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This app purports to have an "over-the-air" feature where you can access broadcast content in real time. That's also what was said in the promo which aired many times on the lead up to Hurricane Irma. Part of the pitch was that if you download the app you can watch on a personal device even after the power goes out. On opening it you are, in fact, presented with a YouTube-style video interface which says something like "WATCH LIVE." This is complete bunk! When the video finally loaded what we saw was from four hours earlier (per WPTV's own time display at the screen's bottom right). What's more there was no slider to advance or rewind the video. I tried it again this morning when there were no threatening conditions and much less demand, one would think. Same results, except now the delay was over twelve hours! Full disclosure - No other station has anything better to offer. What really burns me is how all these stations represent themselves as the most up-to-date, tech savvy operation in the market, when in fact even the engineers and IT guys are every bit as amateurish as the beginner reporters they foist on us. Do not waste your time! Especially when it really counts. Like in the teeth of a bad storm.

Today it's extremely Republican... it has become just one political article after another disguised as "news". Even the simplest of things is phrased as partisan, with frequent articles praising surveillance and law enforcement -- to the point that we should treat convicted criminals who worked in law enforcement differently. Soooo many articles about combating homelessness (by driving them out), and non-citizen employment (by promoting harsh laws and penalties along with jails and employer penalties). You can keep your fascism, it's disgusting. I'm sad that the party I once considered legitimate has been corrupted to these hate-preaching fearmongering extremists.

Aside from some valuable emergency news every once in a while, the app is riddled with click-bait links (Outbrain et al) that take over 50 “next page” clicks to get to the headline of interest. This is not news and delegitimizes WPTV5 as a news outlet. Also some of the pop-up notifications do not link you directly to the news you want and drop you in the main page for you to find the news of interest. Clean it up guys. It is good to have local news but not like this. Deleting the app.