KOAT Action 7 News Reviews

by Firefighter3550

Anytime you want to look at anything on the KOAT app you’re overwhelmed with ads. The stories that “look” important are there just to get your attention so you’ll click on an ad or sponsored article. Most of the articles on KOATAction7News are at most 1 paragraph long, and the “breaking news” is a joke. Immediately after you open KOATAction7News there are more ads than there is real news. KOAT sold themselves to advertising. They’re just like Facebook, they use your browsing data to create ads. I call KOATAction7News a “click bait app”; it’s sole purpose is to make money instead of serving the community with honest and important news. KOAT was always my go to for news but they lost me when it became about ads and click bait!

by Dhsoye

When I went to school many years ago when it was really school about our one country & how the immigrants came with US FLAGS, we were called a “melting pot” because it did not matter where you came from, you became an AMERICAN! Since then, I have noticed the media, including KOAT, can’t tell the basic news story true or complete. What happened to the “who, what, when, where & how” of reporting? None of you mainstream “journalists” would have passed my high school journalism class! If we are lucky, we may get one of those questions answered, but everything is sound bites, not news!

by Almena's Mom

Sad to see KOAT has gone to the dark side. 95% ads, 5% old news and then you try to report national news too instead of more local news, and do a poor job of it. ABC has OK national news reporting, but they're even worse about ads about prescription medications that only doctors can prescribe. What are people supposed to do, run to their doctors and ask them about the 20 or so medications they saw advertised on TV.

AND, the stupid stories about celebrities, etc., that tap your interest (that never change) and when click them it sends you into a jungle of MORE CRAPPY ADVERTISING for JUNK!!!!

Who knows what to believe. It's as if you don't see things happen with your own eyes, you can't believe it's true. It's all so corrupted and fueled by greed, it really is a sad situation.

Guess I'll stick with NPR for now. Better journalism, less advertising.

by LNH06

I hate that I can’t actually read many of the stories. When I click on a headline or story it just gives a sentence or two and sometimes a video link. Every now and then I’m able to read the whole story but not most the time. I love watching the news cast but hate KOATAction7News because I’m not able to read the stories. Maybe your developers can incorporate the actual story into KOATAction7News .

by Matty Ice76

My main issue with KOATAction7News is that every story automatically comes up with video and most of them don’t have the written narrative below the video. There are times when you can’t watch a video due to the location you’re at, maybe in a doctor’s office, in bed with a sleeping spouse, etc. all stories should have the ability to read the complete story rather than watching a video. Because if this I often go to another local network’s site because they have the written story in addition to the video, every time.

by Retiredone3

I’m a very loyal watcher of KOAT but as of late I have not wanted to watch. I feel the new people are rushing through stories. After listening to new afternoon lady I have a feeling of rush and anxiety she talks so fast that it hard to understand her. And on weekends Sasha has also started to rush through stories talking so fast. I’m sad to have to watch other channels just to get the news. I hope KOAT can address this as I would like to continue watching.

by Another Gail

I generally only listen to the news so this is based on that experience. The ads are the most annoying. They haven’t changed in the year or so I’ve been using KOATAction7News except for the station ad, which serves my point. we are well into spring and the weather ad is for winter weather. Other than that and maybe it’s a problem with my carrier or device”s” but if I minimize KOATAction7News and then try to pull it back up (1) the news shuts off so (2) I have to listen to the lead in ad AGAIN! Other than that my issues with it (new broadcast) freezing, repeating and jumping around are likely internet related. BUT in spite of the aggravation I do like having it available

by 4 Hills Lady

For those of us getting the news for the first time, the reporters speak so rapidly most of us past the age of 21 cannot understand the rapid fire presentation. Not many items, including the weather, have to be delivered as if this story is an emergency. Please slow down.
Thank you.

by Dannthelionn

I typically only use KOATAction7News to get breaking news alerts. However, whenever there is such an alert and I try to click on it to go to the story, there is no such story listed on the feed. More often than not, I cannot find any reference on the main page to the headline in the push notification. Frustrating!

by Cwoes

Many times “breaking news” stories do not warrant being breaking. Then there is a delay to read the “breaking news.” Additionally the stories are just updated over a period so that they remain vague and the details, added in later, make the story confusing to follow.

The best thing is the radar feature. I use it when I’m traveling to see what’s going on in my area.

by Starlyte30

I get breaking news alerts for things that are not even breaking news or have already been in the news for a few days. One of your competitors actually has a place to choose what type of news you would like to get alerts for. Maybe that’s something you could do too?? Also, some of the news in KOATAction7News is so old. I prefer KOAT but lately I have been using KRQE App now instead.

by Drinking Lady

I would like to have the option to either read the article or hear it. not both. Trying to read the article with the background voice is distracting and annoying. Otherwise your pretty good.

by SilverCitian

As much as I appreciate the morning weather forecast with Eric Green,Silver City is so often blocked from view.
Can the graphic be moved to the right a bit to have Silver City visible, or, move Eric to the left a-bit?
Other forecasters stand away to the left more.

Thank you for considering.

by EEN2

Accuracy of base map with KOAT NM Weather ap was much better than base map on this site. The old ap is no longer supported. Current map, regardless of radar, is inaccurate with current road names and is not as detailed with roads, etc. I’m very disappointed with this feature.

by Along 4 The Ride

I mostly ONLY read the notifications. I like having my news in a nutshell because the details are just too overwhelming. I like the balanced reporting, and the weather the most.

by Wookie1057

KOAT has been my go to for many years. My only issue with KOATAction7News is usually when you get an alert, click on it taking you to the website the alert story is nowhere to be found.

by ANIpumpkin

Love my KOAT, look forward to watching all the news crew, they make you feel a part of the KOAT family by sharing personal stories and making you laugh along with them. And of course there always on top of the latest news.

by Buggjoy

I live in California and I feel like I am kept current on everything happening in New Mexico because of your updates. It is important for me to know what is happening there as my elderly mom lives in Albuquerque. Please keep reporting fairly unlike the national networks.

by Pradakirb

I have greatly appreciated the live updates that KOAT has provided daily from The White House. Unfortunately, no other news site I subscribe to sends me these alerts. I have great respect for this station and their transparency during this time. Thank you!!!

by Peralta Gma

I love KOAT and it is my preferred channel especially the news coverage. I love the personalities of each news anchor and the rotation of news casters.
The one thing that I wish would change is hearing the same news stories over and over and over and over .....................................again
Do we not have enough news to report afresh daily?
Thank You

by Capt Slew

App is very functional but I don’t understand what’s up with so-called breaking news alerts.
Breaking news alerts are fluff 95% of the time and actual breaking news the public needs to be informed about, not a peep.
Example; several months ago I got a local amber alert on my phone and nothing from KOAT. Yet, a story about a woman skydiving on her 90th birthday is worthy of an alert?

by Dbl L Nan

Breaking news alerts are not current braking news. They often notify you for stories that ran previously, even up to 2 days before the notice. I’ve turned off the alert option for this channel and only use KRQE for more accurate and true breaking news.

by Nittfaglcgtn

Economics necessitates advertising but advertising online as a news report is misleading. Frequently the only thing that’s news will be the addition of still more commercials. We really need something between the present format and watching your live reports. Please.

by 1234sn

It seems the same stories are left on much longer than necessary. Many times when KOATAction7News opens it’s the same stories that were there the day before. Many stories have incomplete sentences, the articles stop right in the middle of the sentence??? So frustrating.

by Pepper@ Salt

To many adds: to read a story you have to scroll so many times just to read the article. Most of the time it will just be a short part of the news!

by Zucchiniman

I like the news alerts from KOAT. Not too many, not too few. It is sometimes annoying or worse when serious or sad news is delayed by irrelevant ads.