WBTV News App Reviews

This app will NOT download. I like WBTV , this app was working , but I have tired repeatedly to download it again to my iPad & it will not download, yet all the other ones do fine. I have been trying for months, WHY CAN’T YOU FIX THIS THING ?!

Unable to download. Says my I phone is too old to download 😮

Selected news coverage. I find it strange that WBTV does not cover all news equally. Just strange how they cover former President Trump’s legal woes and not cover DA Willis’s legal issues. First, I thought, well it must be that it is not in NC and then I realized, that WBTV covers a lot of news that does not occur in NC. Please quit putting politics as an agenda in your news. Report the news accurately regardless of the politics involved.

TOO MANY ADS!. The app itself is great, but the amount and type of ads are infuriating. I would gladly pay a reasonable YEARLY or slightly higher one-time fee to remove all ads. I would also love a dark mode when reading articles.

Fake news. I will be not watch your news no more if you want to lie I’m done you have put my life as well as other people’s life at risk I’m done with all the news stop lying for bill gates and his followers get you a chip not me

I do NOT watch the commercials!. When I go to see a news bulletin from WBTV but am forced to watch a commercial, WBTV immediately looses me. I click out of there and go look for the story somewhere else. Why would I want to wait on a commercial for an important news bulletin? You loose me!

I’ll give it five stars if you can update the imaging voice of the station.. This may be a minor point for most viewers, but I did work as a production director at a radio station in southeastern Kentucky. Even they knew that the first letter of any station call sign east of the Mississippi river is pronounced “double you” not “dubby you”. As I understand it, the voice of the Atlanta Braves on Gray Media stations, Jim Cutler, has no existing contract in the Charlotte market. If you would make him, or a reasonable facsimile of him, the voice of WBTV going forward, your app will get five stars, and your news casts will be far more enjoyable to those of us who still believe in the magic of broadcast imaging.

WBTV/Trump. I really love you guys❤️ And I love the App it's right on time. Thank you for all you do for us. I have to say CNN sent this notification at 2:14 am. The message alert for it woke me up? I thought to myself, do you guys live with the President?LOL😂! But you guys are on time!! Don't worry I am not complaining! Cause you guys are the best? I have been watching you since I was a little girl? I am 54 now.

Hate the new update!. I’ve been using the new app for several weeks now and I still find it difficult and counterintuitive to use. The only reason most people ope the WBTV app is for news and you have to click to view top stories. Then you get there and the headlines aren’t complete because they are too long. I really tried to give it a shot but this is a downgrade, not an upgrade!

News - Weather - Traffic - Daily Must-Have. I find myself accessing WBTV more than any social media account. With breaking news, all the wacky weather we’re constantly experiencing, and daily traffic - It’s comforting to know; I’m provided the MOST up-to date information and alerts! Thank - You, WBTV!

Ok, but... It works fine for stuff that is already there. It seems very unstable. Whenever I try to add a location for the weather it crashes. It has also crashed when I've tried to make other adjustments in the settings. Also I have an ever increasing number of notifications for which I am unable to view. If I open the notifications tab, it's always empty. When I tell it to clear notifications, the number pops back up after a few minutes.

Chatty Hattie. Thank you Channel 3 for this interview. It’s always uplifting and heart felt to see and hear the Legendary Chatty Hattie. Yes I love and respect her dearly. I graduated from her private College in 1999, and I could never be more appreciative for the education under her tutelage. Thank you Channel 3 for keeping Ms Hattie in the spot light. She truly is news worthy. Sincerely, Libbie Gates

Hurt viewer Disappointed. I am appalled that you would entertain the idea or survey of President Biden impeachment. You have Trump who led an insurrection and started this withdrawal. He refused for a year to honor visas Biden cares about the country. Trump was not impeached for a that he did. I will stop watching your channel because you have crossed the line. I am not a Democrat but I am an American. How about Trumps courting white super mist views. You should be ashamed to even conduct such a survey. Shame on you. I thought you were nonpartisan. Boy was I wrong!

To many pop ups. I get I have to see an add before I read an article but pop ups? And every time I navigate to another section? No thank you. Delete

Ron Rivera’s firing. I am appalled Panthers owner fired Head Coach Ron Rivera with four games left in the 2019 season. Ron has meant a lot to Charlotte for his support, community involvement, work for charitable drives, as well as many other positive events involving children and teens to encourage their actions and choices in the future. In my opinion, no one is able to aid in a player’s ability at any given time even the player himself due to various uncontrollable effects.

No follow-ups. Not sure if this correct place to express my views but only way I found so far. News articles are relatively good but I never see any follow-ups on lingering news items even though it’s stated there will be a follow-up.

Bring back the original app please. I don’t see how this app is better at all. EVERY time I open it a full page ad appears for spectrum and ads are so abundant on the page I’m reading it’s extremely distracting. I am a huge fan of WBT radio, long time listener and have turned to you for local news but please....this app is not an improvement in any way, shape, manner, or form. I’ll be forced to delete it from my phone if this isn’t improved upon. Thanks.

Awful. Since the update I get 15 notifications an hour and none show up in the app. It’s slow and too klunky. Will delete and look at it again when you fix it.

Content good, bad app. Hate to say it bc this is a pretty good news group but the app is terrible. Lags or just won’t load. Have to close a bojangles fried chicken ad every time I’m able open or view one of the categories. Should look for different developer or structure. Older version vastly superior.

WBTV News App upgrade. DO NOT LIKE THE UPGRADE!! Wish I could go back to the old app! Too hard to navigate, too many interruptions with noisy “news breaks”, and can’t find half of what I’m searching for! As the old saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”! I wish the review would allow for no stars because that’s what I’d give!

Too many ads and fake news, rarely use it. More worried about creating more spam for myself than getting a valid news article to read

Terrible update. Unless an improved update happens very soon, I plan to delete this app. The previous versions were far superior compared to what we have now. Tell the teenager who developed this app to use Agile for your next release.

Was my favorite!. Was my favorite app for news and weather for years until the last update. Now it just closes every time I try to open it. 😢 please fix this and I will change it back to 5 stars.

Too many ads. I use to love the WBTV app until this new update. There are so many ads just scrolling that you can’t read the titles good anymore and the titles run together with just black words on a white page not even separating the titles efficiently. Please just give the news without so many ads!!

Too many pop up ads. I just updated the app and the ads are about 3 times what they were before.

Good news app. Good news app for Charlotte nc. Some surrounding towns. I’ve unchecked the news bout sports but still get news bout sports. Don’t give a hoot bout overpaid sports players.

WBTV Rocks. Thanks for being a wonderful news station!! You all seem to work well together and the coverage during the hurricane was fantastic by the weather folks!!

Clunky and outdated. The news app is clunky and outdated. It is 12/26 and the news is still showing the weekends news. I want to see current local news that is current and I don’t want to see the same articles over and over. If I wanted that, I’d buy a paper and leave it on the table.

Revised App means drop in Quality. Usually when an app is upgraded with a new release it is characterized by many improvements. This one was a Giant Step backwards. This app now has extreme redundancy, with a single story appearing up to four times in one listing. Reading down the page is over worn by numerous large advertisements and often multiple copies of the same ads. Besides repetition of ads and stories, the delisting under multiple sub headings makes this app much less likely to be used by me. Community sub headings are worthless when they do not provide new information that is not already included under the general topic of news. In summary this release was a major disappointment. I find myself relying on it and watching this channel much less frequently. Unless it gets much better quickly, I will delete this app entirely.

Not current news anymore. Your news updates are no longer being current. Most of what is on the site is multiple days old. Prior to this new app update it was a little better. When I first started using the app their news appeared to be more current. Starting to look for a new app for my news

Weather. You have the best radar nobody can beat it I look at it a lot I can depend on it it’s got the right back ground it’s very clear I’m a nut when it comes to your Radar so don’t change it it’s perfect I’m talking about my phone I’m 75 years old and you will always be by my side keep up the good work Sam Allen Salisbury n.c

New app. Updated phone this week and new format is more trouble than old lot harder to Veiw started using 36 more because I just really didn’t like new version having to put a nickname to submit is a little ridiculous plus al are taken

Inaccurate Reporting. No availability for written feedback! I want to complain that on QC AM they incorrectly reported that cicadas are once every 200 years. Not Right!! The once every 200 years is the two different cicadas emerge together!!! Inaccurate reporting is not acceptable. It needs to be corrected!! Elizabeth Gut

Update is not user friendly. The update from a couple of weeks ago is not very user friendly. There is also an issue with the notifications. There is almost always a high number of notifications that show up in the bubble, but when ai click the bell within the app, I’ve noticed some are older. Also, when clicking on the notification (which I assume should take the user to the article), the app crashes. This has happened since the first day of the upgrade. I occasionally try it to see if it’s fixed, but the problem persists. In case it matters, I’m using the app on an iPhone XS Max.

Videos Do Not Line Up With The Headline. You see a headline, Man leads police’s on 120mph chase. You open the article, you tap the video to be presented with First Alert Weather or Apple Air Tags on your luggage. Deceptive. Makes me not want to open the app. Read the headline and keep going then look it up on a different news source.

Media coverage. I think there should show equal coverage of police killing of any race . To much time pushing race as reason blacks killed by police and little on the other skin colors. The media stirs the pot. Report the true news. Killing is wrong except if your life is threaten . Stop making these criminals out to great people most have long criminal history white brown and black except in rare cases. How about more time spend when a police officer is kill one time is not enough. Thank you for letting me vent..

Too Many Ads. Clicked on an Alert and had to go through 3 ADs before getting to Article. Alert did not even take me to Article. Hate their new App. I have just turn off all alters, while deciding whether to delete App

Sorry for the 1 Star… 0star is not an option. Used to love my WBTV app. Closings section does not work. The new alert sound you have chosen is absolutely atrocious and I can’t change it. And the amount of click bait, fake news stories, etc, etc that you have in the app is horrible. I know we all have to pay bills (ads). But you cannot pay your bills without compromising your integrity as a new service? It must be time for some new leadership within your corporate structure, failures like this often happen at top management levels. There are many more flaws within the app, I will not further waste my time explaining them to you. Please download the app yourself, use, look around and let me know if you can still take yourselves seriously as a news source. (Similar flaws exist in other local news apps, and I will get to them shortly too) Feel free to contact me and discuss… as you can see, I do not candy coat….

Poor content poorly written. Someone who knows how to write should proofread these stories before posting them. WBTV is quick to post a story with few details and promise an update that rarely, if ever, appears. On to the next poorly written story. What a disappointment.

Great. It is a great app to get breaking news. Only issue I have is even on the IPhone 16s when you scroll up or down the screen looks laggy.

Fix the app. This would be a great app if the beginning screen would be smaller so I can actually hit the continue button. The button is half off the screen and below where I can tap it. Too bad.

Upgrade for Quick Access. Really wish I didn’t have to see a bojangles D each time I clicked on a story

Notification Spam. This app sends notification regardless of settings. Have it set to only breaking stories but still get notifications about random things like recently all the draft picks.

Doesn’t work most of the time. I’m on a newer iPhone and try to watch live news and it hardly ever works. It is even worse after this latest update.

WBTV App. This app is horrible. They have the news for my hometown is the reason I got it but it’s hard to get to the news because of all the pop up ads. Their latest update made the app more difficult and did not stop the pop up ads. Don’t waste your space and time on it.

WBTV ioys for real. When a luxury home blew up in Ballantyne BT honored the request to keep their distance for the sake of victims and emergency personnel. As a mom to both police and firefighters this blessed my heart.

Videos won’t stop playing. Videos automatically play with sound and there is no apparent way to stop them. Believe me, I have tried. I am to the point of going to remove the app if it can’t get fixed.

Website updating is slow. Am I the only person that has recently noticed that the web page stories are not updated quickly ? Compared to other TV sites, it seems that the articles are not updated with new stories or the old story is a day behind.

New format 👎🏼. I don’t like new format where the home page has a bunch of garbage then you have to click at the top to get the news. I come here for the news and not the extraneous stories and if I can’t get it in one click I’m not using it anymore . Deleting the app today until you can fix it .

Updated App is HORRIBLE!!. Constantly getting pop up adds. App and stories are slow to load. The old app was much better. If this continues, will delete app.

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Does not load. Keeps trying to load but never does

Garbage adds. This news app is trashed with garbage adds. I won’t use it anymore.

New Update???. App doesn’t work. Great job!!!

Eliminate all political bias. Bias diminishes the quality and reliability of information reported.

New Format. The new format is very hard to decipher.

FIX IT!. Since the “update” this app crashes at startup. Please fix it!

Old news. Not up to date on weekends. Can go to 9 or 36 and it’s more up to date

Useless articles. To many useless articles. Man waiting on his wife at Christmas Show. Such a stupid article! Rowan DA article. Another stupid article. Doesn’t this happen everyday in courtrooms?

Bad update. Just updated the app and now it will not open

Crashes. The app crashes now after this latest update

All ads. The new update is terrible. Too many ads.

One time good now almost useless. This app use to work. Now it crashes constantly. Does not display live coverage and does not sort local news anymore.

Review of WBTV!. I have always watched WBTV for the latest on news, weather, sports and more. I remember seeing the news all the way back to when I was a child. It seems like WBTV is going down hill though. I don’t believe in race baiting or “stirring the pot” so to speak. Here lately that’s all they do is stir the pot! All of their news stories are posted in a way that promotes hate and race baiting. They really focus on stories where a white person harms a black person. When it’s the other way around they do not cover the stories as much or at all! I think if you are going to cover a story, then cover all the stories! Why do they (WBTV) not cover stories when white people are harmed by black people? Also when there is a shooting involving the police, they make the bad guys seem like saints! I do understand that there is good and bad cops, just as there is good and bad people in every profession. However WBTV chooses to make the cops look bad in all stories involving police shootings. Which in return makes the communities in which the shooting take place upset and ready to riot, vandalize, and just act a fool! I think it’s just their new normal to make their stories sound like racism is on the rise, when in all actuality it’s been on the decline for years! It is definitely a sad time in our history, due to social media and cell phone cameras. Everyone gets the videos and photos of the incidents and edits them or only gets the parts that make the incidents look racial. Then WBTV picks it up and puts their twist on them to make it look way worse then it truly is! If one of the WBTV employees was robbed or involved in a crime, they would be screaming for the police to elope them. Also if it wasn’t a racial crime would they still make it out to be a racial crime? Also why is it when a white person harms a black person it is a hate crime, but when a black person harms a white person it’s just a normal crime? I mean technically, aren’t all crimes hate crimes??? They don’t commit the crimes because they love the other person! I wish we could just start calling a spade a spade! Let’s stop putting a racial spin on every story! As long as we are divided we will never be united! All of these elderly people that’s been attacked by BLM people and just black people in general never get mentioned by WBTV! Here a couple weeks ago there was a shooting at a party/gathering in Charlotte. There was about 5-6 people killed if I remember correctly and several others injured. It wasn’t labeled a mass shooting like it is when a white person shoots more than 2-3 people. I’m sure my review will not change anything WBTV does but I made my review anyway. WBTV you have lost my respect for you as a news source. I hope one day you can go back to the respectful, equal reporting you used to be known for! Until then I’ll get my news from an unbiased news outlet! Good luck and God bless the USA and ALL of her people!

App Issue. App no longer works since last update 4 days ago.

New app. Based on what I am reading, I don’t plan to upgrade to the new app.

Upgrade problems. Newest upgrade doesn’t work. It launches and then the display disappears. The app is still active, but is useless. The dispaly is not usable.

Live Stream NEVER Works. The live stream for this app never works it just replays commercial after commercial. Same with their live stream on their website.

NOT WORKING. I upgraded to your current app, it’s not working with the current version of software on iPhone. I gave you a low rating to get your attention.

Format. The new format on the app is terrible.

CANT EVEN OPEN IT! WHATEVER. Closes every time I open it. Please fix

Crashes on opening. Now crashes when I try to open it on both iPhone and iPad.

Update. Horrible update. I agree with “update means drop in quality”.

Trustworthy & accurate. Great local coverage in & around Charlotte

Apple Nez. App would be great if it would open. It seems to be down 45% of time. Always prompts me to Retry.

WBTV. I love WBTV From Nicholas

WBTV App. This is the most cumbersome app I have ever used! It never goes to the “click-bait” link. I am un-following you now!

WBTV. WBTV is the BEST! I rely on the station to provide the weather and news! Great programming as well! You get it all on WBTV!!

Crashing. Latest update is crashing on iPhone

Redesign. The WBT news homepage is not user friendly. It needs to be redesigned. Take a look at the Fox News site for an example.

Awesome. I love this app

Annoying. Makes noise throughout the night.

App crashes when opening after latest upgrade. After updating, the app will no longer open.

Don’t like it. Like the old one better

Commercials. I do not want to see a commercial to spot check the latest news.

Crashing. This app I used everyday but the last update it crashes on ipad and iPhone please fix

New Layout is awfull .. whatever people,,,,,!!. Go back to normal layout.. this is just confusingly painful.

App crashes. App use to work but crashes now

Old App was great!. Loved the old app! Easy to navigate, had trending, not too many ads. Am deleting WBT app and replacing with WSOC. So disappointed. I expected better from WBT.

Fix it. New app looks good but functions poorly. Less options to dial in on the news you want to see.

News. The news is usually weeks old. Seniors hasn’t been updated since last year. Can’t locate good news or southern weekend. Very disappointed

Just adds. No news. Just adds

The fonts setting does not work. Fonts are too small.. The

Live News. The live news video doesn’t play. Keeps giving error.

Fridaygirl 50. Great news App

Removing app and will not watch again after treatment of Molly.. Will not watch this station again.

Nope. Have to sit through an ad to get to an important breaking story. Plus pop ups. Bye

New update. HORRIBLE!!!! You click an article from the notifications and it closes the app and does not open the article

WBTV Upgrade. New upgrade is terrible. Bring the old app back! Too much clutter and difficult to navigate.

New app. This new app is not user. I used to use the app several times a day, but now I rarely use it. Very disappointing.

Ads. No other News Channel in the Charlotte market has ADS why does WBTV have ads????? I hate this app h