WISN 12 News - Milwaukee Reviews

by Bfliss

App used to be nice. Now ad videos auto play while just scrolling. Annoying when you reading news in bed and you wake your spouse with annoying noise. Before you can watch a small 15 second clip, you have to watch a 30 second commercial. The commercials that you click on, at least you know will play sound....except they don't. Lol. The companies paying for ads are wasting money. As of today, WISN12News crashes 3 seconds after opening. Deleted app, cookies, etc, rebooted, reinstalled...still crashing. Just keeps getting worse. Gonna try other news sources besides hearst.

by Chopchop Lovin' It!

I have been watching channel 12 for decades and I have finally realized just how “left leaning politically” your news people are...especially Joyce Garbaciak...she’s very good at her broadcasting skill but her bias and liberalism shows through...would love to see her express how “proud and honored” she is to interview President Trump like she proclaimed about Obama...don’t watch your news or ABC programs like Good Morning America, the past 90 plus days of coverage of the riots and destruction in democratic run cities, like Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kenosha anymore because of it...oh, that’s right, you didn’t show that from the beginning...that is until the Republicans outed you liberals and socialistic wanna be’s ...I just watch General Hospital on ABC because I have to...and that’s only until some other network picks it up! Shame on you...USA USA KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!!

by Bd5400

WISN is generally my preferred source in Milwaukee however using WISN12News is a chore sometimes. Often, stories that come in via notifications aren’t yet available in WISN12News unless you specifically go through the notification. If you see a notification come in while you’re doing something else you can’t finish your task and then head to WISN12News . You have to head to your notifications and access it that way or else you won’t find the story.

WISN12News also constantly pauses your music in order to play ads, even when you aren’t trying to view a video. It’s incredibly frustrating that you can’t read news stories and listen to your music at the same time.

by Sam From You

Your coverage of most of the news is one sided and biased. Not so much local but when it comes to the dems and repubs you are most certainly extremely biased. Your job is to truthfully report the news to us. Don’t spin it, don’t ad your commentary just give us the news. Don’t try to push us to feel one way or the other. Just report the news and let us the readers/viewers decide on our own what we should take away from it.

by Luann98

I like the convenience of having WISN12News to glance at quick news stories, but when a notification headline is sent...I can never find that news story, even seconds after it’s broadcast. Occasionally, I find one interesting and would like to read it right away, so I end up scrolling through the whole headline page and it isn’t there. Please fix that. I shouldn’t have to spend five minutes of my day looking for an alert headline that isn’t there. Thank you.

by Lfriese

I used to enjoy WISN12News a lot, but the latest update is almost unusable. The pop up video ads are annoying enough, but on some pages the same ad pops up over and over again, and you get stuck in an endless loop. As soon as it closes it pops up again, and the only way out is to force close WISN12News .

by Quagmire_1

WISN is my preferred option for news and entertainment and I used to love the old app. Now, there are far too many pop up ads, ads that play automatically, and too many meaningless news alerts. I wish there was a way to choose which I’d like to receive. Additionally, when I do see a news alert that I’d like to read more completely, I swipe to do so and not only does the news alert disappear, I can’t find it listed in WISN12News ! Even when you put the subject in the search field, nothing.

by Hghlndr76

Been a fan of WISN for over 30 yrs, their app is the only news app I use. Usually a good article content, but the proliferation of ads in the articles is very annoying, especially when the ad interrupts an article, completely eliminating part of the article. An option to temporarily erase the offending ads would be greatly appreciated.

by Loony50

Would love to see the news updated with some frequency! Especially on weekend. Check news and weather and they are sometimes almost 24 hrs old especially on the week end. That’s not NEWs! It’s old.
Newscaster’s personalities are great, but need some work on the issues of a few “talking through their noses”. A little speech therapy would certainly up their game in the industry, especially since their actual presentation is great otherwise. Please teach Eden how to say Wauk-e-sha! It’s not Wauk-sha!

by ClareKJ

I wish it wouldn’t be so difficult to get to a story that was worthy of an alert!
Music stops - and when I go the WISN12News , the story is not there! Also I really loved the standalone weather app. It used to be a better setup all around. If I have more steps to go through to get to content - especially content that WISN felt was worthy of interruption - then shouldn’t I be able to find it?!!!

by SusieQSusieQ

I’ve noticed that sometimes there are fewer video ads and ads don’t auto play often now. It used to wake my husband up hen all of a sudden an ad would randomly play. Appreciate not having to watch an entire ad before all news videos now and the ability to skip ads, so I don’t have to watch the same ads over and over. Thank you for heading in the right direction.

by Twixt17

Love the TV station and watch every day.
The printed news needs lots of editing. (Missing words, etc) Plus I can’t stand that so many sentences are cut off so that I can never see the ending that should give pertinent information.
Also the website uses all my phone WiFi within minutes. Other news sites don’t do that.

by Irritated + 1

Channel 12 is my first choice for tv news and the great weather team, and I prefer WISN12News for the weather report. The “but” is for the infuriating interruption of articles by ads which block the end of sentences. This happens often enough that I find myself regularly switching to other local news apps to get the complete story with completed sentences.

by GFlashy

This is definitely my top pick for my daily news!
Only reason for not getting five stars, is that I have noticed that some of your reporters, not to be named, throw the word “a” multiple times within their sentences. Honestly, I don’t even believe it’s a cover for the word “umm”.
Once you start hearing it you can’t stop. It’s kind of annoying.

by EarlyQuiet

I used to ride early and quietly watch your 345 am video weathercast so as not to wake my wife and take the dog out for his first walk. Now you start it with a rather loud auto dealers’ ad at an hour when no one will be out car shopping. Do you think you could just keep it to a printed ad before about 6 am? It would help keep peace at my household.

by Rosie Bush🌹

Love watching the news on wisn and the crew is amazing. I like the way they interact with eat other and joke around at times. I don’t like the way they changed the weather on WISN12News . It use to be easier to check up coming weather and definitely miss it being in color!

by Sunrise Drifter

Although I’m happy for Sally moving on to the next chapter of her life, I will truly miss her. I’ve watched Sally since she started with David Davis and started my family the same time she did. Maybe it is time for me to slow down and enjoy my life too.

WISN does have the best meteorologist around.

by Darnfella

#1 in my book for comprehensive and accurate weather forecast. Sally-#1, she’s been amazingly on top of her game for years. Her impending “retirement“ is not something I’m looking forward to and I hope she not getting pushed out due to female ageism.

#2 Broadcast streaming is fine, I hope ABC and WISN will focus more $ into this part of WISN12News as we consumers want to “eat” our news on demand and not shove national or other cities news stories mixed in (it gets confusing) when consumers would like local information. The economy is good. The advertising costs enough, you are cutting salary budgets by reducing tenured staff, there should be the ability to get more beat reporters

by 4julia

An ad for every story makes me not want to use app! Understand it is a revenue source, but come on. Used to be able to deal with 15 second spots but the 30 seconds is a waste of my time. If I was interested in the products maybe, but car and attorneys-NO

by New Pastime

Love WISN12News and your weather app, too.

I love the ability to get updates on breaking news. Sometimes just enough to read the headline, but always have option to read entire report.

Update: still 5 stars, but if I had to share a gripe, it might be the 10 sec ads before each video. I understand its revenue. Would be nice though to have an option to skip after 5 seconds. If I try to catch up on various videos, it gets quite annoying.

Thought of one other gripe: getting the audible alert after one is asleep. Very seldom happens. (I think one had to do with an awards show result!) I don't want to silence my phone, but would like to have an option to silence the WISN audible alert per a schedule, like from 11pm until 7am.

by Fireflyinthesky08

This is my go to station for news. However, I am getting frustrated with it lately. The ads are insane. They send push notifications for some of the dumbest things - I expect it for an urgent story, not a week old old story (which has occurred a few times in the last few weeks alone). Now every time I open it, it wants my location. I won’t give it and have to click through that. I may switch news apps.

by Bugasasin

Some stories are very questionable as far as source and reliability. Why don’t you take your readership response in consideration? Maybe msm would think better to consider the intelligence of its audience? That is exactly why talk radio is so successful! Talk radio DOES NOT consider their listeners to be low information voters. We listeners constantly challenge the validity of what IS NEWS and what IS NOT news.

by Tired Of Tge Stroll

I enjoy the articles and wide variety of viewpoints. This station does better in the political arena compared to others in being as neutral as possible. That being said, it still needs more work.
And now the “But...”. I’m extremely disappointed that when I click on a story to read or view it, some have really long ads... but worse than those, is when I read a story further down in the list it goes back all the the way to the top.
(In other words I could be reading about something in entertainment, then when I’m done it goes all the way back to first/headline story, then I have stroll all the way down back to my spot in the entertainment stories.)
Ugh...very time consuming.

by Abcdefuckthis

Love watching the news on wisn and the crew is amazing. I like the way they interact with eat other and joke around at times. I don’t like the way they changed the weather on WISN12News . It use to be easier to check up coming weather and definitely miss it being in color!

by Grandma Sugar21

Watch the device then channel 12 news all the time. I watch it on WISN12News on my iPhone. I’m disappointed that you got rid of the weather app. Why do you get rid of it? Are you getting a new one? Other than that I really like channel 12