Idaho News from KTVB App Reviews

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News. I count on KTVB for news, I also like their “verify” news too! In these times of “news media” being fake or false, they’ve done a good job of just doing their job, when they go low, we go high.

“UPDATING”/CHANGING APP TOO MUCH. I actually removed the app about a year ago, because of the constant changes. I just recently reinstalled it again ➖Everyone deserves a 2nd chance. If KTVB had been a better information source for the latest news, I could have overlooked the constant changes to the app. I was hoping that when I reinstalled the app, the latest news issue had gotten better. It has not. I cannot rely on KTVB to get important info that I’ve heard about “through the grapevine”. BTW, I do not have cable or satellite service. So I have to get information online. I think if KTVB put as much time into updating the latest news, instead of updating the app, this app would be the greatest.

Accurate and true to time.. Channel 7 alerts and news updates keep me informed rather than having to watch a 10 o’clock news in the evening. I stay informed with all current events with all their significant highlights without having to get to saturated into redundant news

Serious Issues with loading. This app is great for news around the Panhandle State of Idaho. I put can customize the stories you’re most interested in. However, the app has had serious issues lately loading. It will work for a day and then the next it won’t load anything. It just spins and never loads, even at the highest internet speeds. Consider fixing these bugs soon.

Too many adds. I enjoy reading the news stories and staying up to date every day. What I dont like are all the ads and links that pop up. Many of them are inappropriate. It’s frustrating having images constantly pop up that are links to gossip or fake news, while I’m trying to read real news.

Getting Better. The KTVB app continues to improve! Would give it Five Stars, however it is still difficult to navigate to specific items. Would be nice to have a drop-down with alphabetical listing off all contents in one place linked directly to that event.

Biased news coverage. I have been reading the articles on KTVB for a number of years now. While there has always some left-leaning bias, it has become very obvious that they strongly support Democrats and the like. I turn to the news for objective information but the stories on KTVB have become increasingly subjective. I’ll be deleting the app and looking for a news cast that can give a more objective approach to sharing the news.

Review of KTVB Online News Feed. I typically do not watch the news on TV as I prefer the online format. For the most part it works. However, many times the online source is repetitive, often days at a time. This may of course occur due to this online format. I especially enjoy the verify portion often discovering answers to issues I have crossed. Even though the online feed falls a little short in my opinion, it is typically the one I gravitate to. I enjoy the reporting and anchor staff at KTVB. They have been my number one source over the last 37 years.

Very disappointed. The old app was a bit glitchy and crashy for me and when this one came out I was excited for no more crashes or slow loading. But man am I disappointed in the app. This morning I opened it only to find that it won’t load. I can’t see the weather, articles won’t load for me, and the layout of everything is just frustrating! So KTVB do us all a favor and hire a local and professional app developer to fix this and give the community a quality WORKING app instead of hiring some tech giant that just wants your money.

To much marketing/click bait all over the place. I really value the news and local stories on the Website and and App for my phone. That said, I really wish the news content was separated from the ads and all the click bait material. Even if you were able to able relegate it a specific area on the page. The way it is now, it is very disruptive to reading the news and local stories. Thanks for considering my comments

Great content, mediocre app.. App used to be better. The ads take over my screen more and more. The app likes to freeze if you click on a banner notification and try to jump from the linked article back to home. If I click out for one second, then come back it resets to top. I will keep using it anyway, but it functions worse than any other app I have or use.

Scott Slant. Scott is one of the gems of the Gem State. He has accurate insights and the historical perspectives that no one else in the state possesses. Jay Tust may become a Tom Scott someday, but Scott is the guy. He is pro-Boise, and pro-Treasure Valley, but with realistic takes and expectations. I aways learn something from reading his column.

I though the app couldn’t get worse but here we are. When KTVB switched the app over to their current news obfuscating, click-farming format, it was bad enough. Now you can’t read an article without flashing news ads bracketing the top and bottom of every paragraph of every article—it’s become unreadable. I use this mildly infuriating app 20% of the time I that used to spend on it. It’s a shame that a formally reputable valley news station has quickly turned into a bad joke without a punchline.

Love KTVB!!. I have enjoyed this news station since moving here in 2008! I have Dish so I miss your smiling faces every morning .. early evening and late night !!! I got the RCA free channel but that is hit and miss more misses though. I try to see it on my phone but even that is a challenge with family .ya all are awesomeness!!! KaTy

Terrible. This app is horrible. Worse than the last. Crashes constantly. Can’t even finish a single article before it crashes. Happens when you scroll. Probably just going to have to rely on channel 6 app for my news.

CBS 2 is Better. I have been using this app for years and have always been frustrated with it (it was good a few years back). The same old stories stay on the newsfeed for weeks, searching is impossible, and where is the traffic?! Layout is overall awful. Love KTVB but the app is just not good. Just downloaded the cbs 2 app and it seems to be way more user friendly.

Channel 2 app is better. I look at your news app last because it doesn’t have the most updated or all the news that channel 2 has. Take a lesson from them. Also, sports seems to dominate your news when some of us would prefer to know more about regional or national news.

KTVB & the 208. There was a time that at 5:00 pm I would change the channel because this half hour contained no local news. Then about a year ago along came the 208 with a host who was made for this program. Brian deserves a raise and an award for bringing me back. We love this program! Dennis & Debbie Cummings

Full length news. Would really like a news app that I could watch the news from beginning to end instead of just highlights with ads.

Faster news stories. Please keep this app updated quickly as we check in on it frequently throughout the day. Weekends as well. There is new news on the weekend and it’s disappointing to open the app to see Wednesday, Thursday and Friday news still there on Sunday with no updates on what’s happening. Thanks!

Only use it for notifications. Notifications from this app are good. Don’t bother opening it though, because it’s an ad-infested hot mess. Scroll bars go up and down in the middle of the articles...that simple issue on its own took over a year to fix. Want to search for an article, topic, or anything at all? Nope. Not here. It’s just a janky format overall. If I was this news channel, I would breach my contract with this dev and search for something better or make my own because this is not a good look for KTVB. Plus, that would allow me to focus on other things, such as the constant misspellings and grammatical errors in the articles. Anyone ever heard of spellcheck or Grammarly?? Good thing that Edward R. Murrow award doesn’t rely on decent grammar.

Lifesaver. Thank you for providing unparalleled service to help us stay informed with facts. I am a Social Worker and a therapist in our community and am working from home trying to connect with my clients and give them the facts as they come in that will help them to not panic. Social Workers in general do not get included with first responders or healthcare workers so it can feel like a thankless job at times, however my biggest concern is the safety and well-being of those that are vulnerable as well as those that are struggling to make sense of the world we are now living in. I have not seen anything on Social Workers and March is Social Work Month celebrating 65 years of helping people. It would be nice to be recognized as a profession that is also on the front lines. Thank you for all your doing to give us honest information that is up to date.

Broken Notifications. This app is great for getting local news and weather, but insane to obnoxious with notifications. It completely ignores your topic settings and continues to deliver notifications on stories I couldn’t care less about. All I want are weather alerts and the occasional local story. Instead, I get the news notification equivalent of spam. For now, I have disabled notifications entirely for this app until this issue is fixed.

Not user friendly. I have always enjoyed KTVB as a news station. They’re not only good as a local station, but they can sometimes give national stations a run for their money! That being said, the app is horrible. They need to fire the developer, scrap it, and start over. It’s not user friendly in the least, and it’s just plain frustrating to navigate. I just want to click on a category and see news reports. I don’t want to have to select favorites and navigate my way through them in order to find a story.

Great app for a great news station & source!!. I will not watch any other local news station for Idaho news…and I prefer KTVB over national news’s outlets in some cases too!! The app is better than national news apps too! Easy to navigate and notifications are reliable. I have a friend in CA watching the UogI murder story closely and I send her the link to a story update saying “ KTVB is pretty much the primary news source in Idaho...good app to follow and sign up for notifications too...that's how I got this one... of course there are other sources...but KTVB tends to be the main news source for Idaho...if you were interested 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️”

Typical local “news”. I’m not a fan of the new app layout, I just want all the headlines for the day laid out in a row like the old app. Having to pick a topic to find the stories is a bit annoying. Also a little less BSU and a little more actual area news from the station in general would be welcome. We don’t all live in Boise and we don’t all care in any way what the college teams are doing (it’s hard for me to stress these two points without swearing).

App keeps getting stuck when trying to load stories.. I have been using this app for years, however in the past 3 weeks to a month I have had to delete app on my phone 3 times due to it getting stuck (like buffering)on loading stories. I waited forever for it to download the story, closed back out of it and reopened it and it was still stuck. It is not my phone, because it doesn’t do it on any other app.

Violates Apple do not track policy. You are intentionally violating Apples new do not track policy. You present a screen that appears to offer the ability turn tracking off however it is on by default and CAN NOT be selected to not track. Confirmed on 3 different iPhones so not a glitch! Also, you are told you can come back but there is no way in any settings in the app to change it. Luckily, the user should be able to adjust this globally on each phone. The final straw is your “do not track” notification is custom. Apple doesn’t allow that. You must use their system designed one. This is done so app developers can’t do exactly what you have done. All of this on top of the glitches with each update. The late/old stories, all this appears as though KTVB doesn’t care about local journalism. I think the truth is the people at the station care but the corporate entity doesn’t.

My go to app for news of the valley.. I check KTVB app many times a day. I look at the news, weather and follow the covid-19 information several times a day. I post searches for children and adults on Facebook.

App no longer operational. I have used this app for years with no problems. Recently every time I open the app I get a screen that says the next screen will ask my permission to personalize ads. That would be fine but the next screen never appears. I can’t access the news or give my permission for personalized ads. The app has become useless. I uninstalled it and downloaded it again but get the same results.

Hard to navigate. This app is useless too me. So hard to use, you scroll down to read an article and an ad pops up and moves what you want to read down or up. Very hard to find anything!!!! I love KTVB news, but will not be using this app.

National news biased and inflames Discord. I quit watching Lester Holt after 19 days of him showing Floyd getting killed. They were burning our inner cities. After three days you switch to positive ways you can deal with the problem. Outlying that particular chokehold, increase training for the police officers. Punishing the particular police officer involved. Voting for the people that stand for what you do. Not 19 days of getting people flamen hot mad

Wasted my time writing review and no way to send. I wish the people that put the articles in here would proof read it before submitting. Only to check for proper spelling and word placement. Like the articles , sometimes confusing. Thankyou

Hasn't worked properly since overhaul. App crashes often when trying to read a story. Constant loading of ads means the story text (when the app doesn't crash) shifts down the page repeatedly, so when I'm trying to scroll down, sometimes the place where I've placed my thumb suddenly becomes the middle of an ad and now I'm opening a new window because I've inadvertently clicked into an ad window. The organization of the menus is frustrating and "back" doesn't take me back into the list I was in, but back to the top of home every time. Not terribly user friendly or efficient and clearly pretty buggy.

KTVB RATING. KTVB is my favorite station. I cannot watch any of the other local stations. I loved Dee Sarton, but I have learned to love Kim Fields just as much. I love Mark Johnson, he’s a hoot and so good at what he does. Rick Lance is great, Jim Doothie also. Brian Holmes is another great newscaster, he can do the news, jump from that desk and then into the weather forecast. He is also great and can certainly multi task. Then there is my sweetheart Bri Eggers, she just amazes me. A little secret I can understand her when she is speaking. The rest of the staff is also worthy of praise. The morning staff is also awesome, I just don’t get up early enough to watch them. I’m Retired!! Keep up the great work!!

Love Chanel 7. I love channel 7 news because everything seems so real to me there’s no beating around the bush. The reporters are very sincere and caring. I feel like I get a good truthful news that’s to the point without all the garbage added. Thank you channel 7 for all of your hard work!!

Great news updates. We watch Channel 7, but I also enjoy on the go to get updates on things going on around the community. Thank you.

Fix the weather Dept. I enjoy the local coverage provided by KTVB with the notable exception of “Idaho’s Meteorologist” Rick Lance. If the management of the station would take the time to listen to any one of Lance’s presentations and compare it to any of the other weather people, there would be an immediate change. Every one knows temperatures drop at night and no one cares what the temp will be to the nearest tenth of a degree at 4:00 AM. I exaggerate but the verbal delivery of untold weather minutia with an expression reserved for a mass shooting, is not what people want to hear. We all want an idea of the general conditions coming and the temp range within around five degrees. All the minutia is a total waste of time Come on, KTVB - it is time to move on. Duthey is very good and Eggers is wonderfully refreshing and both deliver what we want to hear - not a bunch of useless BS.

Difficult to navigate. I want the old app back!! No traffic report, the radar is useless, it’s really difficult to navigate the news. The “old” news is on the app for days, and, any new alerts take a several hours before they appear on the new app. Please revise the app so that it is user friendly.

From North Idaho and I watch everyday. I am from Coeur d’Alene and watch what is happening in our Capital and beyond everyday online. With all the big updates happening I check in with 7 several times a day. They give alerts on their App every-time there is breaking news.

Difficult to use. The new app has limited stories on the first page, scroll past those and click on anything and try to go back it brings you all the way to the beginning. Scrolling through is a time waster and frustrating. It’s also difficult to find the different categories of stories. Using the app is cumbersome which then just leads me to going elsewhere to read news. Not to mention there is more advertising than actual news.

News is news. I have had the KTVB app for many years. I stopped watching it when Dee Sarton retired. Dee’s professionalism couldn’t go unnoticed. When news about Covid-19, and other political news wouldn’t tell the truth, I had enough. When people’s opinions about President Trump became more important than telling the whole truth, I quit watching it on my tv. I’ll check out the app for any local news but I don’t watch it much.

2 things would make it better. 1; Way too many ads. Hard to actually read any story, because the ad will change the position of the story, and you’ll have to scroll to find it. Every time. 2; Despite our local region being far more conservative than not, I’m seeing way too many liberal slant stories that have no place here. That’s the networks fault. Whomever works on the app needs to fix the format.

Love the KTVB App. The app makes it so easy to see important information and it makes it easy to see where storms are and where they’re heading. I use it on a daily basis. Getting the notifications for breaking stories about what’s going on in the state, keeps me informed while I’m out and about. I love this app!!

It’s a swing and a miss.. Back to the drawing board, people. I only downloaded it because you disabled your previous app. By the way, not cool. I’m very disappointed in the replacement that you have put out. It freezes constantly and is completely unusable. I don’t have time to deal with that so I will be looking for an app from one of your competitors that will allow me to actually read LOCAL news articles. In the meantime, I really do hope you get this fix and functioning properly.

App keeps freezing since the new 14.2 iOS.. I believe there are other issues that need re-worked such as how articles scroll into endless ads at the bottom of articles. How about adding functionality, such as live traffic updates.

KTVB is the 1st Place I Go For Local News. The only place I go for local news. I do get frustrated when all the news stations fail to report on important issues like the recent raid at Hometown Motors in Weiser. You should be protecting the consumer not the advertiser. Other than that you rock.

THANK YOU!!!!. Thank you for keeping us in formed every day on the virus, our community and it’s people, all while being said in TRUTH!! Our Beautiful state is BLESSED to have such a Great News Station!! Thank you again for trying to keep us all safe and completely informed!! I wish all the employees of KTVB Health, Love and My God Bless you all!! CW

KTVB Good except for relentless ads. I’m enjoying streaming KTVB news in the morning, but the same ads play every time and it has become like torture. I have to turn the volume off on my phone when they come on. The one about Mom Squad is the most offensive. Then the one with the music playing “Never gonna let ya go” Please, please, please change the commercials! There are also way too many! But at least just get some new ads. Otherwise, I like the newscasters and the weatherman. It’s a good program. Thank you for having this survey.

Review of KTVB. I really like the online chance to see KTVB because Dish has canceled the chance to see it on TV. After 50 plus years of watching KTVB, Dish and the owners of the station have chosen money over their customers.

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Best News App!. Such a great app to get all my local news content. Love seeing weather updates just for me, and the new topics section helps me find stories that are important to my family. Great work KTVB!

Deleting your app. I have been increasingly disappointed in your coverage an am finally deleting both KTVB and NBC from all of my devices and televisions.

Very Nice App. They are always up to date with the latest news in the South/West of Idaho. Thank you for all the updates and braking news. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Local News. For the most part, it works pretty well. Not many bugs or glitches. They put out updates as well for anything that’s been brought to their attention.

Thank you. Thank you for keeping me informed since this pandemic. It is always nice to see those friendly faces everyday!!!

I love the KTVB App. I get notifications of breaking news on my iPad and can quickly catch up on my own time schedule.

martb8. Easy to use for news updates and the weather.

Enjoy KTVB. I check KTVB for all the latest news and information I need daily. Everyone should follow my example.

News. I have been watching channel 7 news for 20 years. Got to watch the old and new news casters

Are You Still Updating. I just read a 3 year old review and am wondering why it sounds like it was written yesterday? Let’s gat it right, the first time, please. Enough time has passed that the app should be as smooth as silk by now. Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter. Chevy4me

App freezes every time. Not a fan of the new app. It is constantly freezing up every time I open the app. It’ll work for a few seconds the. After it just stops and I have to restart the app. Super annoying not being able to read the articles or even check out all the feature of the new app.

Great News. Love the positive reporting and local stories. The app keeps us apprised of local events, crime (unfortunately but a reality of life), and weather. Our fav news channel!

What about traffic???. In the last app we had traffic maps available. With the new one it seems it has been removed... When you use it everyday to help avoid longer drive times having it missing it not a good answer? Are there plans to bring it back?

Installed then Uninstalled a few minutes later. Opened one new story. Could not stop the video or scroll to read the rest of the text. Sound would not play even though I was not in silent mode and with volume at the highest setting. Couldn’t backup to the main page, so had to just close the app. Definitely needs further testing. Uninstalled. 😔

Terrible app: don't install, it's not ready!. App hangs/freezes repeatedly. Guess release to production quality checks were overlooked as this is the worst I've seen.

Nice content, formatting needs to be improved. Really like this app, but I do think the formatting is cumbersome compared to the old version. I would like the developers to optimize the layout.

Hate this app. This app freezes more than any other app I have used. Half of the news notifications are not information that needs to interrupt your day—things like sport event updates. Advertisements take up just as much space as the articles, and to watch videos you have to watch an ad first. Deleting this app and looking for a useful local news app.

Channel 7. I just wish you could get channel 7 back on dish! I miss all my shows and the news. O boy do I miss the news. The others are SO bad!

KTVB News. I only watch KTVB news, your professionalisms is superior to other local stations & I like the non-bias informative nature of your programming. As of late, I am particularly enjoying #The208, Brian’s humor brings a fresh approach to the otherwise redundant news of the day👍🏼

Disgusting ads, bad spelling. I was already considering deleting this app because of the many spelling and grammar errors. A third grader could do a better job of proof reading. I was able to overlook those errors, but I just couldn’t take looking at another disgusting earwax removal ad! As you scroll down you see nasty earwax being pulled from someone’s ear over and over.

New App. The new app constantly freezes. Not a fan of the weather part. Overall it’s just not user friendly. Will replace it with one of your competitors apps. Goodbye 7.

KTVB. I love the app, but absolutely HATE their news reporting. I’m so sick of reporters inserting THEIR opinions just tell me the news please! So the app is great!! Please please please get rid of Brian Holmes!!! His sanctimonious behavior “on the 208” is more then I can handle!

News Team. You are the best channel news staff ever I will only watch Channel 7 you are on top of everything you do

The Channel 7 news people are all awesome .. Always feel like they are my friends, makes my day !

Excellent for Puget Sound Users!. I’m in Seattle and have been following the Quad•Murder case from November, 2022. This App works EXCELLENT with NO HOOKS! I’ve stayed on top of all public info thru this News App! Their coverage has been TOP•NOTCH! Thank You for doing such a GREAT JOB!!!

I love the app, but the ads drive me nuts!!!. I would rather read the story or pay a small fee to pay for the app then to have to listen to or watch an ad first before listening/watching the news story coverage!

Always look forward to 5am news.. Great! Been watching for 12 years since moving back to Idaho in 2011.

Fresh and customizable. Love the new look and function of this app. It’s customizable so I get the news categories I’m interested in right away.

Love KTVB News!. The KTVB mobile app is where we turn when we want up to the minute reporting! Best news in the Treasure Valley!

Best news in the Treasure Valley. Great stories and up to the minute information on the issues that are happening now.

News and weather on demand. I love this app best news and weather at my fingertips

Quick way to catch up on local news and weather. I’m liking it!

Updates. Need more local news world news updates.

The go-to news source for southern Idaho. You can always rely on KTVB to bring you the most up to date news across southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Thank you foe everything you do.

KTVB. My “go to station “ Several times a day! I love that they have happy news also.

I don’t leave reviews normally. I know there is more news in Idaho than this app gives. 5 news stories a day with 10 more repetitive stories. And I know this is silly, but the spiders ad that I have to look at over and over while I’m having my breakfast, despite feedback to google was the straw that broke the camels back to delete entirely and go to the statesman instead.

Crime. Why is crime not a major section listed in date order? I have to select search to see a menu item for it. I don’t really care about the feel good and political lies as they just waste time. Show me real news.

App Broken. Load the latest version 12/28 and now it blows up when I try to open it.

I liked the previous version better. When I read an article, I can’t swipe to the next article. When I hit the back button, it goes to the top of the screen. Frustrating.

Disappointing. App isn’t bad but the ads are terrible! Every article has multiple ads and if you want to watch a video of any kind you have to watch an ad. Why would I want to watch an ad about a car dealership ( or something like that ) before I watch live breaking news?!?! Get rid of so many ads.

Good Content - Annoying Ads. Mostly good content from this site, but 1 star off for the stupid ads that pop up all over the app.

Not a good upgrade. I used to use this app all the time for local news and weather. Everything freezes, videos do not open or if they do, it continually has to buffer. The weather part is the worst. Twitter feeds should not be at the top of your selection, it is inappropriately placed in the tool. Looking for another app for my Boise needs

Freezes constantly. Almost unusable because it freezes every time I use it. I generally have to close and reopen 2-3 times every story I try to read. Also not a fan of having to scroll to get to traffic or other things further down. Bring back the drop down menu so I can go exactly where I want to go from the beginning.

Too much advertising. Too much advertising. Also not too easy to find what you are looking for. Search does not seem to work that well.

Bad app. The old app was so much better. You could actually read the news on it. This one looks like they spent so much time on the (really slow) opening that can tell you what time of day it is that they forgot to pay attention to developing something where you can find the news. I’ve downloaded another local news app and am deleting this one.

Breaking News. Great stories, keep them coming

Can’t share! Micro font!. Why can’t I share the article I’m reading? Why is the font so small compared to everything else on my iPhone?! Horrible, hard to navigate, unusable mess!

This app stinks!!. I’ve had it downloaded from day 2. When I open it all I get is advertising. And being 78 years old it’s not user friendly for my Age group. 😡

KTVB. Always accurate and up to date news

Best News App. I rely on this app for all my news after trying several. I love this app and news channel.