WCVB NewsCenter 5 - Boston Reviews

WCVB NewsCenter 5 Reviews

Published by on 2025-02-13

🏷️ About: Take the WCVB NewsCenter 5 app with you everywhere you go and be the first to know of breaking news happening in Boston and the surrounding area. Always stay up to date with the latest local news, national, sports, traffic, political, entertainment stories and muc... Show more


     


Overall Customer Experience 😎


😎 Positive experience
71.3%

🤬 Negative experience
14.7%

🫥 Neutral
14.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 12,455 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Always has great, timely news & weather stories

- Easy to navigate

- Gives alerts

- Accurate news and weather reporting



Read 22 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.5 out of 5
Horrible!!!

I don't usually take time to write reviews, but with how much I love the tv station, I thought I'd let you know how utterly horrible your app is since the update. Ads on EVERY video, ads all over WCVBNewsCenter5 . Spelling and grammatical errors any 5th grade student would be ashamed of. I can't ge... Show more

Poorly designed app

Just saw how other reviews..... I’m just amazed by how many people complain about the same usability and ad issues and no changes have been made. WCVBNewsCenter5 requires precision from users - in some cases, I have to tap in a very small area just to get it right. Also, what happened to any of th... Show more

Ads! Ads!! and More Ads!!!

Why all the ads?????????? Definitely a TERRIBLE app!!!!! This continues to be the most annoying news App! There are ads, ads, and more ads with each story! If you restart news footage then yet ANOTHER ad plays! WCVB advertises itself as a useful App, however all the ads make WCVBNewsCenter5 th... Show more

Still needs work...lots of work

Okay, so you use WCVBNewsCenter5 to get the “local” news, etc., but it’s still not user friendly. I still remember the old app as preferable in many ways, but now we have this. It leaves a lot to be desired.
How many enjoy watching a 30 second ad to see a 20 second video? Not me. I get the 15 ... Show more

Miserable experience for just watching live video

First - I love WCVB the *station*. They do a great job and I only watch channel 5 for my TV news.

However - when it comes to watching the live video stream of their news, WCVBNewsCenter5 is horrible. If all you want to do is watch the news live, don’t waste your time with WCVBNewsCenter5.... Show more

Some annoying features

Like the previous person rating the site said, who wants to watch a 30 second ad to see a 20 second video? If one loses the broadcast because of a bad connection and has to reboot, one is asked to sit through an ad all over again, likely missing the story to which you were tuned in. Additionally, t... Show more

Best local news app, but could be better

I have tried several others, but keep coming back to this one. I like the way it's laid out, the weather section, and the breaking news.
Two main gripes- The page won't rotate into landscape mode. You have to view it in portrait mode. (UPDATE: On my tablet it now works in landscape mode, phone s... Show more

I like the app,but the ads are excessive!

I've been watching their news since I was a teenager, long before it became WCVB. I always liked their format, and the news people. So, when WCVBNewsCenter5 came out, it was a no-brained to download it. And, I like the notices I get on my iPad to breaking news. It's gone through several update... Show more

Visuals are awful

Overall, not bad, but the new visual effects are awful. Let me see what stories interest me instead of having to look away while scrolling. Makes me seasick. The “refresh” is super annoying when you want to go back to where you were after reading a story, but it goes all the way to the top, leavin... Show more

Exceptional news service but the app is drenched in advertising

I’ve been a faithful viewer of WCVB for many years. The news is first rate, the anchors exceptional and it’s always my go to for weather. WCVBNewsCenter5 is generally favorable but the number and the placement of the advertising is off putting. I often get frustrated and just click out. I most oft... Show more

REDUNDANT

I find that when when scrolling down the articles, I’ll tap on a story, read it, tap back to the articles, but instead of taking me back to where I left off, it will take me back to the first article again and I have to scroll down all over again.
Also, they have the same human interest stories... Show more

Ads are constantly in reruns

I downloaded WCVBNewsCenter5 because I love Channel 5. Even though we are from the Fall River area, we have been watching its news programs regularly ever since our son went to Boston University in 1995. I like the latest iteration of WCVBNewsCenter5 ( I hated the slide shows of the earlier versi... Show more

More-frequent Updates

In general WCVBNewsCenter5 is very good. One improvement, however, is needed: update the news/stories more often. Some of the general interest stories in particular are on WCVBNewsCenter5 for days on end. Even some of the sports reports refer to games that were played days ago. Please remove... Show more

Getting UsedTo It

Got WCVBNewsCenter5 to get weather forecasts and school closings last winter. Liked the weather videos available at top of page and NewsCenter 5 team seems pretty accurate as year went by and I always found them reliable. Some updates where they tried to squeeze in more video ads made WCVBNewsCent... Show more

Getting there

Like the new app however hate that you have to wait a whole 30 seconds before being able to stop an advertisement. I understand the need for these advertisement but other news apps allow you to close them in only 10-15 seconds. Really frustrating when your complete news report is only 30 seconds ... Show more

Roy Funeral

Thank you for broadcasting the Roy funeral. I respect your decision. Your commitment to spend the money to broadcast this is another reason I am a huge fan of the station. I remember the day you first went on air. As a young geek, I was fascinated with the concept of channel 5 “changing “ Wasn’t WN... Show more

Please give the daily Dew Point.

I use your app daily to check the weather. Cindy always gives a full and helpful report.
I especially like the graphic of the 5-day changes in temperature and/or dew point. Very helpful.

My only request is that you list the dew point on the “homepage“ of your weather stats. You give the ... Show more

Eliminate the video advertisement

Does ANYONE actually watch, instead of immediately closing, the advertisement that usually plays after WCVBNewsCenter5 opens? I hope the advertising revenue is worth annoying users every time they open WCVBNewsCenter5 . Minus one star for that advertisement.
News-wise WCVBNewsCenter5 is not ba... Show more

News Items are timely, but . . .

WCVBNewsCenter5 always has great, timely news & weather stories. Although some of the other tabs can have stories that are more informative and not necessarily daily, the Entertainment tab should not be one of them. I like checking WCVBNewsCenter5 out daily, but more often than not, the Enter... Show more

“ I love this app”

I am a native Massachusetts , and channel 5 has always been my favorite new channel and still is , it give you accurate new reporting. All though I left Massachusetts and moved to sunny Arizona 2 years ago I continue to tune in to channel 5 news with WCVBNewsCenter5. WCVBNewsCenter5 is easy to na... Show more

Too many long and loud ads!

I like the news alerts from WCVBNewsCenter5 , but I can't click on any of them because you never know when an extremely loud ad is going to start playing on my device even though my sound is turned off. At least start out muted if you're going to force your users into an auto played video. I'm not ... Show more

Failure to launch

Your app is the same app found all over the country. Except for your piddling amount of local news it can come from any city anywhere. The most maddening thing of all is after reading any particular item one must start from the top AGAIN in order to find where I left off . Rediculous!!

Why ... Show more



Is WCVB NewsCenter 5 Safe? 🙏

Yes. WCVB NewsCenter 5 - Boston is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 12,455 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.5/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for WCVB NewsCenter 5 Is 82.9/100.

Safety Analysis

72.5% of users say app is Safe 👍
72.5%

20.8% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
20.8%

6.7% of users say app is Risky 🚨
6.7%


Is WCVB NewsCenter 5 Legit? 💯

Yes. WCVB NewsCenter 5 - Boston is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 12,455 WCVB NewsCenter 5 - Boston User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for WCVB NewsCenter 5 Is 99.2/100..

🔏 Privacy & Data Safety

WCVB NewsCenter 5 collected the following data from you:

  • Data Used to Track You:
    • Location
    • Contact Info
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Linked to You:
    • Location
    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Not Linked to You:
    • Diagnostics

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Features

Take the WCVB NewsCenter 5 app with you everywhere you go and be the first to know of breaking news happening in Boston and the surrounding area.

Always stay up to date with the latest local news, national, sports, traffic, political, entertainment stories and much more.

- An interactive radar that lets you zoom in and out to street level and watch storms as they approach.

Download the WCVB NewsCenter 5 app for free today.

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