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WTAE Pittsburgh's Action News4 App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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WTAE Pittsburgh's Action News4 for Negative User Reviews
✓ Good and BadThe top of the main page has good with up to date information and news. As you get closer to the bottom, the same information appears day after day after day. Sometimes it is two weeks or longer. It is great for keeping up with new when traveling, but only 1/3 of the main page is useful.Version: 5.13.626
✓ Breaking newsI like this site for local news, but don’t think everything is breaking news...such as high school football beginning and ending and voting for game of the week. Fans of HS football know when those events are happening. Also, when I get a news alert for important breaking news and I click on it for more information, the story isn’t even on the app yet..Version: 5.13.223
✓ Is okI grew up on WTAE news and I am used to the newscasters. Recently they tell half truths unless it benefits an agenda. I have to wait and wait for the news to come back on after the commercials and sometimes it skips video, sometimes it repeats a short audio/video, nothing like real tv but it’s my local news. I wish all reporters/announcers did real journalism and report the truth but sadly it isn’t true these days.Version: 5.13.868
✓ Deleted This AppI love getting news alerts on my lock screen, but unfortunately with this app, if you don’t open the app to read the news story, they quit sending the alerts. It would not be so bad if there was actually a story to read when you take the time to put in a password and open the app, but the “story” is essentially the same as the alert with no additional information. What’s the point? Rather than continue to be aggravated by not receiving alerts, I just deleted the app. If this changes, I will get it again. In the meantime, I continue to get alerts from the WPXI app with no penalty..Version: 5.12.65
✓ UNFINISHED SENTENCES ??This news app is almost always the first to provide alerts for national and international news — but their stories are CONSTANTLY plagued by the end of paragraphs simply being cut off mid-sentence! It’s as if they were tweeting the news story and ran out of characters! I quit even opening the app to read stories anymore, but use the alerts to look then up in more user-friendly apps. Too bad, because aside from that (and WAYYYY TOO MANY INVASIVE ADS), I’d rely on them for my news..Version: 5.13.801
✓ DisappointedI really like getting the news on my phone, especially when away from home. I hate it however, when you send an alert and there is no further info anywhere on the site. Also the weather is often a day old. Updated weather is really important especially when weather is inclement. Worst of all are the ads. 30 second ads were bad enough. Now They're often 60 seconds. Annoying! Would rather pay for the app..Version: 5.12.89
✓ Miss the WTAE Weather AppWhile both my wife and I have the WTAE app, we miss the weather app. Your weather app was the best weather app in town. It remembered options, allowed us to see future raider. It was very thorough. Now we have the WPXI weather app which doesn’t remember preferences like yours did and does not have future radar PLEASE BRING WEATHER APP BACK. Noticed we are not the only ones missing it..Version: 5.13.270
✓ Coverage unfairI like your reporters, especially the morning ladies. I realize they report whatever they are told to say. I wish we could find at least one local station that is not Liberal biased. There is never any positive news for the conservatives and no mention of Trump’s achievements. He has been nominated for three Nobel Peace prizes and never even a five second mention of that or any of his other accomplishments..Version: 5.15.55
✓ Dislike the new format particularly the weather appI rely heavily on your interactive radar being up to date. With the old app when golfing, fishing or watching approaching storms I could count on your interactive being with a few minutes of what was happening. Now I have noticed the it lags by as much as 15 to 30 minuets. Many Times the storm has passed before it show up in my area on your map. It also take a considerable amount of time to upload and just sits and spins where before it was much faster. I don’t feel that I can rely on it any more and have to to other sources. Also when you look at you extended forecast and your live forecast the temperatures do not match up and you can’t rely on the..Version: 5.13.55
✓ Needs tweakingIt’s easier to use compared to the other Pittsburgh news sites. Bad points are that it doesn’t show as much Fayette County news as the other stations and it’s not always as current as Channel 11’s site. One irritant is that it so often wants to know my location before showing me a story. I’m not hiding anything but it doesn’t need to know that either.Version: 5.13.868
✓ DisappointingI didn't like the old format and had hopes that the new one would be better. It is not. For one thing, I can't flip it on the iPad and I don't like that inconvenience. The stories are repetitive and often a day or two old. I don't understand why things that are 3 or more days old still are at the top of the list. I don't find it easy to use and find things I want to read. Not a fan of the update notifications, but I can turn that off. Disappointing since WTAE is my go to place for local news. Old news stays on there for weeks, sometimes months. Like the story of James Conner being drafted by the Steeler. That “news” was on there even after the regular season started. Sad, for me, that I don’t use this app much anymore..Version: 5.12.45
✓ Not able to read articlesI am no longer able to view articles on my ipad. I can see the first sentence of each section but then it runs off the right side of the page and there is no slide to see the right side of the page.Version: 5.15.981
✓ Need simple fixesYou should be able to minimize the screen and make it full-size without having to restart the app. The app should allow you to watch the previous broadcast if there isn’t a current live broadcast. Live videos should have sound I shouldn’t have to sit here and wonder if something is broken..Version: 5.15.610
✓ Good news, bad appI hate that you try to scroll and it scrolls on super drive on it’s own. I wish the news stories were updated more often. There’s been times I go check other news apps while I’m waiting for WTAE to update their stories. I also hate that if you close out of the app even for a second, when you open the app back up, it refreshes the whole app back to the beginning and you have to scroll back through to find where you left off..Version: 5.13.868
✓ I want NEWS not ADS!!!This app was my go to app for local news. It works most of the time and is usually up to date, but with one of their recent updates, they lost at least one user, if not more. I know ads support your revenue stream, and your trying to get as many people to view them as possible, but come on, do you really need your embedded ads to launch mid-story, without interaction? I love reading the news on my packed bus into work, and while I’m reading a tragic story about what’s happening in the world today, I don’t need a random ad, that I didn’t interact with trying to sell lipstick to everyone else on the bus. I’m fine with the accidental AD video launching when I click on it, but don’t force ADs on me that I don’t want to know more about, when I’m trying to see if it’s going to rain on me at the bus stop. I hope they fix the app, and make it so I can get News again, but in its present form, with the bombardment of ADs, this is definitely a free app that’s a waste of space on your phone..Version: 5.13.47
✓ Not always convenientThis is my preferred station to watch/follow for news. However it drives me crazy when I get a new notification (which I can’t read fast enough or only has partial info) but when I go to the app the story is nowhere to be found. If it’s important enough to send a notification shouldn’t it be one of the “featured stories”? I don’t want to have to go digging around to figure out where the story is on the site..Version: 5.13.252
✓ WeatherI probably use the weather portion of this app more than any other part of it. The hourly forecast is great except for hours that have more than one line of text at the top. On those, the chance of precipitation is cut off so that it cannot be read. Not very helpful. When reading a longer news story, I have been scrolling down and all of the sudden I’m back to the top. Usually I just give up at that point..Version: 5.13.151
✓ Update ruined appThe app worked fine until the update 3 weeks ago. Rather than fix bugs, now my app won’t scroll past a certain point, nor does it fully support portrait mode anymore. Just half the page shows up, with dark space around it. Horrible app now. Disgusted because this is the way I get my news..Version: 5.15.1082
✓ Same Old StoriesNo longer living in the greater Pittsburgh area, I still like to keep up with what’s going on there. I see the same old tired stories for days, sometimes weeks on end. I also don’t like suffering thru an ad every time I open a story and notice that often the video attached to the story is either old news or has nothing to do with the story itself. Also, your idea of breaking news is clearly different than mine. My husband has already deleted this app from his phone..Version: 5.13.853
✓ Needs workI watch the morning news every morning while getting ready for work. Almost every morning when there is a break the news doesn’t come back on, it just sit idle with the logo and never returns to the news. The only way to get the news back is go out vine back in and start over. That’s usually when I go to a different station. Let’s make it more professional and less like story time. So many times things are partially repeated every time it switches to a new subject. So aggravating. Very hard to understand with today’s technology that wtae doesn’t find a solution. I have noticed CBS and ABC does not have that issue..Version: 5.15.244
✓ Needs some workThis app is my favorite and the easiest for checking both the weather radar and my local forecast. But there are a several problems IMO. I don’t like that it won’t rotate when reading but especially when trying to watch a video. It drives me crazy when, after reading a couple of news stories it takes me back to the beginning instead of returning me to where I was, leaving me to have to continually scroll back down to continue with the next story. Because of this I generally read my news from another local news app then come to this one for the radar and to see if there is news not covered on the other app. Some stories stay on this app for weeks, maybe longer, and I’ve even seen one that was posted for weeks and FINALLY taken off reappear a few months later! NEWSFLASH! Those stories are no longer news! That also makes me crazy. At times the live news doesn’t work and I can’t go back and watch a broadcast I missed in between live news times. So I don’t usually bother trying..Version: 5.13.1
✓ App works pretty good but most news is notThe news and the stories they choose to cover or not cover is the real issue here. They chose to talk about things Trump said about Kampala Harris but not what Kampala Has said about Joe Biden as early as the primaries. Seems that would be way more relevant and newsworthy but doesn’t support the Trump is bad narrative so we won’t see any news or hardball questions about it to Kamala. Lol! This is not news but brain washing propaganda. Very good brain washing propaganda but still fake and biased and pointed and misleading purposefully..Version: 5.13.996
✓ Can’t Turn Off News AudioI used to read all the news via your app but now you can’t check out the news without a news clip playing. So much for attempting to silently check the news. I’m going to check out other Pittsburgh news sources and see if they assault you with audio. I tried to search your app to see if I can adjust it to not play news clips to no avail..Version: 5.15.776
✓ Bug needs fixed, missing portions of articlesThe app in general is good, however ads in the middle of every article obscure chunks of text and important segments of every article are missing and cannot be seen, even if the ad can be closed (mostly can’t.) I did email WTAE concerning this but no response and no fix...would rate higher if I could actually read all of the articles..Version: 5.13.650
✓ Too many ads!!If there was a version that could be purchased it would be so much better. There are way too many ads. I would be willing to pay for it because it has good content and is up to date with the news and weather. I understand the need for the ads, but every time I try to watch the clip for a story and I have to watch a 30 second ad is a little excessive..Version: 5.12.89
✓ Stories not updated, too many adsEspecially over a weekend the stories never change. Breaking news does not seem to appear on the app. Most “breaking news” is absurd and not truly anything that merits an alert. Plus I never watch the videos because I can’t stand the ads I have endure to get to them..Version: 5.13.535
✓ Too busyThe site is too busy. I don’t like that at the end of an item, if you continue to scroll, there are other items not at all connected to what you just read. There don’t seem to be too many local stories, either. I wish it were easier to navigate and less busy. The ads are very distracting..Version: 5.13.270
✓ Biased reporting.Terrible coverage of Live Presidential News Conferences. Cut short so they can determine what people should hear. They pick and choose for you. IfI wanted your opinion or ideas I would make sure to tune to them. As is I cut your news off because of totally. Biased representation by you of what was said. News is suppose to be real and accurate and unbiased, guess those days are long gone..Version: 5.13.996
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