WESH 2 News - Orlando Reviews

WESH2News is average and the main problem is when you receive a notification about a particular article in Notification Center and click the notification, WESH2News is merely opened. You are not taken to that specific article. This makes WESH2News much less useful to me. If I click the notification I want to be taken to that article. Most every app that displays something in Notification Center takes you to that particular subject when WESH2News opens.

Edit: There have been several app updates since I wrote the review a while ago. The issue has not been fixed. When you click on a push notification you are brought to the main page and not the specific article the push was for. WESH2News is now uninstalled. I can not think of another app where you select the notification and are not directed to the specific article. Bye WESH 2 news.

Used to use WESH2News as my first source of news. Have noticed most of the content is extremely negative with very little positive news. Local news text alerts are horrifying, babies being mailed to death... I had to remove alerts because (although I know bad things unfortunately do happen) I can’t take hearing such horrifying news every single day!
I have also given up on streaming news because the ads are so terribly long, by the time the news loads... the spacex rocket has already launched or I have lost interest in trying to see the news and moved onto something else.
Please bring back a more user friendly app for your long time viewers who just want relevant news that may affect us in our area!

I’ve reviewed a handful of apps ever, but needed to write one for this.

Content is fresh, mostly local. Like their website news is not updated after the initial story, and they don’t have the same news stories they had on air. The worst is on weekends WESH2News blasts clickbait notifications that have nothing to do with local news and you can’t turn it off. I kept WESH2News for now but disabled all notifications of news. The other bothersome, but important part of ads. When you get a notification of some urgent content like say a tornado warning, you have to watch a long ad before you view the news. I understand the ad setup, it this gets quite frustrating when it’s important.

Your news anchors along with the rest of your staff are very professional, respond to messages and comments, are always nicely dressed and take their responsibilities seriously. But at the same time they display some sense of humor when it is appropriate. I watch many of your news programs daily and the only change I would like to see is a little variation between the topics between 4-5-6 and between 10 and 11.

I love WESH and for the most part I like WESH2News . My biggest complaint is when I get a news alert or want to open an article, it automatically starts playing an ad....loudly if my phone volume isn't turned off. This is inconvenient and there should be a way to open an article and not have the ad before the story start playing right away. I close out of WESH2News and never read the article when this happens. It's too aggravating and embarrassing if it happens when others are around me.

It’s very reassuring to know I can find any all stories happening in my area and all the way to the coast. I can’t always catch the evening broadcast, but I can always check into WESH2News . Emergency alerts, weather, major crimes, sports, special interest, arts and happenings and all the stories that bring a smile to my face. I feel like they’ve tried very hard to give the big picture. What more could I ask for?!! Just keep up the good work!!!

I find your app to be one of the more reliable news sources. Thank you for your dedication to timely and accurate information. I'm also impressed by the range of your TV News Anchors. The longevity of those like Dan, Claire and Gail is perfectly complimented by Jazmin, Stuart, Meredith, Jim and Stewart. Thank you for building and sustaining the careers of so many. The depth of the reporting is greatly enhanced because of their dedication.

WESH News app has done an Outstanding job at keeping me updated and well informed! And FAST and ON TIME! I can be at home but in my kitchen , where national news can be heard from the den but my WESH News app has ALREADY alerted me on my phone nearby occurrences!!! Coming from the West coast so much of this can be new info to my knowledge and WESH News app delivers CLEAR AND EFFICIENTLY!!!
Thanx and keep up the good work!!!

If you live in the Orlando area and want breaking news alerts without more information this is WESH2News for you!

You will get multiple alerts a day, mostly meaningless spam and the few worth looking into won’t open in WESH2News . Actually WESH2News doesn’t open but has a beautiful loading screen animation that I could stare at for hours while wondering what other information was relevant until I fall asleep.

Overall 0/10 go find another news app for Orlando this one is awful. Despite the garbage app WESH news is reliable.

I love your station, and I go to your app first for my local news when I’m away from the house. Please, please stop running ads when there’s an emergency, such as BAD WEATHER. During Hurricane Irma, I needed updates, and freaking everything I tried to see cost me minutes of previous time watching advertisements! I uninstalled your app after that for months as a protest—I’m sure you didn’t care that you list ONE user... but please. Use common sense.

I live in eastern Polk Co so of course my tv services cover Tampa and not Orlando.....I was so happy to see that part of WESH2News was live streaming of the news. Well, it’s terrible. It makes you sit through anywhere from 2-12 adds at a time and when it returns it’s in the middle of the story......it’s so glitchy, it freezes then goes black, it also plays like a broken record, it will play the same 15 seconds or so several times.....please fix this I was happy to see my favorite news channel streamed, but WESH2News needs so much work

Navigating through the weather portion of this phone app is annoying...or I’m not seeing things clearly enough..all I want to do is check the weather with radar. I watch the news if i want, do not need to see it here too...very much miss the previous weather only app.

Also, I get nothing but a black screen when I open WESH2News . Have deleted and reloaded to no avail. Has been happening for two weeks at least. I’ve stopped even trying to open it...thank God for the NOAA app so I can track the weather reliably.

They are extremely slow at keeping articles current. One example-Today is May 26. This is the first day the articles with supposedly the updated Covid-19 information isn’t from May 4.
When a notification for breaking news pops up and you click on the link, it doesn’t take you to the breaking news, it takes you to the main page. They keep old news on the main page. Just disappointed with WESH2News. Doesn’t reflect or compliment the news team very well.

This is my favorite for the news but there’s WAY TOO MANY ADS!! You can’t watch a video without an ad and most of the time it’s the same one repeated in each video. You can’t understand half of what she’s saying so it’s a waste of time anyway. I’ve quit watching most videos because of this. Plus I get an alert on my phone for a story, click on it but many times it doesn’t take me to it. Without these issues I would give 5 stars.

We moved here from New York. After checking all the local news channels, we chose WESH 2. Your news stories are reported with the facts with no agenda by your station. It is refreshing and informative. The American public is quite capable of hearing facts and making an informed decision. I thank you and applaud you on your faith in your viewership

Hello folks, I moved to Florida with the family 40 years ago from Western New York. We have been watching Channel 2 since the move! There has always been good journalism combined with appealing reporters, unbiased and fair!!! Plus I am an avid fan of NBC World News also, the channel stays right there!
Thanks for all you do!!!

I just love how Wesh2 shows what’s going on in the local counties. Especially the weather. No other news app/stations tell what’s happening in my county. Since I’ve only lived in Kissimmee for almost five years now. So that information is especially important. 👍🙂

I installed WESH2News over a year ago. I turned notifications on after the Coronavirus pandemic was in full force. However, when I click on a notification the first thing to open is an ad or promotion video. There are so many intrusive ads in WESH2News that it makes it annoying and a waste of time to attempt to read the news report or watch a video. I decided to delete WESH2News . I’ll try using their website to see if it is more useful.

You know what’s annoying? Getting an alert from WESH2News, swiping on the notification expecting to be taken straight to the article or video, only to be taken to the home page and not being able to even find the article or video. What’s the point in even giving notifications if the user can’t find the article or making them scroll continuously to find it? There’s no point in even having push notifications on for WESH2News

Lots of up to date information and a big start with the weather and road conditions. I like the morning team and it makes me feel they are friends and want me to “join in” on their get together. Well done.

I been watching many of our local news stations for 40 years how ever with the news team they have from News to sports to the weather they make me feel they care about others where they live among all of us ,and the new reporters they have found has made me feel they are replacing and adding good young people in there staff who doing and will even get better in reporting the News and there tony who get on face book And talks to many of us live many nights of the week who reaches out to all of us making us family like then one of your newest reporters Miss Brown is growing in front of our eyes as a top reporter for WESH. Well I can’t believe my channel like frozen when it comes to news time because when I got WESH on tv I know I getting top news ,top sports reports and out standing weather news thanks for the winning team ,lee in stcloud

I know you are apparently under pressure to be “on top of the news”, but the words “breaking news” should be stricken from your reporters in my view due to over use by all networks.

Additionally, telling us what you do not know seems to be getting more air time than telling us what you do know.

Dan Laemont

I appreciate all of the hard work it takes to offer the information that gives so many readers the news of what is happening in our corner of the world each day. News is always full of good and bad things and all of us have a choice to filter through it and find what we need and want to know.

I was a WFTV person until 2 years ago I just got tired of the same silly stuff that they do. So I started watching you on weekends with Alex and Eric then I started watching during the week and I was hooked . I love the personal touch between anchors primarily Jason and Michelle. Thank you for such a great team of personnel

There are some things that I am happy I got WESH2News for... ex: I was going to go see a movie but I saw an alert that there was a shooting at my local theater, so I didn’t go. But other things are pointless I get alerts for things that really aren’t anybody’s concern like things about a love letter that was found from 1977 like nobody cares about that i only need this for important things and WESH2News does that.