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WGAL News 8 App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
WGAL News 8 app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using WGAL News 8? Can you share your negative thoughts about wgal news 8?
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✓ Decent basic news coverageI would love to be able to actually read an entire article once. Articles just end mid-sentence and are missing entire parts, which is pretty lame. There’s always room for ads but not complete stories? Also the app keeps freezing when selecting a story to view from the main headlines page. I have to close the app, clear it from queue, re-open and try again. Sometimes several times. And PLEASE change the stories that have been on here for months!! I think everyone has seen the squirrel and dogs by now..Version: 5.13.868
✓ Very disappointed with the changeI used the old app primarily for weather alerts. I find this one cumbersome to use to get to the details of the alert and to get to the radar map in case of a weather emergency where time matters. Just the county is not enough detail in the email notice since thunderstorms rarely cover the entire county at once. I thought I would give the new app some time but still dont like it. I gave it one star because it is better than nothing..Version: 5.13.55
✓ Poorly functioning appOn both my iPhone 7 and even more often on my new iPhone Xs Max, the app routinely either fails to open or opens for a few seconds and then shuts down. In addition to the poor functionality issue, the design is generally uninteresting and not inviting/stimulating enough to peruse. It seems like a design from 5-10 hrs ago when websites were very basic. I am seriously considering deleting this app and using other, more reliable (and apparently more “Apple-friendly”) local news apps..Version: 5.13.223
✓ News reportingThe reporting of political news is very biased and liberal. I have watched WGAL for over 50 years for news and weather. Recently I have stopped watching the news on WGAL because of the bias and prefer to find the news elsewhere. I honestly didn’t notice it so much until the 2016 election when the bias became so blatant. If you want to hear both sides of the issues you won’t find it here..Version: 5.13.996
✓ Touch and Nothing HappensOften when I touch links to new stories and they don’t load. Used to be videos were the issue. The navigation has improved slightly from my last review. Frustrating when it’s a local tv station that it’s so difficult to get the local news. Just ridiculous!.Version: 5.15.93
✓ What programming??You have to watch way too many ads before getting to any shows or movies and when you finally get through them all, site just buffers and buffers. By that time I’ve moved on. Too much work. Not worth it. Too many other options out there..Version: 5.13.722
✓ ClunkyI find the WGAL app to be very buggy. Any given story has parts blocked by advertisements overlaying the text. Way too much advertising. Not very much local news. Lots of “Stitch” which is not news and usually not local. Why on a local news app? On the upside, I like the very prompt notifications of breaking news but usually have to go to a different app to get the story to not become frustrated by ads and graphics overlaying content..Version: 5.13.614
✓ Need Variety and UpdatesCovid is a part of our world but it is NOT all of our “world”. Cover LIFE and ALL that pertains to it, not just Covid, not just the extreme cases of Covid. BROADEN your News and please give unbiased reports. Remove some old, old “stuff” that has been on your app taking up space for months to a year! News is daily!.Version: 5.15.375
✓ Video repeatsI like to watch news in the morning on the app while getting ready for work. For whatever reason, there is a stop, and 3 second repeating of the video, multiple times during my viewing. There have also been times when the video will not play at all. I have stopped using the app to watch live new streaming, and use my Dish Network app instead. It is much more reliable..Version: 5.13.868
✓ Long time viewerWGAL staff are top notch. The app would be more user friendly if you would have written articles rather than videos. Not always in a location where I can watch and listen to them. Would like more local news- can always get national news from other apps. Do like the delay closing info that you provide..Version: 5.13.1
✓ Ads seemingly cut off portion of articlesI primarily use this app to read the articles. However, the articles frequently have at least one paragraph that ends mid sentence. It seems as though the ad that follows cuts it off. The coverage is great but the execution and use of the technology is not. Giving feedback with hope that it can be fixed..Version: 5.13.722
✓ We want WGAL, our local newscastWGAL viewers like The Susquehanna valley and want to tune in to you for Susquehanna valley news. I dislike all of the VUZ videos to get a story. Too many ads that you cannot skip. I am a reader and want to read my news pieces, along with short pics etc that are given from my WGAL cast. I love pieces about my hometown communities and the people that live in them..Version: 5.12.65
✓ Ads, Ads, and more Ads!This is the local station so I’m stuck with what they put out...and it sure isn’t much! Same repetitive ads for any story you click on and they are usually for just a few seconds of worthless content. What ever happened to: what, where, when, who, and why when reporting the news. Most always you get one, maybe two, of the W’s. Really poor coverage. The weather page, my most frequent, is nearly as poor. Very, very limited information. I don’t even bother with any of the junk they put out. Why waste time any further. Such a shame, we need a good news site but we are stuck with this. Get rid of all those ancient news people, they are just dragging down the whole place now. Get up with the times, get fresh new good people and good looking people that are at least pleasant to look at while you boar the crap out of us. Wake up WGAL!.Version: 5.13.270
✓ JCLNot the best app. Too many ads to go thru before getting to the news story. You guys need to look at WRAL in Raleigh, NC. Now that's what a good app looks like. July 18- Not the best app. Too many ads to go thru before getting to the news story. You guys need to look at WRAL in Raleigh, NC. Now that's what a good app looks like. Except since NBC took them over from CBS news was treated more factually and now alt-left group think. Don’t become one of those apps that only are negative about our country and leaders. Other wise the weather app is nice. But when I finish reading an article and go back to main menu you have to start scrolling thru same stuff to get back to where u were. Fix that..Version: 5.13.140
✓ Glitchy- No Live Stream!My cable company dropped this channel, but I really like their news and weather, so wanted to live stream it on my phone. The app offers live streaming of their newscasts, but when I try to watch, the app crashes right after the ad that precedes the stream. I used to be able to get it to work on the 3rd try, but now it crashes every time. Disappointing..Version: 5.13.270
✓ App needs workI have an iphone 8. Not sure if it is not large enough for this app but I always have issues with the stories just ending without being finished. You cannot click or scroll. Sometimes the title is incomplete. There are ads in between as you scroll and I am not sure if that covers some words. I it very frustrating. I hate video news and try to read the articles. The is my local news too which makes it worse because 90% of the time app is useless with partial stories..Version: 5.13.926
✓ Constant covid headingThe constant “breaking news - covid” constantly being in the entire upper third of the screen every time you open the app is incredibly annoying. And it never goes away, even when you scroll— the heading scrolls with you! It’s been a year. This is not breaking news..Version: 5.15.375
✓ Too many adsI find it very frustrating that we must listen to an ad before being able to access the news story. I realize that the ads are would pay the bills for this site. I would much prefer being able to read the news site and then having an ad pop up before moving onto the next news story..Version: 5.13.223
✓ Weather alerts annoyingIn general, the app is fine. However, the weather alerts do not filter out “helpful suggestions” from severe weather. I will get messages before dawn such as “you might want an umbrella today.” Or, after a severe thunderstorm has already arrived, “lightning detected in your area.” Can we get the important weather when it’s important, and have a setting to block all the junk?.Version: 5.15.93
✓ Too many out of area reports/commercialsWhen I first began using this app it was more focused on my local news. After all it's the WGAL app, not the NBC app which is where I would expect national news. Also, the ads have gotten longer and more frequent. The really ridiculous thing about them though is that 98% of them are WGAL ads! If I'm on their app, what do they think I'm watching??? Not a good usage of data..Version: 5.11.6
✓ InconsistentOk, but lately I’ve noticed when I try to click on anything it just freezes the whole app. I can’t read or watch the story it’s just a blank screen. Thought the update would help but it doesn’t. Sad because I like the app and depend on it. Now it seems I may have to delete it altogether. No news makes it worthless..Version: 5.13.926
✓ Show a locationI wish you would show in your notifications what county an incident occurred in when I’m at my desk at work and you bring up an incident. I am not happy when I open the notification And find it’s a county or two away. I don’t like having to open my phone at work over issues that doesn’t effect me. I will delete your app soon..Version: 5.15.1323
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