WLWT News 5 Reviews

Sick and tired of wanting to read real news, both locally and abroad, without inclusion/racism/LGBTQ+++/anti capitalism/Trump hating/COVID-19 lies about meds that really do work but because you hate Trump you won’t tell the truth & COVID-19 rules for me but not for thee/cop hating propaganda. When will you, Apple News, and all news outlets learn people of all colors, ages, genders or lack there of, are really tired of it all. It’s forcing people to look elsewhere for news like Twitter & RT. Think of something your parents tried shoving down your throat when you were a kid. What happened? You rebelled and were most likely disgusted by it. That’s how a lot of people feel right now. It’s nonstop 24/7 racist divisive garbage. Please just give the news. A sports team kneeling before a game is NOT news.

I really want to like WLWTNews5. My primary issue is that stories in push notifications are nowhere to be found in WLWTNews5 . If I get the notification on my Apple Watch, the banner clears from my phone. I will still see the red notification badge on WLWTNews5 , but when I open WLWTNews5 without clicking on the push notification, 90%+ of the time I cannot easily find the corresponding story. If something is important enough to send a push notification, I should be able to find it on WLWTNews5 !

I tend to catch up on the news either as I lay dune at bedtime (only to open an article to read, waking my husband because it starts involuntarily playing the article video??) I never click on the videos as I am trying g to quietly read the articles while others are sleeping. I hate when you click on an article to read it, and blasting commercials then articles play. I have to completely turn off any volume before opening a every single article on your site. Often I forget to turn it back on. Frustrating.

It was good for a while and I didn’t mind it because if you wanted to view the “updates” then all you had to do was scroll to the top and click on the banner. NOW they banner is almost if not more annoying as the “pandemic” itself. Trying to read headlines and scrolling up only makes the banner take up over half the screen. Get your wannabe updates about COVID off the screen and allow the people to be able to read the news without you shoving this overrated COVID crap in their face.

Normally I have good things to say about the WLWT news team. However, WLWTNews5 is frustrating. Apart from the numerous adds that pose as news stories, the alerts are misleading. If you are going to send an alert to my phone, then I should be taken to a story that is related to the alert when I click on it. Unfortunately, the alerts do not represent actual stories or even information that can be found on the newsfeed. Seems like a strange way of reporting news.

I used to love WLWTNews5 for local radar and staying up-to-date on local news. But my battery started to drain and traced it back to WLWTNews5. After deleting, my battery still has about 70% charge at the end of the day. Before it barely made it a full day.

WLWTNews5 also locks up all the time. You have to completely close it once locked to get it working again.

And finally, someone else mentioned the 6hr Doppler radar loop makes no sense. The default should be an hour with an option to change it or a link to the website if they want more history or options. It’s painful waiting for the 6hr loop to load.

I’ll download again in a month or two and hopefully at least the battery drain and frozen screen issues are fixed.

App works I can say that much. But really, I get notifications for a breaking news story and it’s followed by days old news stories from every where. One day should be enough for stories that are local news for me. The news cast itself is in my opinion okay nothing special. I like Lester Holt and NBC news that’s why I’m sure to watch last 30 minutes of the daily news on WLW Cincinnati.

Sometimes breaking news is not really “breaking “ as it has already been broken by another station. I really dislike the idea that they have of leaving the main part of an announcement off so you have to open the article. Annoying and makes me use my Fox19 App in order to see the headline without even having to open it. Sometimes I know by the headline if I even want to read the article. Weekend updates of weather are not always punctual in the early morning hours. I do like the news anchors and the weather team though, which is why I still use WLWTNews5 .

Decent enough to stay up to date on local news but the share button doesn’t work in WLWTNews5 . Whenever I try to share an article it just copies the headline with no link. Or it will copy the link in a broken format that I have to edit before it will work. Seems to be something you would want fixed since it is directly limiting traffic to your website via shares.

I think WLWTNews5 is good for weather & news. The only thing I don’t like is videos or ads always come up when trying to read news. I find it distracting. I have a child with special needs & the ads or videos automatically coming up is upsetting to him. I wish there was a way for those to not automatically come up.

For a few weeks when I choose a news story to open only about 30% of the time does it open correctly, the rest of the time it will open with nothing there and freezes the screen.
Besides this, I always thought this was a great app.

After having been hit by the tornado in 1999, I am always keeping track of storms when they come through. But with the radar the images are always 8 minutes behind! A lot can happen in that short period of time! Why isn’t it more current? I do find that the forecast is more accurate than those by other statistics, and I like the meteorologists!
The anchors have fun together and are great together.

If the news stories did not automatically start with the news video I personally would like it better and would have given 5 stars. I would like to read the story. There are times the video sound is inappropriate and I have to wait for the advertisement to finish before I can stop the news clip. I would like the choice.

Top news and most accurate weather in city. Just to many commercials when you use app. When people come to catch up on news and weather we don’t always have time for all the commercials. I understand that they pay to advertise and keep WLWTNews5 available but it is just to much to have to watch them all the time.

We moved just north of the city in 2017.
We started watching WLWT immediately - have to admit NBC was (and is) our preferred news source for local and national information. WLWT have informative and immediately important notifications. I enjoy listening to their journalists. But the best is their weather department. Their weather predictions are more accurate than other stations or apps. Randi Rico tells me exactly what I can expect for each day. WLWT definitely deserve a 5 star rating . . . . . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from our family !

This news service is excellent!
Great factual stories without wordiness.
Up to the minute news stories, not old ones.
Also, good; the human interest stories are great to read.
The weather part is factual and current plus the Futurecast weather is very good, timely and accurate! Keep it up.👍

WLWT seems to report on mst breaking events. This good! However, every time I start to rad an article, a ad pops up and blocks the news article. At the end of the ad, the article continues, but the news article information that was covered by the ad ca not be retrieved.

I understand that the ads are needed to provide revenue for the paper. If the article is Thai important, try one of these remedies:

1). Show the ad before or after the article.

2) leave the ads where they are, but after the ad, pick up the remaining information on the article beginning at the point where the article was interrupted by the ad.

You are the best. The most accurate (especially weather), which is a big deal. So happy, positive, and upbeat.

I work from home, so i watch all three of your newscasts; therefore, i need WLWTNews5! Because of the anchors and reporters, and support staff, i know WLWTNews5 will be just as great!

I travel with WLWTNews5. It is on all our family’s devices.

TOP NOTCH! Accurate. Get to the Point. Easy to read on the go. Always know what’s going on re: Weather, “Breaking News,” Food Recalls, Safety and Health stories. Anything important/relevant. Also love stories about local heroes, and know who is in need.

You are the best on tv, and thru electronics!

Thank you. I simply cannot imagine having another app. You are all that! Thank you.

Visit the site many times throughout the day to stay on top of things. I appreciate getting the latest news from my favorite reporters, Newscasters and, of course, weather/traffic. Not always easy to watch a while broadcast on WLWTNews5 - but it what I need out for. Will watch full 30-60 mins at home. But for "on the go" and updates, WLWT is my main source. Congrats on the Emmy's, too! Especially for the 53 Story. Blessings - a Loyal Viewer

I was always using WLWTNews5 for the live news broadcasts in the morning while getting ready for work. Recently it has started to not function correctly. It will play commercials before it shows the news. Then the news will come on and then at a commercial break it plays more commercials but then it will never pick back up showing the live broadcast it just is a blank screen. Please fix this on your app.

WLWTNews5 has different sections such as Local News, National News, etc. In each of these sections they only run 5-6 news stories. Then they will keep the same story posted for a couple of days. You mean to tell me there aren’t 5-6 new news stories out there each day. This has been like this for years. With their recent app update to the graphics, it only makes things run slower. I’ve had enough. I’m deleting WLWTNews5 .

I love WLWT as far as a news team but WLWTNews5 is just too busy. There’s so much crammed into small space. It shouldn’t navigate like a web site with all these CTA buttons jumping you all over the same page. Then with all the ads it’s just super busy. Clean it up, streamline the navigation and get rid of all (or a lot of) the ads- you’ll have a first rate app that matches the first rate news team.

I watch WLWT morning news because they are on top of all stories and I love the newscast. WLWTNews5 is a great extension of the broadcast with videos, stories, and push alerts. I especially like the push alerts for serious traffic incidents and breaking local or national news - keeps me informed at a glance!

This is a great news app. The only difficulty for the mobile users can be the the refresh rate when trying to load images form social media like Twitter. Scrolling is problematic when going by the images.