 Reviews

Always loved ActionNews5 , been highly reliable for some years, but the past year(2020) the watch live has not been perfect, only works maybe 50 percent of the time. Since I work early in the mornings it’s the only way the lifted doesn’t always work, not good in severe weather events o can catch the news and weather live. It’s really aggravating during bad weather events , luckily most of the time I can go the Facebook page and watch then. Don’t see another way to report this, I hope that the right people over ActionNews5 sees this. The Watch Live is a really important tool for when there’s no TV around during live news broadcasts.

Been using for 6 years. The weather radar used to be one of my favs. In 2020 the “upgrades” resulted in loss of functionality. The May upgrade also resulted in articles from last year showing up in the feed (“possibility of wintery mix” from Nov 2019 when current date was June 1) and many others. And worst of all, one political pac has bought up the vast majority of advertisement space and it is very unsettling to see the same non-sense over and over and over and over. Uninstalled. (Please note WMC is a great station with great people. Their web app service is terrible)

Here’s what you get, horrible flow and content that seems to be written by a monkey. There are gaps in logic and missing words, so many times you are left wondering if they even read their own content. You cannot trust what they are reporting is accurate. One thing that ActionNews5 excels at is whenever you click on an article you are re-directed to advertisement videos that you have to watch for several seconds before returning to the content you actually wanted to see. So, if you want an app that sandwiches worthless content between unrequested advertising, download this one and enjoy!

I don’t mind reading news items on ActionNews5 , but I don’t like the ads popping up whenever I access ActionNews5 . I don’t get on the different stories to see the ads, I get on ActionNews5 to read the news stories

Can’t find an update on the Rhodes College student savagely murdered in home invasion near campus! Mainly stupid details on unimportant sports arguments, petty old news with little to call a real story about anything. Who can read it with ads bouncing and popping on the screen and wasted time trying to follow anything seriously. So disappointed after spending most of my life in Memphis watching major stations and trying to follow legitimate news about my hometown on any of their sorry apps. Lots of murder headlines but no follow through.

Another poor upgrade. Can’t get to the home page half the time after the advertisement pops up. Just tries to load (I’m using iOS). News layout is bad. Layout needs to distinguish better between ads and articles. News stories are repeated or short or outdated much of the time.

Based on the poor reporting over the years and the content on the website I’m sure those who oversee ActionNews5 have no idea how bad it really is and that ActionNews5 isn’t even working for most users.

If I have several notifications on different news topics on my phone , and I look at one, wether it is the most recent or oldest, it deletes all notifications. This has not always been the case. Haven’t been able to fix with any of the settings. Did not see a place on developer site to send in a problem with ActionNews5 . Love Action News 5, please fix.

I love getting the breaking news on my cell phone. Many times it has saved me time by avoiding traffic shut downs. It also keeps me up to date on what’s happening in the city. Great app to have.

Were ActionNews5 developers drunk when they made this update? Totally user unfriendly, impossible to navigate, advertisement driven so that it takes 4+ selections to get past ads to news page, and that doesn’t even work some times. Layout in landscape mode awful. Menu is cumbersome and unreliable. Obviously was never quality controlled checked before release. What an embarrassment to board of directors, and executive staff.

Why does Joe Burch on Thursday afternoon news have to refer that the two men running were the two white men left in the run for president. They are two men weather they be white, black, brown or any color. I find it offense for him to say two white men. Is that really important.

Channel 5 has been a staple in my family since the beginning of time and my favorite go to when I need to find anything out in the news ! Keep up the good work !!!!

Not a step forward, as the newest version of ActionNews5 is awful. Articles repeat themselves, the font is painful to look at, and the flow is bad, with articles becoming hidden between multiple ads and other graphics on the page. Please revert to the previous version or I may have to delete ActionNews5 and get my news from another local station whose app is more useful and appealing.

Stories are weak and repetitive. Way too much advertising and sometimes you are transported out ActionNews5 to some website commercial. Since the new 6.6 whatever upgrade the weather radar is nonfunctional. Switching to Fox channel 13. Maybe they Are better especially for weather radar

Latest update 6.7.6 will not open on iPhone. Other than that. App is always reliable

I am tired of paying for bandwidth and wasting time waiting for WMC’s revenue stream to load ads to shove in my face. It keeps getting worse. ActionNews5 and their First alert weather app are first of all a revenue stream and only secondarily a tool to inform the public. And their political bias is very obvious as with all of NBC. I’m done. There are better sources of real news available. DELETE!

I truly prefer the previous lay-out than this one. Change is good, but not this one.

why, too many adds, splash page add, then adds every time you watch a story, paid adds intermixed with news at the bottom, then adds when you switch stories.

I would rather pay a small fee monthly then get earn out with unavoidable adds.

This website is a disservice to the actual journalists who work at WMC 5. It functions poorly, is so overwhelmed by advertising to the point of loosing legitimacy. Most of the entirety of the website is filled with click bait advertising. There is still a link for I-40 bride closure on the main page. I love WMC 5 news but do better. Much better.

Nice app, but whenever I tap on a push notification about a story, it almost always never gets me to that story. I end up having to search online instead to find the story making ActionNews5 useless. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You report daily covid19 deaths. To be totally transparent you should report total deaths from all causes so viewers can see the actual effects of the corona virus. We need to know all the news not just what you’re telling us. Please humor your viewers with this information showing daily deaths from all causes and actual numbers from covid 19

Just updated app. Now can’t get ActionNews5 to open. Until then had no complaints, the only news app I use.

ActionNews5 is nice and easy to use. I just updated ActionNews5 , but it will no longer open on my phone now! The only thing it will do is open to the blue channel 5 screen and then exit back out to my home screen.

Up to minute real time news, and I don't have to wait for the news later on television.

I love Action News 5. The news anchor personnel is great. Also sports and weather.

The type is too little. The font looks like a New York Times newspaper, which is unpleasant to read. I always look for the time Ian article was posted before I open it. No longer. I have to open the article to see when it was posted. Please go back to the way it was or pick something better.

The other version of ActionNews5 was great, I used it everyday. But I just updated it and now every time I open it ActionNews5 just crashes... love the whole wmc crew

The last update messed it up and won’t even open. It gets to the loading page for 2 second before crashing

WMC used to be my go to channel but it’s become sensationalized with the only local news being negative. I’d love to see what’s going right in our great city and know in advance what’s happening so we can support our community. Unless it’s a shooting, Grizzlies or Tiger basketball, it doesn’t make headlines.

Reports fairly. Weather always correct. I trust my 5 group. Good people.