First Coast News Jacksonville Reviews

Being a native Floridian who lived in South Florida, I was accustomed to very good news reports that came out of Miami-based stations.
Fast-forward to today. I now live in a 55+ retirement community in Nocatee and love it. My husband and I exclusively rely upon the First Coast News for an accurate portrayal of the latest happenings in our local area, as well as the rest of the world. Additionally, we have the FCN Radar app and review it several times a day. For example: I was about to take my golf cart to lunch but checked out the weather. Whoops..impending rain. Oh, well. Lunch at home, it is! Thank you, FCN!

The general parts of FirstCoastNewsJacksonville are good BUT WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND UPDATING STORIES DOESN’T DO THAT OFTEN ENOUGH!!! The page with the black and white topics is sometimes very old and outdated!!! It is frustrating when I try to see what the newest information is about them. Sometimes the information is VERY VERY OLD!!! More than one person should be involved if the author isn’t on top of stories or doesn’t work in it for several weeks!!!

I have all notifications turned off but weather. All weekend long my phone blew up with NFL draft updates. I don’t care one bit about football so it was very annoying. I also get news notifications. Really everything but weather. FirstCoastNewsJacksonville shows all my notifications (but weather) off so I’m not sure why my phone and watch get constant notifications of everything. I’m going to have to remove FirstCoastNewsJacksonville . Even though GMJ and FCN Is the news I choose I’m going to have to find another news app that the notifications off really mean off.

I moved to Florida 4 years ago and my very first morning here I watched FCN. I remember thinking this is the best local news show I have ever seen. Everyone is so natural there is no way they are reading from a teleprompter. I grew up watching Baltimore, Washington DC and the local news stations in our area for over 50 years before my move to St. Augustine. And FCN is hands down the best there is!!!!

Since I no longer take the paper, this is my news information! I receive notifications of happenings, and find out what is happening in Jacksonville as well as other places! No longer do I find out news a day or two later - I know it as it’s taking place!

I like FirstCoastNewsJacksonville except for the notifications. I have turned off all of the sport notifications but I still get notifications about the jaguar games. I even tried turning the local notifications off so I would stop seeing them because I don’t like football and I don’t want to see anything about football come across my phone. I would really appreciate if the developers of FirstCoastNewsJacksonville would make it so someone who has the football notifications turned off doesn’t see anything about football.

Keeping us up to date on the goings on in the community. The additional news like weather is also great.

Constantly dropping and closing FirstCoastNewsJacksonville . The state news showed the same news blurbs for a week, along with same advertising on every block, if there were 8 blocks, u saw the same darn thing. Breaking news wasn’t really breaking news, it would still be there hours and days old. Some aren’t worthy of that classification. Then that same bit of news is in local, then in state... jeepers can’t you find anything to fill it’s spot, this a whole bunch of stuff going on out there, but triplicates isn’t needed much less duplicates. Need a better webmaster.

The alerts that are sent out from FirstCoastNewsJacksonville are a bit much. I can understand if something is truly breaking news. When you send an alert that a school in S Florida will be going back next week- that’s not breaking news and can wait until the noon news.

When alerts are sent, they should be clear. Sending an alert that several schools are on lockdown but not listing the names of the schools is simply trying to create fear. Please do better!

I love First Coast News! It’s my favorite source for local news. FirstCoastNewsJacksonville is horrendous! It drops videos while you are trying to watch some breaking news. Or, if it doesn’t drop the video, it doubles up on the voice, like an echo, so you can’t even hear what they’re saying.
I will get a notification, then will go to FirstCoastNewsJacksonville , and it’s not even showing up anywhere! That has happened several times!
Please fix FirstCoastNewsJacksonville! I want to love it!

Thanks for the update of the fcn news update, BUT what’s going on with the fcn
“Storm Experts” weather app? The daily and hourly forecasts disappeared a few weeks ago. No updates, no info about it. Such a shame. This WAS my go-to weather app. Please let us know what happened.

I rarely watch local or network news, but I do want to be aware of events closer to home. The FCN website and accompanying app provide that information, often as it is happening.

On the go to work or returning home to the family, it’s great to quickly be informed of issues important to life in the greater Jacksonville area. With breaking news as the Coronavirus, FCN is even more appreciated.

Really miss being able to watch FCN on AT&T for my evening news. Watching competition is not the same. Hope we get our ABC and NBC back again.

New to this area. I look at FirstCoastNewsJacksonville every morning for the local news. Only drawback is sometimes the stories stick around too long.

We moved at the end of October, thanks to Irma. We still miss our First Coast and you give us the pleasure of keeping us up today in what is going on ‘at home!’

Keep in mind be original. The updates have always been there to keep FirstCoastNewsJacksonville secure, not for “squashing bugs”. Don’t make FirstCoastNewsJacksonville another Google early 500 change updates so you can say squash bugs and left work early.

The bottom line is simple “militate” security and software integrity.

We don’t squash bugs as a programmer with update protect the consumers identity, and provide accurate and non censored content.

It’s what distinguishes you from the BS going on at the trillion mess Silicon Valley has brought upon our country.

I have watched this station for 4 decades and like everything except the Sports segment. Mostly techy and not information . Maybe over 50 should go somewhere else.
Thanks

Thank you

This is a nice app that focus’ on Jacksonville and it’s surrounding areas. There is one thing that I would like to see improved in an update, and that would be to have the ability to view videos fullscreen.

I love GMJ !! I look forward to watching it every morning it’s on. You have a fantastic group of people and feel more like family than any other station in Jacksonville.I start each morning at 4:30 and watch till about 6 as I head to work .. I’ve never been a fan of your website though, not user friendly and awkward to navigate. Had to resort to news4jax if anything important was going on during the day .. since I installed FirstCoastNewsJacksonville it has been really informative and so far so good, Ill have to see how it is when the next big storm comes along and then you might get that last star.

I really enjoy the FCN app. It helps me stay up to date on the news and the latest weather and happenings. It’s a great app.

At times, I have to wonder if the only news being reported is what is available from the local police blotter. Business news is largely ignored.

An out of towner relying on FirstCoastNewsJacksonville for local news would likely be aghast at the amount of crime taking place in the city.

Crime, crime and automobile accidents, mostly with injuries. Isn’t there ever anything positive to report?

Always watch and downloaded on phone
Most reliable News station in Florida
Keep up the great work

Love First Coast News..Love Heather. Thanks for doing more on the Middleburg Clay County area. Actually like all of your news and weather casters. Waiting on news from Keitha..y’all keep up the good work..

As life long native Floridian I can’t always catch the news on TV. This is a great alternative for on the go news.

We watch you every evening without fail. New faces and not so new faces. All if you are great.

The new and so called improvements made to this site is not liked. The improvements made does not impress me and others. The old website was much easer to navigate from story to story.
It’s time for a change, by your web designer or by people following another news source.

Up to the minute weather forecasts assisting with many thunderstorms occurring this week.