News 9 Negative Reviews

News 9 App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

News 9 app received 17 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using News 9? Can you share your negative thoughts about news 9?

News 9 for Negative User Reviews

✓ News 9I have always been a News 9 viewer, however, the Internet site is not quite what it can be. I realize you probably need the commercials to help fund the site but the way they are presented is difficult to get to the end of the articles. I have yet to reach the end of one of the non-news items simply because you cannot just scroll down and read it you have to flip from page to page to page. If the new articles were in the same format, I would delete the app. Personally, I could do away with anything but your news articles. It is my personal opinion that you’re advertising will continue to hold the five star rating back, which is what the news department actually deserves. You are drifting towards liberal. Don’t. Put some controls on the videos. I like to browse the news at night and all of a sudden a video starts blaring and wakes the family up. U can do better..Wordmaster56Version: 3.3.4600

✓ Push notices no storyI hate getting a push notice and advised to click to read about story, then do that and the story is not available yet. I suggest don’t send push notice unless story is ready to be viewed. I also ask during weather events you stop the commercial ads before being able to get see David Payne and the weather team. I really don’t care to see a furniture ad when I am concerned what is heading my way. I understand commercial ads pay for app but when lives and property is at risk I ask you to stop them..WessokcVersion: 3.3.4201

✓ App is great when it works properlyFor the past week or two the app occasionally locks up when I access it thru Facebook and won’t let me close it out. The only way to unlock it and access facebook is to restart my phone. This is the only app this is happening with. I like channel 9, but this is really annoying so I’ve had to use the other news channel apps. Please fix this so I can use channel 9 again..KellyD1228Version: 4.2

✓ Annoying ads & pop upsThe app is ok... Often the headlines on the breaking news banner is dead links, and the weather reports are hard to find....wish that live weather streaming was available in bad weather events like on TV. But what really gets me is the annoying ads everywhere. Everytime there's a loading screen, you click to watch a segment, try to watch the weather report or just in the text of stories. You have to be really careful where you touch or click to avoid them. However, all the news apps for OKC are like this. Thankfully, news 9 does have the stories, as another outlet only does videos, with lots of ads. News 9 is doing that part right. ✌️.Rach.P3Version: 3.3.4600

✓ Good App, but the Notifications!I love News 9, they are in my opinion the best weather station in Oklahoma...but their notification system...like seriously I get notifications every hour of the day and why!? I have my notification settings to only notify me for weather and closings, so please tell me why I'm getting notifications for news and other stuff? It's getting so annoying to the point I'm thinking of disabling notifications all together, but I really don't want to because I'd to be informed about the weather, if not I get severe anxiety. So please fix your notification system. UPDATE: They changed their ESP Radar and I personally hate it. I loved the previous one, it was my go to for the weather because it was so well detailed. I'm just really disappointed on the change and hope they fix it....Ollie756Version: 3.3.4600

✓ Worst OKC News AppThis app is 100% an ad delivery money-making vehicle for News9. Click a notification for a story, the app opens and IMMEDIATELTY plays a video commercial. Close the video, and the story you tapped for doesn't even appear, AND you can't even find it on the main screen! You can't customize your notifications to only get breaking news, weather, and/or traffic. You MUST also accept whatever dumb/unimportant stories they want you to get a notification for (so you'll open the app to see an ad). I deleted the app from all my devices. Stick with the other two OKC news apps—they're so much better. You can actually customize your notifications and read the story you came for..W.D.K.Version: 6.2

✓ Great App. Needs some polish.I love being able to load up the app and get OKC news and weather quickly (especially when I'm not near a TV). The splash screen (to a lesser extent) and then full page advertisement are irritating enough to make me not want to open the app at times. I understand you all need to monetize it somehow, but the full screen ad isn't as good a user experience as can be done, I think. The banner alerts could be done better with a single fixed height banner that rotates among the available alerts..SonicdevoVersion: 3.3.4600

✓ Notifications! Ugh!!When you turn off "programming" in the app you still get those idiotic "news alerts" that read like, "Something exciting happened to blah blah person. Find out what next on news 9!" I'm fine with weather alerts, breaking news, school closings, etc. But this new FLOODING of my notification wall daily with these just tempts me to uninstall the app, not turn on the news. If the story is on the OTA TV broadcast news and NOT in the app, then the app shouldn't notify me about it. Or... I should at least have the option to opt out of them. Also I rarely can click on a "breaking news" notification and actually find the story in the app until an hour later..BigDaddy9zVersion: 3.3.3800

✓ I love news 9 butI love news 9 but there are times you can’t watch it your phone. I’m taking a wild guess, I think there’s a switch you have to turn on for the news when it’s on and a lot of times it doesn’t get turned on. Let’s get efficient on making sure it’s turned on. I know there were times when the noon news would go off and I could watch what was afterwards but then immediately before the noon news was getting ready to go off air it goes dead on the phone. So there is some kind of switch or button to turn it on and off..Speedyt1961Version: 4.4

✓ Horrible app!Such a horrible app and their updates just keep making it worse! 1) Updates way more often than an app should (probably explains the issues I’m having). They still have yet to get it right after several chances and several years with the app. 2) Loading times for videos are very slow on any of their pages. This is probably due to the 15 ads they allow on their pages. I can understand being shown an ad or two but so many ads that it effects my app usage is not acceptable. 3) Audio skips and/or repeats. This happens while the video keeps playing. So trying to understand the weather or anything is next to impossible. 4) as a page loads the page jumps up and down as it’s loading. This is probably due to the large and small formatted ads on the page. It Just makes it inconvenient to try to read a story on the app while the page fully loading. This happens on 2 different iPhones, 1 new (iPhone11) and 1 older (iPhone7) so I know it’s not a phone processor issue. I don’t dare use this app without a WiFi connection as it takes forever to load, PLUS I don’t want to wait or pay data charges for their 15 ads. It’s best to either watch the news channel on TV or just download an app from another news channel that u trust..Its time for some actionVersion: 4.7

✓ How many people do you have to lose?I'm with many of the other reviewers that the notification pop ups are getting INSANELY out of control. When I first installed it a long time ago it was pretty much breaking news,weather and traffic alerts. Now the pop ups consist of teases to tune in and straight up nonsense. I'm not exaggerating I will wake up in the morning to 10-12 pop ups some mornings. Needless to say I'm going to delete it. From all the people I know who have the app are getting rid of it too. So I ask how many people do you have to lose before you tap the brakes on he notifications?.Oklahoma yetiVersion: 3.3.4101

✓ Commercial or news?News 9 used to have a decent app, pretty advanced compared to other local news channels. However, their recent app overhaul has turned the app into nothing but a commercial for the local casinos. Want to see what the “breaking news” is all about? You’ll have to wait for the overloaded app to finally load, then you’ll have to wait for the casino commercial to load so that you can “X” out of the ad. If you’re not careful and tap too soon, you’ll be redirected to the casino ad. NO THANKS! I’ll just use one if the other local stations apps..GottwinboysVersion: 4.2

✓ Nice app but...This app has a nice layout and easy to use. Couple issues though. Most all of the news stories are videos with no text options. I also like getting push notifications of breaking news but they have recently started pushing teasers for upcoming news broadcasts which is simply too many to filter. Had to turn notifications off which means I won't get any important news from this app any longer..SemrehjVersion: 3.3.3800

✓ Frustrating...I don't know why they even bother to send out news alerts for stories. Probably more than 90% of the time when I click on one of the news alerts that pop up on my screen, the story is NEVER there! I pull down the screen to refresh it multiple times and it never shows up. Maybe after 15 or 20 minutes the story might finally show up, but what is the purpose in sending out the alert if you don't even have the story in the feed to be seen?? Otherwise it is a good app and easy to use, I guess I should just turn off the alerts so I don't waste time trying to see the breaking news stories... Update - I’m not sure whose idea it was to make the daily weather forecast now be pushed out at almost 7am instead of closer to 6am like it used to be, but I’m just about out the door by that time. I’m switching weather alerts to whoever sends them out early enough to be useful again..SoonerdaddioVersion: 3.3.4201

✓ Media is dividing our nationUnfortunately News 9 is getting pulled in and judged because you are an affiliate of cbs. I cannot with good faith watch your station anymore because of the sickening coverage of all things political by cbs. The media is the main problem in all of this division. This sickens me because I have watched your station all of my life and I really miss it. We must all make a stand against the mainstream media. I sound radical and I have never been a real hardcore political person. I have always tried to vote the MAN not the party but the left which includes the media had pushed me far right. I will have your app on my phone only because of the weather but will only watch your station for weather. I wish that the local news in all states would stand up to your affiliates and give a voice to your viewers. Not all of us want to hear negative all the time!! If you have dirt on someone bring them in and let them defend themselves before you report. Things are better than ever in our country. My 401k is up over 100,000 this year. No one talks about that. What is wrong with people. This has to be the craziest thing I have ever seen..Soonerman-95Version: 3.3.4600

✓ Nice to carry the news with you.My only suggestion is to put the new stories up before sending out the alert that pops up. When you swipe a pop up and get to the page of stories, the one that poped up isn't there yet so it's pointless to send the alert. Otherwise, it's nice to have News 9 in the palm of my hand whenever I want it. Some improvements but it's still happening at least half of the time..Horse_lover69Version: 3.3.3800

✓ Poorly designed appApp is super monetized, they send you notifications for everything and you can’t opt on for weather alerts only which is 95% of the reason everybody downloads this app. Every time they publish a new story they send you a notification and every time you click on that notification, it never opens to the actual article the notification was about. Also they play ads every single time you reload the page a video/stream is playing on so you miss important tornado warning information because you’re watching the same glass and siding commercial for the 1000th time that night..Kyle9573684Version: 7.2

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