Spectrum News: Local Stories Reviews

THANK YOU! Finally a much needed, long overdue update. I had assumed SpectrumNews had just been forgotten about. I can’t tell you how great it is to be able to watch In The Papers and get my local NY1 News — especially when I have to travel for work. It’s the single reason I have kept paying for a Spectrum Cable subscription and was ready to just let it go and use streaming services instead.
One bit of feedback... I’m surprised it wasn’t designed as being “dark mode.” Hmm. Especially on an iPad screen there’s just way too much white space. It’s an odd choice. So, please at least add the option for a dark mode toggle. With more and more OLED displays and overall majority of iOS users opting for Dark Mode, it just makes the most sense.

I like the news people and the weather people. Both divisions seem to be believable and honest and I have a sense that they are actually reporting rather than editorializing.

I think this is a truly great service and I enjoy knowing that what I’m finding out about Ohio is at least reasonable and believable.

I think all of the folksThat I have watched are enjoyable as well. They relate to me as a viewer and in many ways most of them seem to be talking directly to me which is a wonderful attribute

I can’t believe that this is considered a “good enough” replacement to the spectrum news 13 app. “The new app has all of the same features as the old one” no it does not spectrum, I can no longer see the amazing radar that use to update every minute and was VERY accurate and VERY useful and VERY helpful! My job requires me going in and out of buildings often & traveling to different locations constantly and I would use the news 13 radar to see where the storms are to know what to expect when to expect it and what route to alter. NOT ANYMORE! The new radar is AWFUL and does not show you every minute, it is impossible to get it to show you anything useful.. SpectrumNews IS in fact nice but only nice for news.. NOT local news/weather. I am giving this 1 star for the lack of radar support & for the FORCED change over without having a suitable replacement.

Whenever I receive a Push Notification from the Spectrum News App about a breaking/developing story, I click on the notification to read the story, and 100% of the time I am directed to a page telling me to sign in for access to Spectrum News. Even though I am already signed in. I hit the back button within SpectrumNews , and then I’m on the front page News. I can see the articles, because I’m already signed in. I then have to use the search function within SpectrumNews to look for the article, and just hope I remember enough key words to find the article, which is not always accomplishable. I’m hoping that, one day, I will be able to click on a Spectrum News Push Notification and then immediately be taken to the associated article.

I live in the Hudson Valley and work in NYC. My cable package rightfully includes Spectrum News 1 for the Hudson Valley as well as NY1. However, I am unable to (or cannot figure out how to) follow stories and read journalists from both channels on SpectrumNews . I can even watch NY1 in SpectrumNews . This would be really, really, really, nice given the massive overlap in essential coverage needs, from sports to transportation to state politics. So, please. And thank you.

I mainly use SpectrumNews to check the live weather, however the radar focus mostly tries to show you the future movement of storms rather than letting you rewind and see where the storms are coming from and the way they’ve been moving. It always starts with the live radar feed and jumps ahead and I wish it would let you rewind so you can make a better determination of where a storm is headed. The predictive radar it gives isn’t very accurate either. The old app was much better for radar.

Your entire news programming is miraculous in this day of contention and anger. You present the news and commentary on important things without the usual media biases which are characteristic of most of the other news media. Your programming is broad and varied, quite interesting, and educational. Your commentators are varied in age and ethnicity, real people. Thank you, and congratulations.

SpectrumNews has potential but I really miss the old News 13 app. This new app doesn’t have a good radar. They barely ever report on the weather. They will make one report at 6am and leave it up all day. I want hour by hour weather reports on whats going to happen throughout the day. The new weather radar glitches all the time. And not to mention they’re such a biased news network. They need to be reporting on the truth instead of what toilet paper Fauci uses. Fix your app and start doing the right thing.

Ipad’s older than 4 years are not capable of updating IOS above 12.5, either renew the license for the previous version or make SpectrumNews compatible. Our 2 units are brand new, however under the apple battery exchange program, the replaced units are built to the identical specifications of the units exchanged. Therefore allowing the IOS specificities to follow suit! Now that you know that, there are not many units with reduced IOS Capabilities going out to pasture, there is a need for older IOS platform apps. Apple does not exchange batteries, they exchange the unit to new, not refurbished, identical units, in the event that your theory is they will fade away after their 5 year life span!

I’m loving this news app, especially that I can watch the news live, as I only have the internet service, not a tv package. It’s a huge quality of life improvement, so thank you. However, SpectrumNews signs me out twice every session, so about every 30-45 minutes, I have to hit sign in and my stream is interrupted. Once that’s fixed, this will easily get a 5* upgrade. Thanks again!

Really don’t care for the new Spectrum/Bat News 9 app that we were forced to update too. The Bay news 9 app alone was easy to navigate and never had issues while using it. Getting to our local weather was easy to access and see the map in a stationary position and or choose to see the Doppler Radar in action. This new app isn’t very user friendly, it’s confusing and over all plain. The work needed to be put towards having more anchors on the news so we don’t hear the same news stories over, and over and over daily. Thanks, but no thanks.

This is a great app that I love to use to keep up with local news but for the past few weeks I haven’t been able to login so I cannot view any content. I’ll get a notification, click on it to view, and when SpectrumNews opens it asks me to sign in with my spectrum service logins. When I input my logins it says they’re invalid. (They’re not because I can log in to spectrum to pay my bill)

I’ve spoken with spectrum customer service who are, as usual, incredibly unhelpful. They told me to delete SpectrumNews and re download which I have done a few times and I still run into the issue.

I’m not one to usually leave reviews but I’m not sure how else to let someone know that I’m having this issue and hope for a possible solution.

I would really love to view the news again but I’m getting to the point where I’ll just have to use a different app- please help!

I’m going to miss SpectrumNews when it goes behind a paywall within the next few days. Spectrum’s sky high fees make this unaffordable, for many folks anyway. Spectrum and their advertisers will be missing a large potential audience that might otherwise see their content.

Absolutely horrible, way to much to complain about, and not enough time to write. They want you to sign in every time just to use SpectrumNews , lack luster weather page (for a news station that prides themselves on weather) that doesn’t even include wind speeds anymore like the old app did, no marine forecast, etc. Just a horrible app, but hey “it looks cool” and completely not worth the download. The old app was waaaaaay waaaaaay better! Don’t waste your time with this crap, the unreliable IPhone weather is better, and that’s saying something

I used to have the news 13 app for many years and I loved it. Then spectrum took over. I went into settings and adjusted my preferences to what news alerts I want to receive. That was 4 months ago. I have yet to receive an alert. Now when you want to read a story you have to sign in. Ridiculous. It’s bad enough that like every news channel out there 13 has become very biased but now I have to put up with signing in so I can be monitored. So me and my family have deleted SpectrumNews from our phones. Done.

I have Spectrum for phone, TV, and internet but when I downloaded the new app, I get an error message that the HTTP Proxy is not supported. It tells me I must log off and open SpectrumNews without being logged into my internet account. It’s a Spectrum app and it can’t work if I’m connected to Spectrum internet!? When I try to get support for their app, I get the run around and no one seems to be able to assist. I’m told to disconnect and SpectrumNews will work so what’s the problem? I’ll keep the old app, never had an issue with it!!!

I absolutely love not only SpectrumNews, but the spectrum news team! Specifically in the Tampa Bay Area. SpectrumNews allows you to do so many things, I’m sure I’m not even fully utilizing it and I still think it’s great. Weather and non-biased news is great and very accessible.

I was using the spectrum news site online regularly, until it changed a week or two ago. Working from home, I could have Spectrum News live on a device, iPad, and minimize it while checking my emails.

This isn’t possible anymore, thus I’m going back to other news sources.

Please change back, if possible. You’ll keep people using SpectrumNews .

I live in the Tampa Bay Area, and my old Bay News 9 app was recently converted to this one. I frequently used the old app for the Klystron 9 weather map, as it was super precise and accurate… but this new weather map is SO choppy and hard to see when the rain is predicted to hit my specific area. PLEASE PLEASE integrate the old Bay News 9 weather map into SpectrumNews!! This one is as useless as all the other weather maps available online.

I love spectrum news, I wake up at 5am with ybeth
Brutal and the team every morning! It makes my day, just to hear a little bit of news gets me started. I know if I need an umbrella ☂, traffic and that slow downs. Gives me direction. Love the news team ❤️

Functionally, SpectrumNews seems quite stable at this early vantage point, as most components interconnect with one another seamlessly. One drawback that i'm sure will be addressed in the coming days, as this is a virgin app, is the ability to pause or stop live video all the while staying logged in to then be able to watch embedded video that is part of articles. But for a first step, SpectrumNews takes a giant one. Keep at it!

SpectrumNews keeps telling me that my subscription package does not include this programming. I have a a subscription. Please fix. Tried logging out and logging in even deleted SpectrumNews and reinstalling.

Won’t let me watch video. SpectrumNews seams “dead” no one at Spectrum support understand the problem or how or who can fix it. I was talking to someone in California who has never heard or seen SpectrumNews or NY1.

SpectrumNews load the news sometimes without using the live button and your have to use the syncing button to see the programs after you scroll up or down on the screen. This happens on this iPad Pro 2nd Gen all the time. SpectrumNews needs to be updated.

January 30, 2018
This spectrum news app still have same problems as I stated above on October 13, 2017. Apple said it is the developer that has to fix SpectrumNews. The last updates didn’t fix this spectrum news app.

February 6,2018, this spectrum news app have not worked on this iPad Pro so I finally deleted SpectrumNews. Maybe one day they will fix/update SpectrumNews so it will work on apple new products

I just downloaded SpectrumNews . It looks nice and fresh. But when you dig in deeper you see that the news is from four days ago, five days ago, seven days ago. I read the news every day and I don’t want to see repeated old news. The news needs to be from the day you’re looking at it for it to be worthwhile. Of course, that’s my opinion.

Why when I try to watch In The Papers on SpectrumNews, it’s telling me I don’t have a subscription for it? What?? I have access to that channel and was even able to watch yesterday. What’s going on? Also when I call the number they tell me I should have access. Help! No on the phone is able to.

Since Spectrum purchased Time Warner the quality of the service has gone from fair to mediocre. Prices have risen, no specials are offered, and signal quality varies. Were it not for the Hallmark Channel, which is impossible to find elsewhere, we would have been gone yesterday.

I should have the ability to watch the news without logging in. Especially since cable and internet is INCLUDED in my rent. I don’t have a login.

10 days,will not allow me to log in since last up date

Latest up date will not allow you to sign in
Tried everything including support people.
I count on SpectrumNews often.
Log in or service provider does not show.
It will ask you to log in for live feed then no response. Just sits there with SpectrumNews open and a blank video screen.
This occurred after Latest update was run.
Need this spectrum news app!
What goes?

I wanted to like SpectrumNews. But I went to the sports section and it only had old sports news from 2 weeks previous. A news app. Should be current to the hour. I deleted SpectrumNews .

stopped working on IOS12 on Ipad Pro 12in, as with everything Spectrum. these days nothing works. In the old days TWC apps worked and kept current with IOS updates, time to consider other cable alternatives

It's lacking Orlando in the drop down for choosing my area, even though they advertise SpectrumNews on mynews13...

They didn’t update it so it doesn’t work anymore.

Fix SpectrumNews so one can choose any state for "select your region ". I'm in Tampa Florida so SpectrumNews is useless. Thank you.

Login for SpectrumNews is blank and it only leads me to buy spectrum website

It does in Florida