FOX19 NOW Reviews

Butler County (West Chester or Liberty Township) had a fire around 11:30 on Sunday, Feb. 15.
Nothing on the Fox19 news site. When you find the “Sections” carefully placed along the bottom of the screen, you get a menu along the left side. Please, go ahead, select “Butler County”. Then, look quickly because it is mere seconds and then the only image is all the ads. I took the Fox19 weather app off my phone for the same reason. I looked at ads, not news or weather.
My advice is - select a different Cincinnati news feed app until there are vast improvements made to this Fox19News app. You will be much happier.
Maybe, maybe, there will be improvements and FOX19NOW will be useful. For now, not.

I loved the old app, not sure why the change, but it was not for the better.
The areas look dated, don’t load properly, and the weather area is terrible. We lost information and the look of the technology seems like it back in time.
Very disappointed and will likely switch to a different local station.

So, I submitted a review that was less than glowing. Curiously, it was removed without explanation. The end-user’s feedback, I believe, should be welcomed; it should be considered a public service. Something had to be said about the glut of digital rabbit holes one is met with after tapping the shiny, little icon. I mean, who could resist, right? And who doesn’t love a frying pan upside the head in the form of an unbelievably intrusive ad right out of the gate? “All news sites have ads”, you might surmise. Of course! But an ad before the reader even has time to select one of the many vacuous articles? That’s just plain silly. And don’t get me started on the minefield of bad grammar and odd (mis)use of punctuation. My cat is a better writer.

The new update broke FOX19NOW. The homepage won’t connect to the internet. The other sections that do connect only have a few new articles, with a bunch listed as months or even years old. Plus they got rid of trending now, which was my favorite section. Aesthetically, the old version looked nicer and was easier to view.

You guys need to go back to the look of the old app. This new look is horrible. It’s confusing and it looks awful. It now looks like those ads at the bottom of the page you never click on that say things like “ See what this actress is up to now” but you don’t dare click on because your afraid. Change is not always good Fox19!

The recent update has made FOX19NOW awful!! This use to be my go to app for local news but now it is laid out so clustered and doesn’t have images with each news story on the main page and it doesn’t refresh as often as it used to! I think I’m going to have to delete it! Please go back to the old version!!

Your old app was much better and easier to navigate. Stories are repetitive. Sports are full of old stories. No high school football scores. The old app had it broken down into categories that were easier to find what you were looking for. Way too many ads in the new one. Probably going to dump this one for channel 5 or 9 or 12 to get my news. Love fox 19 but FOX19NOW is horrible.

This use to be my primary go to app, but this update leaves me looking for a new one. The new format is horrible. The font and layout seem like it was developed 10 years for my old Blackberry! Way too many ads and just an overall flop. I can’t imagine who looked at this as an update and thought it would be a good idea to release it.

I’ve had FOX19NOW for about two years with occasional upgrades, in my old and new phone with no problems. About two months ago it crashed, I’ve deleted, reloaded multiple times the past two and it still doesn’t work, will not open, even though it’s supposed to be an updated version.
I give up, apparently it’s no longer compatible with iPhone.

The most recent update has turned the news app into an advertising billboard. Used to be my go to app not so much anymore. I understand the need for advertising to continue to offer us this free app but at some point it gets to be way too much. I’ve deleted it and can find the same local news with a more reasonable ad to news ratio.

I used to think the WLWT app was the worst news app for Cincinnati’s major news stations. Not anymore! Folks, FOX19NOW was good, why’d you change it? Check out WCPO’s news app to see a user-friendly news app (no, I’m not affiliated). PLEASE revert to your previous version!

The only reason this isn’t a one-star review is that their local news is sometimes a little better than other local news outlets. Otherwise, FOX19NOW is poorly constructed and maintained, and almost never fixed. The present update does not load on my IPad. The last version could never load current news versions without first loading, and then unloading, the video update section. Other comments about commercials are right on.

Was an excellent app until they got pushy. Attached a install now banner that gave you no option not to install the lightening whatever. Would stay there hiding what I used to enjoying, news stories in a unhindered view.

It appears as if your attempt to upgrade/redesign the FOX19 app “looked a lot better on paper.”
FOX19NOW rarely opens for breaking news alerts, not to mention that accessing the homepage is nothing short of painful.
Please make an effort to correct these issues. Anything would be a great improvement over what is offered now.

With all the sports teams both professional and amateur you would think they would get up to date coverage. Not the case at all here. Even if you go to the sports section it is all very old stories and what coverage they do provide is horrible. Come on 19, step up the plate, Opening Day is just around the corner.

there is a way to make the fonts (print) size bigger, but I see no different & the print is much smaller than it was on the old app, even on the largest font size.

I am thankful for the news app an weather alerts !!

Switched to this from the Enquirer app since that kept cutting me off from articles around mid-month. Same news, no membership requirements.

This is my go to channel for all my latest fast news as I am most of the time rushing out. I need to exactly when it’s going to rain, sleet, snow, or a pleasant sit outside day. I need to know about my Bengals, reds, bearcats basketball and football. I get that with “19”. So keep up the good work!!

I do not like the new view of the website. Change isn’t always good!

Have stopped watching 6:30 and 10:00 p.m. news because of Rob Williams he takes to long reading the news he pauses, struggles reading certain words it’s like he’s got other things on his mind or something. I do watch when he’s off or on vacation! I do watch the morning and noon news.

I updated my Fox 19 news app yesterday but where is the current news?! Everything posted is a day or two old. There has been no current news posted on FOX19NOW since I updated it.
Another problem - I am still receiving news alerts but when I click open, it takes me to the Fox 19 website on the internet (it doesn’t open FOX19NOW ). I search for the same news story on FOX19NOW and it’s not there.
Very disappointed in FOX19NOW update.

App crashes immediately when trying to open traffic.

I like the news, but a commercial ( often the same one over and over) is a bit too much.