WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids News App Reviews

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The new format. This app is not friendly user. It gets hung up in ads all the time, I like to read more than watch a video. Sports score part is terrible, and not kept up to date. It’s become more of a Ad site than a news site.

Long time viewer. I am 77 years old and grew up with only 3 channels available most days depending on which way to turn the aerial. My family chose channel 8 to watch all the time. Bill Allen lived nearby and I his daughter was my first girlfriend.

App glitches. I like the news updates/notifications. But the app isn’t setup in a manner where you see relative information in one place. I like the way it was organized before they revamped it. It also just shuts down on me sometimes. But I like the instant news notifications.

Good work love the app. I have no problems on the app whatsoever but the one bug that I have is that every time I try to go and watch early morning daybreak or eight W. or news eight at noon when I watch the live video I love watching that I enjoy the app big fan of wood TV8 love you guys I grew up watching wood TV8 and I love watching wood TV8 and it has all of the news and weather to watch and look out for! So keep updating and keep updating the app and maybe add some more features in new features and I would love to have wood TV eight on Roku

New version wrecked it again. No such thing as real news anymore. This app is no different. Now they “upgraded” it and its terrible. Used to be okay now it’s a mess. Tons of advertising and the simplicity is gone. I’m all about change but this change is bad. Hard to navigate, can’t easily check the weather in other cities like you could before.

Is the app or my phone?. Many times the video is choppy and repeats multiple times. Other times the video is not available. I deleted the app and reinstalled it to no avail. I love wood TV eight and the anchors and wish the app was better! I miss the news!

Video Auto Play. Excellent app. for news, school closures and more. It seems the most recent update has added video auto play to news stories. It was startling. Be aware that there is a very clear setting that allows you to disable auto play.

Stop the auto-play. The most recent version of the app is incredibly frustrating! I would like to be able to check the weather details without the video forecast playing automatically with no clear option for stopping it. Please fix this!

Something is wrong. Every time I go to the weather details the weather video plays in the background. Please fix this as it is annoying when I just want to check the temps. If I want to hear and see he weather video I can just tab over to it.

My #1 news app. Best news in the west Michigan area and constantly improving Easy to use and has up to date info great app and station

Once upon a time Loved Wood TV 8. Among the many things that make viewing and listening to your content are the advertisements. I understand the need for commercials, but why have the banners during the news clip. They overlap the view and Wood TV programmers have chosen to disable the full screen mode. Come on what good is your app if people give up on the clumsiness of it. I’ve gone from a daily viewer to a rare viewer.

Good app with too many ads. I’d love to give it 5 stars but there are too many ads embedded everywhere. It disrupts the stories with gifs and pops ups. Give us a version with no ads, even if I have to pay, and you’ll get your five stars.

News 8 lifer. Have been ‘with’ WOOD my entire life. (Over 45 yrs) and this is where I’ll stay. Never really read the paper, but always keep informed here @ news8. When I found out I could receive info via my fone, I signed right up. Never had any trouble or problems. 😊 Thank you!

Annoying. I find WOODTV very annoying most of the time, especially when they are self promoting:" you'll only see this on 8". Can't stand that kind of childish and unprofessional behavior. Also the same with the adds for WOODTV, they are done in such a way that it grates on my nerves, the voice is very abrasive. I find myself more and more switching to other local channels.

Too many ads. I really prefer to get news and weather info from channel 8, but there are way too many ads thrown in my face. I hit the x to get rid of them and an told "we'll try not to show that ad again" and the same one immediately pops up! Please do something about this. I come to get news and weather not see advertisements. If this doesn't stop I will go elsewhere!

Videos start playing automatically. Recently the videos I news stories start playing automatically. This is annoying as it disrupts children sleeping or studying when all I want to do is read the article. Please switch this back!

News Team Limits Free Speech. Ah, another article claiming that anyone who questions vaccines is “buying into a hoax” and my favorite...Russian bots have been spreading “misinformation.” WoodTV you are making your oppression of free speech so blatantly obvious it’s mind blowing. Maybe you should interview one of the thousands of doctors and former vaccine developers to hear their side...then it wouldn’t be so obvious as to which side you are really on. #biasednewsreporting #1984

Hard to say good things…. This app is now completely “stuffed” with app-slowing ads. Adding to the madness, many ads are duplicated numerous times throughout the articles. In fact, there is one big ad box that must be removed b4 even seeing anything. There are also ad links to hoards of phony news articles that, to me, puts in question this news organization’s credibility. In short, this app quality went from Excellent to Poor over the many years I have used it; disappointing to say the least.

Good Work But.... My Go-To station for news and weather has been Channel 8 for over 50 years. I know that times and audiences change and that means programming does too. The quality of the newscasters and the meteorologists rank very high with me. I just wish the “behind the scenes” personnel could pay more attention to what is on screen. Often the captioning is not accurate, and sometimes the person on air has to request the appropriate caption. I know you probably cannot do anything about my other complaint. I’d rather hear the whole news/weather story in its entirety than to get it in disjointed snippets over the entire broadcast.

Live streaming is great, when it works!. I love to watch News 8 on my iPad using the live streaming feature! I run into a lot of problems though with it just stopping, or fast forwarding, or going blank. Not sure where these issues are coming from. What I HATE about live streaming is when the program cuts to commercial and the ads blared at FULL BLAST!!!! Please, how about some volume control? I’m not deaf!!

Ads ads and more ads. I upgraded my iphone and now I have to be careful when I swipe up to close the intro ad I end up closing the app. Then I get to the story and after every paragraph there is an ad, I understand that ads are needed since the app is free but my goodness do we really need 5+ ads a story? Then I get the issue where the ad takes up my screen and every time I try to scroll past it the app thinks I clicked to see the ad and opens it my browser and I have to close the app to get out of that loop. Easy fix is to just have a ad banner that stays at the top or bottom and just scrolls different ads, not to hard. The swiping to get rid of the intro ad can be a click button, solved…

Garbage. So when it works, you have the pleasure of swiping up on every single story. Some of the advertisers even pole fun at this with instructions that say swipe up, as in yeah, we think this is silly too. But most of the time, it doesn’t work. You’ll get a plain white screen and a bender ad at the bottom, with zero actual content. Skip this app. It’ll only sour your view on the whole channel.

Now, virtually unusable. I followed a weather alert from WOODTV to the app on my iPad yesterday. It did not take me to the story but a page that had stories vaguely related to the alert. From there I could not get back to any kind of directory. It just seemed stuck. I finally had to just close out of the app since I could do nothing at that point. This update’s about two weeks old so (I’m embarrassed to admit) this is probably first time I’ve used it. The app use to work well. Now? I am giving you a very generous two stars for now. Fix this mess.

Too long load!. The news articles don’t load 90% of the time and you have to keep trying until they do, very irritating. The other functions of the app are even worse like the function to open up for the storm team 8 panel is impossible to open. And if by chance it does open, the data takes way too long to load. Worse app ever!

Annoying. This app is very annoying when you open an article it automatically plays a video and you can’t turn it off. I don’t want a video, I want to read an article. Please turn off the video, or put an option to turn that feature off so it doesn’t automatically play the video.

Improving to three stars. Have made some improvements. Not having to watch repeated commercials with each video I click on. Still too many though. Sensationalism is still too high. Also 8 will many times report one side of a story. Get both sides and report “fairly”. What is reported as racism isn’t racism once all the facts are sought. Not in the best interest of the community.

Adds pop up. This is weird as I see adds pop up in the app. Even when you go to the website there are adds. It’s not easy to find information like weather or news without some stupid add popping up or it not loading the page. So, rating it 2 stars is actually being nice. Might just delete it.

Great Local News Source. June 2018: This app has finally arrived. It works smoothly and seems to be quite stable. The interface is clean, uncluttered, and intuitive. There are a number of ads, of course, but they are not overwhelming or overly intrusive. This is a great source for local news and important developments such as the weather and school closings. January 2017: I haven't reviewed this app for three years now, but my previous comment stands. I don't find it as bad as some others, and I do find it a good source of information for local news. Weather reports in school closings are vital information for me. However, this latest update has crashed it. It opens and locks on the screen that says "fetching articles". Jan 2014: Latest update is causing crashes. Can't use the weather button at all as it crashes the app. After some very bad versions, this app finally works well. The UI is clear and works smoothly. Navigation is very good. All in all this is now pretty decent app and good for local news, weather, and school closings.

Best news service with the worst app ever. This app is garbage. Truly. Someone needs to say it. The advertisement that overlays the opening welcome screen (swipe up to remove) is beyond annoying. The volume of ads throughout the experience are painful. The strength of woodtv is your weather and your app makes it insanely hard to get any detailed forecast. The app is horrible. Honestly… at the risk of sounding like a Karen you really should throw it away and start over - this is genuinely a worst-in-class user experience. It has been for YEARs (even with your old app). Think you need to hire someone who knows what they are doing.

The Whole Press Conference. I am grateful you carry the President’s Press Conferences but am greatly disturbed and upset that you apparently refuse to carry it all. You show part of it and in recent conferences have cut out doctors or other government leaders who are giving us needed information. I am not sure if you have decided whether or not that it is all relevant, but that should be for us to decide. We need the office of the Presidency supported and not undermined. We need to hear what our leaders are doing or not able to do. When you cut away from our leaders then your newscasters try to say what has just been said. In a coronavirus pandemic an hour a night or what is needed is part of your purpose in serving the community and nation. I turn to other channels to get more until they cut off the conference. Saying we can go search for the rest somewhere else does not cut it fo me. Please consider these comments seriously.

Fewer crashes. Finally a platform that is as useful as it is informative. The crashes have stopped but the screen freezes every now and then. The redesigned home page is logical and intuitive. You’ve come a long way baby. That was then. The crashes are back and the screen lockup’s are a new benefit.

Return local channels. I have not been able to get WOOD TV since July 4th!! I am going to end all TV viewing if not returned by the end of the month and listen to the Radio I only watched News 8 for 27 years that’s when I moved to Grand Rapids

Far left station. This television station does not hide the fact that they lean way to the far left as far as political standings. During these difficult times we need networks to be telling us the news fairly and without bias, and unfortunately, this station has become very liberal in their ‘reporting’.

THE Station to follow...... The absolute best station for news and weather in West Michigan. Bill Steffen and the Storm Team 8 team are the best there is. I live in North Carolina now, but still follow them daily. Accurate, dependable, educational. You’re simply the best! Bill A.

Mostly good but..... In many ways this is a great news source, BUT the app freezes all the time. The only thing you can do is close it completely and start over.

Weather. I have a difficult time getting the forecast to play and to update. Others I have talked to are having difficulty’s as well.

Quick updates. It’s a quick way for me to stay informed. They refresh their news updates constantly.

So much better!. I was getting really frustrated with the app but the new upgrades have made a world of difference! Waiting through the ads SO tiresome and I considered trying another app. This change is fabulous!!

Not positive enough.. Decent app, bunch of news but literally 98% of the notifications I get are about death. Where’s the positivity? I know it’s there I see it when I scan through the news but why only notifications for death and injuries? This would be all that bad if notifications were rare from here but I get at least 10 a day.

Bad layout. Seems hard to navigate to the different news types and some are duplicated. I dislike the boxes below on the main page. Main page only has 3 topics. Difficult to navigate to another section once leaving the main page

Not useful anymore. Getting to the weather is not as easy. The radar his horrible! I can’t get on the app at work because it automatically starts playing videos. I can’t have that while I’m working. When you click on a story and hit the back button it doesn’t go back to the home screen. The upgrade has defiantly been a fail! I’d deal with it if I could at least get good weather info and not have a video come on every time.

Poor News. This app used to be my go-to for local news and information around Grand Rapids, MI. Anything I might have heard about, I knew I could rely on WoodTV8 for laying out the info clear, concise and helpful. Now, they have chosen the route of seemingly ONLY posting political information while very clearly indicating whose “side” they’re on...just like all the ‘big guys’ who are paid off to report only info that bashes their opposing beliefs. Really sad to delete this app today, just miss the home-grown stories. The app itself could use some help too, in case that’s what you came here to find out.

Consistent app crashes for months. Every time I try and use this app it is slow and laggy. It eventually crashes every time I try and open an article. Will you please fix whatever issues you have, because everything was fine a few months ago. This has gone on for too long

Worse with each update. Performance of the app makes it almost unusable now on an iPad mini 2. Lots of forced advertisements, takes a very long time to load up, and then is very laggy. Can’t even get the weather to load. Maybe the iPad mini 2 hardware isn’t enough? But why would a news and weather app need so much power to run? Seems it is not optimized at all. Previous version ran fine.

WOOD 8 review. II also follow the news from WFLA in Tampa Florida. They not only cover news from around stamps but also around the country. At times they posted news from West Michigan that were not covered by WOODTV 8. I wondered why would a station in Florida cover our local news when our local NBC station didn’t cover it. There was also news about Jack Doles that WOOD TV 8 did not cover.

They finally got it right!. Well done update that makes sense. I was about to dump this app before this update. Thanks for listening.

Your ad model is ridiculous. The number of ads in this app is far greater than the number of news stories. The ads randomly open other web pages and the App Store without me clicking on them. Here’s the best part there’s a whole section of ads that are like not ads but fake news ads that look just like the real news stories. It’s really shameful in my opinion. I’ve put up with it for years because I like to stay informed about my community. I’ve had enough though. Maybe I’ll try MLive instead.

So many outdated stories. Want to check on the Tigers? Ok, if you want to know what they did two weeks ago. Many of their links aren’t updated so they’re virtually useless.

After update the video plays and can’t be stopped or muted. I was quite irate when after a update when I click on a news link and instead of being able to have the option on clicking on the video to watch the news story, it now automatically plays, and there is no muting or stopping the video. Before the update you could read only the news story and not worry about burning up data to watch the story. Nothing pisses off a wife more at 4am when I wake up and look at my phone for the latest news when she just got home from a 12hr shift at 2am from working in the hospital and automatically the news story you just wanted to read only starts playing video.

Your Help system is screwed. I have a bug to report. Two actually. First, I got a news notification when I don’t have it enabled. Second, went to report the bug and only had general help on the app so came here and went to the website which told me to go back to the app and use the feedback option, which doesn’t exist on the screen they showed me. Nice catch 22 guys.

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Muskegon. Weather always shows the lake from Grand Haven and South Haven. Why doesn’t it show the lake from Muskegon? We feel left out!

Terrible. Terrible app. When trying to read a news story you get blasted with an ad, then the news story comes blasting next. Decreases my need to use this app considerably, since I prefer to read a news story rather than having bias inflected from the newscaster.

News. Informative, I read it several times a day on my I Pad and I Phone. Always good to know what is going on locally and internationally.

Clunky and slow. Clunky and slow. Freezes up my ipad. Stay away from this one. Ads between every 2 lines of text.

Don’t Like New Format. The new app format is a strange layout. I don’t like the narrow headline pictures. Also, why can’t the current weather forecast be loaded more timely. I checked the app at 8:30 in the morning, and I get the forecast from 11:00 the night before. That’s not relevant.

Not now. Later

Needs revision to make for easier navigation. Older version made access to weather/radar much easier to get to. Harder to get to news articles now. Perhaps additional tweeking is in order?? Still heavy on advertising.

Greg. Not too bad. I am a totally blind user. Wish you could illuminate the advertisements every time you open the ad. I do not like advertisements.

Freezes. Since the new update screen freezes a lot. I think it is adds doing it.

New Update Still Doesn’t Work. New update still freezes. Switching to different local news app due to constant issues and ads. Other local news outlets don’t have ads. If you want to compete with the others, do better and remove the ads.

Crashes all the time. A couple weeks ago I noticed this app would become completely unresponsive when viewing a story. Now it’s almost a guarantee it’ll crash if I use it more than a couple minutes.

Just okay. Don’t like the new layout and when breaking news alerts occur I always get 2 of them now. Why? I only have it installed once but 2 alerts. Annoying

Don’t use this on an iPad. This is the worst. Slow to load despite 5G internet. Quirky. Jumps around Full screen ads block out small news reports. And then crashes. Don’t believe all the glowing reviews written by Nexstar employees. Get your news elsewhere

Frustrating ads!!!. I’ve used this app for over 2 years. It’s been great and I love it but two starts until they fix the auto play ads that now have sound every time you open an article! So annoying!!

Liberal MSM. TV 8 follows along a liberal line with NBC . It’s too bad that news can’t just be news. No opinions needed. I do remember when all that we got was facts and real news. Unfortunately those days are long gone.

App annoying. I hate the pop up video ads. Just list the stories and let me read them. At least mute the videos. If people want to watch them they can unmute them. App freezes up frequently

Notification Links. The one thing about this app that absolutely drive me crazy is that when a notification about an article is sent out and then you click it thinking it will take you to that article and it just tells you no article found.

Stop the automatic broadcast. Super annoying that every time I view the weather audio starts. Other than that- nothing special- ordinary app

Live Feeds. Several times this week you’ve had live feeds. I have gone to listen and the camera is on and no one is reporting. What gives?

Hate it!. Hate this ap!!! Whenever I click on a news headline to read the story, an advertisement video ALWAYS automatically starts playing. Have to quickly turn my volume off or just leave the app entirely so people around me don’t hear it. Super annoying.

Curfew reporting. Very disappointed in the curfew coverage by Heather. She was encouraging protesters that broke curfew rules- giving them an audience. Inappropriate comments regarding her thoughts regarding what police should or shouldn’t do..not her job. “protesters would have left if police chief had joined protest”. He made it very clear that he would do that in an approved organized gathering. Poor news casting

Crashes and videos do not load. This used to be my go to app for local news but it is worthless after they changed it. It crashes often and when you select a video in a story it only shows a app commercial.

Weather video does not work. Nice update. Weather forecast in video format still doesn’t work.

Video. The app is great except for the weather page, when you open the page a video automatically starts playing which is very annoying when you are in a place where you want minimal noise.

L porter. News 8 on the go keeps me posted when traveling.

I like the old app better..... Changing my previous review. The new app is more cumbersome and riddled with commercials. I could easily see news by county....view weather info. Now the weather radar seems smaller than the commercial spots. Loved the old app....not so thrilled with the new app! Previous review .... 2019 Much improved! I really like your app....keep it the way it is. Thanks for all the improvements and listening to suggestions!

Worst Radar Ever. Your online radar is great, however it appears as though this app loads the same radar as the web version, and scroll through past or future radar is impossible because the scroll part is too small, you just end up clicking an ad.

Fix the bugs. Love the WOODTV 8 app but so tired of the last few weeks it freezes up while I’m trying to read a story and have to close out to come back several times.

Upgrade. The upgrade is awful, especially weather “tab” no accurate, doesn’t refresh..... Prefer text included, cannot always play video!

Love tv8. Watched tv8 for over 45 years, hope to continue watching for another 45 years

Annoying. You can't even read an article without a loud annoying video pop up playing a commercial. After it opened the FOURTH time while I was trying to read one short article I rage quit the app.

Poor voice over compatibility. This app does not work well with Apple voiceover, screen reader for the blind, to relay all pertinent information. A must in getting this app fixed for the blind and low vision community in the Grand Rapids area.

I LOVE THE NEW APP!! Way to go WOODTV 8. I was very impressed with the new changes to this application. Easy to use. Very informative and update to date information. Just WOW!

Used every version. Still can’t see all the photos in Bills blog or a clickable link like in some of the original versions. Otherwise I like the app

Continuous pop up. I am trying to read the articles and I continuously get a pop up for Harvest Health Foods. This happens about every 30 seconds and I am stuck on the pop up for about 10 seconds. I have all notifications turned off. I will never go to that business. How can I get this to stop?

News. This is a great app and I enjoy it keep me up to date on everything!!(:

What now!?. The amount of annoying ads is one thing but now you put pop up ads embedded in the stories that make trying to read impossible. Please fix this now and stop being so much about the bottom line. On to 13.

Works. The app works pretty well. Wood TV tends to parrot whatever NBC reports in national news. I've grown tired of the biased news, and have decided to look elsewhere. I'm not a big fan of the president, but I agree with the fake news aspect.

Want to like. I used to like the live video feature, but it crashes a lot or only plays ads over and over and never gets to the video.

Unusable. The app freezes up all the time. Whenever a story is clicked on or try to look under weather tab it just freezes. The app is pretty much useless in the current state.

Auto play videos and ads. This app still lives in early 2000s when auto play videos and ads were a thing. You cannot use this app in any environment where noise is an issue because videos will just start blaring. But this is a small community app so it’s expected to be very primitive and dated.

Update. Love the newest update! Great coverage of local and national news!

Not pleased. I do not like this new version. Too much playing around to see things. If there was 1 good thing.. it would be that you no longer have to scroll to the end of the story and wait until you could go back to the home page.

Videos/Ads. I’m generally happy with the app but please have it stop auto playing videos and ads!! It always knocks my Bluetooth off whenever I open the app!

“Live” needs work. I use this app while I get ready for work every morning and it never fails to have glitches and skipping/playing back. I always have to select fast forward to correct it. I have tried reinstalling it but that didn’t help.

Notifications are timely and helpful.. Easy to use and great for staying informed.

Great site for W. MI news & Weather. Clear organization. Always updated. Weather predictions as accurate as they can be in the Great Lake state 🙂

Hate the video that always plays. While I realize this is a TV app, I can’t stand that the video always plays when you open a story. It’s loud, ads are awful a d if I wanted to watch the news story I would watch tv. Maybe take it off?!

An app that just shows the WoodTV logo? Lol.. Sits on the first screen with the logo and stays there indefinitely. Have had the app for over a year and has not worked in months and months. I keep checking it to see if it’s fixed but no. Unusable app.

Stop auto play. I like the app but I do not like the new update. The videos automatically play when I just want to read the article.