40/29 News - Fort Smith Reviews

I will preface that I understand the fluff lifestyle articles featured on 4029News (and the website) generates revenue for them. But for me, the format in which they feature these click bait pieces drives me crazy. Regular ads I can tolerate, but the "lifestyle" slide-show articles mixed within the local / proper news feels disorganized and tabloid-y. To be fair, this is not the only news app or website that populates non-news 'sponsored content' articles into it's proper news feed and, as mentioned earlier, I understand it's income and keeps 4029News free. But it's a format that increasingly 1) doesn't work for me, 2) tests my patience and 3) makes my visits to apps and websites like this very short.

For some unknown and annoying reasons, a sentence will stop midway especially if there is an advertisement you have to scroll past. Many times the whole final section(s) of the article will be cut off. It makes trying to read any news on 4029News frustrating. I no longer try 90% of the time and just read the headlines. The other 10% of the time, I try in hopes that they have finally read their own articles on 4029News and figured out this is an issue. But since I am writing this today - nope!

Anytime I log on to watch the love news on my phone, I first have to watch a commercial. After that the news MIGHT come on or it might not. I’ve left my phone on while getting ready in the morning and 9 out of 10 times, the news will never come back from commercial and I’ll be left staring at a black screen. Super frustrating. I’d rather watch it live on FaceBook if they gave me the option.

Up-to-date, timely
I wish there were better spell check and grammar checks in place
I think it’s embarrassing and challenges your validity when it appears that no one even cares to look for errors
I am loyal to 40/29, so I hope I see an improvement!

I read the news daily on 4029News and find that there’s rarely new content published. I waste more time scrolling through to find new content only to discover a handful. When I do find new content and attempt to read it, I find it was not proofread before it was published. It’s very common to see sentences with extra words from a copy and paste scenario where in order for the sentence to make sense, one or more words should have been removed.

It seems that it takes forever to get the news from the notifications that are sent out! Would be nice to read when they are sent not minutes later!!

Good information, glad to have a local news app on my phone, but it is impossible to scroll without clicking 2 or 3 links in the process. They literally take up all of the page and when there is an ad every time I come back to the same video after hitting one of these links, I get so frustrated I don’t even care for the news anymore.

Love 4029News. Only issue I have is, when I get a notification about a news story or weather alert, if I don’t click on the notification immediately, and just open 4029News to find it myself, I can’t always find it.

Is to worried about national news and doesn’t focus on the local news
and by the time they post anything it is “ancient history”.
They need more local people that actually care about the area rather than someone just worrying about looking good and adding to their resume.

But like others have stated, if you don’t open the headline as soon as it comes across the feed, it is difficult (if not impossible) to find the actual story. But other than that. Love it.

For a local news APP, I do not find this one very helpful. I’ve lived in various parts of the country and this one does not measure up. Not really a news app. Most are just “stories” that are more human interest. Was hoping this would be a place I could come to for current news in the area. You would be better off getting your “news” elsewhere

It’s incredibly annoying that videos automatically play when I try to open a story. When I get a breaking news alert I used to be able to click it and quickly read the story. Now if I do that I am immediately met with a blaring ad video automatically playing, which is not always appropriate for my environment.

I prefer 40/29 in all news/weather/sports over other broadcast! In this crisis all stations are falling behind in breaking news notifications for Gov Hutchinson & Whitehouse updates. By the time the alert comes through the live secession are already in progress.
I still highly respect & prefer 49/29!

Too often a bulletin is sent out but unless you click on the actual notification the news story is not posted. You cannot find the story for a considerable amount of time by just going to the news site. They do NOT proof read anything. Example from their news “3.7 Earthquake in Northern Arkansas in NW Arkansas.”

Good app, easy to find stories I’m looking for, except when I hear alarm for a breaking news story. If I don’t get to my phone quickly when I go to see what’s up I can’t find the story. Other wise it’s easy to navigate.

I would like to give this a five star rating but due to the weather forecast for several days out, it is always different than what is shown during your weather forecast during the news.

I’ve had the 40/29 app for several years. Recently they’ve updated it and there is a full page ad that pops up with annoying loud people yelling and you can’t close it for 5-8sec. I guess I’ll delete 4029News if it keeps up. Sad cause I really like 4029News . Very disappointed 😔 app user.

The only problem and it’s a big one is getting a notification but not being able to find it if you don’t click the notification immediately!

It I find it a little hard to navigate. Seems like I’ve clicked on a headline or notice and it takes me to a page rather than to the story I tried to access. I’m not a heavy user of 4029News as I mainly am looking for links to weather, but might use it more if I felt it was easier to maneuver.

It’s all about it’s listening area and it is the best news and weather channel in our opinion it is the most accurate they are the only one we watch!!!

Great news app, however every time you go a few days without opening it, it leaves you a pop up notification that says “you’re missing us, open 4029News ”. After a while it’s annoying enough that you’ll want to turn off notifications altogether.

Before some of the last iOS upgrades I always use 40/29 news app (when I wanted news) and the 40/29 weather app (when I wanted weather) I started getting alerts that the weather app was going away, so I updated bad mistake. The new 40/29 News/weather app is the worst app ever! what happened to all the weather features? Very disappointing. Will be deleting the new app shortly unless they improve soon.

The only issue I have is: when more than one notification pops up that I’m interested in, I can’t always find second or third ones.

I enjoy the website but it needs updating more often. There are pictures of a fire on Hwy 96 2 years ago I believe. The other pictures in that section are older also. Would love to see more updates content.

4029News auto plays video, with sound, with no way to mute them. Only with Ads. While it creates a tremendous amount of revenue for 40/29 and Hearst, it’s incredibly annoying with you open an article in a quiet setting and an irrelevant ad just starts playing as loud as can be when you don’t want to even watch a video.