WTNH News 8 Reviews

I have everything on my phone set to silent during the night since I’m frequently waking up with a baby and I don’t want to disturb her. However, when my little peanut woke up tonight I went to her room, sat in her rocking chair and fed her and rocked her until she went back to sleep. Then I decided to check the weather for tomorrow and BOOM the loudest ad in the history of ads comes on! And even after hitting the mute button it still played loudly! Thanks for waking up my baby again! Jerks...

You’d think WTNH would have a good app like some of the other ABC newscasts. Unfortunately that is far from the truth.
1) Alerts pop up for breaking news then WTNHNews8 doesn’t show the article at all.
2) Other articles show on app, when you click on it to load, it takes you to a video screen saying “they’ll be right back” and never plays. No written article, can’t read NOR watch it.
3) Under each written articles, there are phrases from other news, but that’s all to it, you can’t click on it, you can’t see anything other than just that phrase.
Not to count the pop ups. App deleted, gave it a shot, totally not worth it.

I keep this installed because I read the push notifications or whatever fits on the preview of an article. "Click to open app" does that and only that, opens WTNHNews8 where there is no full story. The first couple of times I did this I tried finding the story but either it wasn't there or I realized I'm expected to watch some live feed. Really very irritating and can obviously be better. If someone is inputting some breaking news story, part of which is available as a preview, than the full story must reside somewhere. Why not on the landing page when you open WTNHNews8 ? Look at the CNN app for inspiration.

This latest update has totally ruined it.

Before everything was grouped by new local news, or you could easily choose county/region/nation/or international.

Now it’s a complete jumble - not user friendly or easily sorted.

Front page stories from a month or weeks ago placed first???-really now, what were you guys/gals thinking.

Obviously someone got a promotion and decided that to make a name for themselves they’d have to trash a very good layout and fix what wasn’t broken.

For sure, the ego of this person and/or team could never admit to their own incompetence - so I’m sure the “my way or highway attitude will prevail.

The purpose of this review is merely to let other users know they are not alone in thinking this update was a disaster. Those responsible won’t admit their failure - those types of people never do.

Next step is to delete this abomination and move on.

I had to rate according to how quickly it becomes frustrating after opening WTNHNews8 . I get several notifications per day of breaking news stories, and that’s really the most helpful feature of WTNHNews8 . However, when you try to open one of the notifications to read more, the article isn’t there. It just brings you to some video stream that is slow to buffer, and is not talking about the news story it just notified you of. Looking forward to an update that makes the end user experience more enjoyable. If you folks there at 8 paid some company top dollar to create this for you, you were ripped off. If designing WTNHNews8 was your kid’s project in computer class, then it was a great start, kudos to the little ones because its was better than I could make, but it still needs more tweaking to be professional.

Terrible setup- Everytime you click on a story a annoyingly loud ad come on!!! Then the actual replay of the news video from the telecast plays above the story as your reading!?!? I want to read the story not read a transcript as the video blares... what’s the point of reading then? Ridiculous, I only keep for rare time the only New Haven based newscast actually posts a breaking new haven area news story before all three Hartford area channels break the story and report long before WTNH even posts

In my opinion, you have ruined WTNHNews8 for me. I used to be able to get to it and find what I was looking for, and quickly read it. I do not want to watch a video every time I want news. And when I get to the video, there is always an ad in front of it. Ugh! I always check the weather from WTNHNews8. There is always a short paragraph about the forecast. That is gone now, and again, you have to view a video. Please fix it.

So... I would like you to know that I turned off all other notifications besides weather and I keep getting other notifications that I specifically turned off for because all I want is the weather. I don’t want corona virus updates or something about trump. I just want my notifications to only be about the weather and nothing else. So please News 8 fix WTNHNews8 or I’m going to keep this a low review.

I love News 8... been watching for over 40 years, however, I’m not loving WTNHNews8 . I can open WTNHNews8 , but it will only show content if WiFi is enabled. I can’t access it without WiFi connection. Most of the time, unless I am home, I do not has WiFi access, so when I am running on data, I get my news from one of the other three news apps.
Can you please make your app available to watchers when WiFi is not available?

I like getting channel 8 news on my iPhone daily but the reason I am giving this only 3 stars is due to the number of notifications that I receive. They send WAY TOO much and it’s day and night and almost non stop! I’m also not sure how to get less news stories or if there is even a setting where one can limit the amount of news and stories that channel 8 sends . And another issue for me is the fact that it’s almost always bad news . It would be very welcome to hear ANY good news or human interest pieces . So please less constant bad news and/or useless information and more good deed kinds of news and human interest pieces please, thank you , BSL New Haven

I love WTNH Channel 8 news so much! Such a pity this news app is just not up to par. I want to like it, however the stupid pop-up ad that greets you EVERY single time you load WTNHNews8 from the notification screen! By the time you get to the actual news article, you could have quick-viewed the news on SEVERAL other news apps!

Attention developers:
Please fix WTNHNews8! Yesterday! Also, weigh the weigh the costs and benefits of the pop up ad you have sprung at the viewer BEFORE you even get to see the news! Really?! Your average rating is: 2.7!

I’m sure it’s a nice app with good intentions. But, the custom alert settings aren’t as customizable as one may think.

I had the “WATCH LIVE” news alert option enabled, but after a day I turned that option, and every other alert accept for weather and politics, off.

Over the last 24 hours I have received no less than 24 alerts, of which 3 were for weather or politics.

I don’t understand why so many times that I turn on the news or a show and Channel 8 is an hour behind. I turned on 12:00pm news and The View was just coming on. What’s up with this?
It seems to be happening more frequently.

There is a problem with this version of WTNHNews8 . It works great if you are watching on the phone. But if you plug the phone into you tv to watch on the big screen, the advertisements come on and just repeat and repeat. The previous versions did not do this.

When watching the weather it’s hard to see when your weather people are always standing in front of the Groton, Stonington spot on the map can’t they more over to the Rhode Island side more or move the map to the left of the screen. Thanks

I love Channel right. Their news media tries to stay neutral as much as possible and their weather is always on a positive look even if it’s gonna be bad. Sam is the best weatherman of all the networks. Very positive and moves around the screen so you can see the whole Ct. The others including one of your stand on the south eastern side of the State so you can’t see the Newlondon Norwich area . But that is the only negative thing I have to say about the station. Dennis House will be a definite improvement in the overall presentation. Keep up the good work.

I love WTNH! Whenever I need to know what’s going on locally, I turn to WTNH! The weather app lets me know anything important especially here in Stamford!

I also love the cast!! They are familiar friendly faces and personalities that I depend on for accurate local, national & international news! Thank you!

I love WTNH News 8 for a quick review of local news. WTNHNews8 is always up to date so it provides me with just enough info to keep me in the loop. I’m not a huge fan of the television, so it’s not often I will catch the news. Lucky for me, it doesn’t matter. WTNHNews8 gives me all that I need plus more!! Keep up the great work!! Don’t change a thing!!

I have to change my rating to 1 star instead of 5 stars due to the fact that I’ve been using WTNHNews8 for years, streaming WTNH news at work every morning since I moved out of CT, & for the last 2-3 weeks it hasnt worked at all, it stays on the screen that says “content not allowed for streaming” then it freezes..I hope they fix this soon, I love WTNHNews8 & use it daily..

I downloaded WTNHNews8 so I could watch live streaming news but all I get are the same commercials over and over again. Id like to watch the news. Even Maine has news on-demand! MAINE! I end up watching Foxct 61 which is not the station I want to watch. I hope someone can help.

The weather videos haven’t worked for some time. Thought the update would help but no luck! There is a copy and paste link if I really want to go through the trouble, but why then have WTNHNews8 ? Please fix soon!
Everything else runs fine and is well organized.

I’ve use WTNHNews8 on and off for quite some time and I’ve seen the improvements over the different versions, which is great. I like the fact that I can see the live forecast & the CT news coverage. I could be exercising, on the go and still receive the news... I love it. One of the improvements I wish you could make is a better way to get to that daily live news coverage. The main menu says live breaking news which is really for special events/breaking news but I have to click around to get to the daily live news coverage, which wasn’t always the case in older versions. Another request I would suggest is the availability to use WTNHNews8 on Apple TV. Other than that thank you for WTNHNews8 !

When I want to find something out 8
Has either text me already or I find it as soon as I go to 8 and look for it.
I’m so glad I have WTNHNews8 now. I feel like I’m up dated on the news as it happens.