WDTN 2 News App Reviews

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WDTN. the ONLY news i’ll watch in Dayton!

WDTN. This app is good Need to live stream the news 4 5 6pm 10pm 11pm And early in the mornings too More

Change isn't always a good thing. You missed the boat with this update. Pop up ads and too long to load.

Automatic Video Play. This was my number one go to for news. Now when I click a link, it automatically plays the video associated with the topic - so annoying. If I wanted to watch the video, I’d tune into your news cast. This is a great way to wake your kids from a nap, as it isn’t user friendly when you try to quickly pause it before it’s too late. Well, it’s always too late. Will be deleting because of this.

mazda overload. Sick and tired of all the Mazda car ads interspersed with news articles...

Embarrassingly Left. They have become so liberal and one sided and biased! I only have the App for breaking news and I like Jamie for weather!

WDTN. Absolutely awful format! Very difficult to navigate, very little content. Not worth using the app.

Review. Less weather, more sports. Jack & Hutch are great. You don’t seem to realize how many Steeler fans reside here.

Not Impressed either. You should have left a good thing alone. You also need to teach people how to proofread their articles and use spell check. It is horrible the misspelling of words and the in ability to construct a sentence.

Notifications. Please stop sending an update every hour!! I receive up to 5-8 updates a day!! Sometimes more! They are no more informative than regular news. The actual info is fine, but low rating for all the time it takes to delete them in my mail. Now I’m deleting one more- the app!

BREAKING NEWS. ...THIS APP BLOWS

Not great. The layout is awful. I view WHIO because I’d the ease of use. I want it all up front. I don’t want to hunt. WDTN app is worst. I watch it on TV only.

TV2. This is the best local news channel. I really enjoy it. Good job, guys!:)

God awful!. Don't put more money in this. It can't be salvaged. Unorganized, can't find anything, just awful. Ch 7 isn't perfect, but they have the idea. They just let you scroll through news titles, and you can cover a lot of news fast. THATS the goal. Speed. Even your television station is losing viewership because of taking too long to deliver stories, and mindless interviews no one cares about. "5 on 2" is a ridiculous idea." Ch7 does one big thing wrong - they mix national stories into local stories and u don't realize you've clicked on Atlanta news til it's too late. Otherwise good app. Simplify, feed news fast, and people will return. Even B Davis takes too long.

Just 1 thing. Would like for Kelly King to stop interjecting the “uh’s “ when she is reporting .

Needs Improvement. WDTN is the channel I’ve watched for years, but if I watch it on the app, it skips and repeats way too often, or it just shuts down. My daughter heard it doing it and asked if it annoyed me. I told her yes. I’ve started watching WHIO on their app because their’s doesn’t do that.

Try again.. This layout doesn't work for me. If another version isn't out soon I'll be using other sources for my news.

No more print. Lost my last local newspaper. This website is filling the loss nicely

Recent changes are horrible. Full screen pop up ads along with layout that shows no news at launch = deleted. Going back to WHIO app.

Horrid now. App used to be ok. New update absolutely blows. Hate it now

Love channel two!. Jack Pohl, Brian, Mark are fabulous!

Change is not always good. Go back to the old layout. This one is horrible.

iOS 8 update please..no auto videos. App crashing, videos play on clicking an article, unable to see the article. If I wanted to watch the news I would do so. I don't want to see the videos and not be able to read the news.

App stinks!!!!!. Why do so many news apps need to have so many worthless ads?

Awful - download WHIO instead. Worst app on my phone right now

No “Live Feed”. The “live feed” does not work. I tried to watch The 6 pm while I was away from the house and it was not working. I even tried when I got back to the house and it still did not work. Weak app

Video Auto Start. I don’t mind the app BUT I can’t stand how videos automatically start. It is super annoying when I’m trying to check out the weather forecast, for example, and the video starts blaring (especially when I’m trying to use the app inconspicuously).

Awful. Stories are not updated. Headlines are misleading. Pathetic app

Fraudulent!. UPDATE for current version: this app is still pretty worthless a great example is the closing a page. Version before last, the list was alphabetized. So if looking for kettering, go straight to K. Looking for West Carrollton? Go through to W. Not anymore. You have to scroll down the massive list one at a time to find closings. If I wanted to waste my time, I would turn on channel 2 and watch the whole list. PREVIOUS review: Avoid this app. When you use it, every little bit (about every 3-4 pages viewed) the app suddenly takes you to the App Store to different apps. One I keep getting sent to is a hunting game. Another is some photo program. Every time this happens, WDTN is getting $$ for a "referral", the same as if you click on an ad. If I ef'ing want to view an ad, I will click on it. If I want a stupid hunting game, I am perfectly capable of finding it myself. I find this to be insulting and nothing less than fraud. WDTN is making money each time this happens. AVOID! Hopefully the WHIO app does not copy this behavior.

Works fair. I have a iPad error. Every time I turn this on it says slide up and when I do it says weight and sometimes it never comes on he just wait need some work done on other times it stops for no reason sometimes it comes back on sometimes it doesn’t. It’s either the cable service or the app.

Alert Fatigue. As described in other reviews, the interface isn’t nearly as slick and intuitive as it could be. But the big problem, in my view, is with push notifications. Just because you *can* send your users a news alert doesn’t mean you *should*. I appreciate the occasional alert related to a specific local traffic or weather event or to a significant breaking news story. But please don’t use push notifications to remind me to watch your impending newscast, or to tease some inane story, or to announce that Jeopardy is starting a half-hour early to accommodate special Olympics coverage. It’s obnoxious, and each extraneous alert brings me a little closer to deleting the app. Please exercise a little restraint.

Review. TooTo political only one sided very far left all news people need to really rethink it and be fair people all you talk about was the opposite person running for president how wonderful they are well let’s see what a great job they can’t do

Hate it. I liked being able to scroll thru headlines and decide what I want to open at a glance. Used to be my favorite - deleting

Really Bad. Please go back to the old app. This one is confusing, hard to find departments and doesn't offer news, closings or sports where they are readily accessible. A big step backwards

Minimal sports. Nice recap of local news. Sports heading still has Operation Football. Not any current high school scores or stories. Minimal College or professional news either.

Weather. Very difficult to navigate to weather forecast without having to watch video

Great news app. Great news app

Notifications Settings are broken. I downloaded this app for weather notifications. I configured the in app settings for only weather notifications but I get notifications for everything. I checked and I double checked the notification settings over and over again to make sure the only setting that was turned on was for weather notifications but I still get notifications for everything. It is so annoying and frustrating to be alerted several times an hour about stuff that I didn’t intend to use this app for.

Filled with Ads & Poor Audio Control. This ap is filled with cheesy and misleading ads for miracle cures, etc. Not what I want in a news ad. Also, audio automatically plays when you click on a news story—even when you turn your sound off. Volume must be on lowest level and sound off. Competing news channel app much better.

Don’t waste your time if you don’t like being blasted with ads. This used to be me go to local news app in Dayton. At some point they introduced auto playing ads that come on at full volume, regardless if your phone is on silent or not. Automatic app delete, if that kind of garbage design is the approach being taken. I’m not anti-ads on a free app, but that kind of approach gets one star (and zero if I could).

Don't force me to sign up for alerts. Was a good app until you forced me to sign up for alerts and updates. I don't need another app letting me know weather and news updates. Should be my choice but that was taken away with the latest update. Only choice I had was to delete app and move on. You took away my choice as a consumer.

Not impressed. It's too busy and not as easy to find different departments. Also, in the weather section, I liked reading what the meteorologist had to say as they were informative about when the rain would arrive or when the cold front was coming through, etc. I found that to be helpful.

Horrible app. This app will play video at full volume even when you don’t select a video. You can’t read a news story without it automatically playing the video at full volume. Some people in the world would rather read than watch. Don’t force someone to watch crap they don’t want to watch. I deleted this app after having it for over 10 years. Ridiculous

Poor Design. Navigating on this app is a nightmare. Hard to dismiss ads and actually get to the stories. After all this work I’d love to get more than 1 or 2 sentences about the story. Using it less and less and relying on other sources.

Horrible News app!. Too many ads, difficult to navigate, fails to open or crashes 70% of the time. There are other local news apps that are much better!

Confusing and not easy. Not user friendly, info hard to navigate to find.

Old is better. Prefer previous version I don't like clicking through to read headlines. Keep al on one page

Not going to use it. Nothing about this update is good. It doesn't work either. I've been a loyal 2News follower for many years but this "upgrade" coupled with the horrid spelling and grammar that 2News allows was the last straw.

Ugh. I don't like the changes. I hardly use anymore. Not impressed at all.

not news. just watched something on are president and what the headline said had nothing to do with the interview. so not gun friendly or country friendly news source

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New app is not user friendly. I used this app for years and was happy with it. After they changed it I had to delete it. It's that bad. If they could go back to the old layout it would be perfect again. I keep checking to see if they have yet- it seems like they would read these reviews and want to keep their fans...

There is a reason it's rated low. Like many of the pervious ratings say, the old app was better. This one is prone to freezing up and had poor navigation. There is more information in this app but its hard to access. Ill keep the app on my phone hoping they update and improve. But until that point I will likely use channel 2's app.

This just in: Poor writing style coupled with inept software design leads Dayton man to delete app. The lack of local news apps in Dayton led me to try the WDTN 2 app. I patiently waited though version updates as software developers tried to eliminate a scrolling issue that caused the page to jitter up and down when trying to scroll to the bottom of articles. Furthermore the articles aren't always coherent. I'm all for maintaining the original dialog of interviewees but if what they say is illogical, proper journalism dictates [putting what the speaker intended] in brackets. At a minimum you should acknowledge a grammatical or other language faux pas with a [sic] reference to show that the author and editor intentionally left the statement in improper English. Step up your game WDTN 2!

Off to a good start. I like the layout and the content seems to be updated frequently. The traffic alerts are great. It would be nice to open the app directly to the notification's content rather than just the home page of the app. Also, there is a super buggy problem with scrolling the news articles themselves.

I've changed my Dayton news app to WHIO. I echo other reviewers. This app is a step backwards. Hard to navigate, slow, and you cannot adjust the font size. I have deleted this app and now use WHIO for Dayton news. The new app may be an affiliate network issue -- WKRC is similar in format for Cincy news and is just as slow and accessibility-UNfriendly (I use WCPO and love it). I will check back in 6 months but it sounds like the new format is a corporate decision unlikely to be reversed so I don't hold out much hope that these reviews will make a difference.

Great App, But Has Problems - Please Fix. Terrific app! Very well designed and user- friendly. However, the app has some issues. Among these, it does not clear the "notifications alert" number in the upper corner of the app icon when the app is opened. The app must be fully closed and restarted every time to clear the number. Please fix this issue as soon as possible. Thank You.

Generally good app - sorting was not fixed on closings though.. It does everything I need of it. Weather is unnecessarily confusing though. Additionally it is a real pain to have the closings and delays not sorted. Especially considering the update was supposed to fix that.

Broken!. Ads hide half of news stories, photos are covered by headlines, and breaking news story selection is useless. House fires and meth bust don't impact my life as much as say, interstates being shut down by flash flooding. Why isn't that breaking news?! This ap is still basically useless as a news source. Disappointing.

Horrible. Lately this app is atrocious. The news story I select does not open. Something else does. Scrolling does not help - the stories are not in the same order as on the home page and multiple news stories are duplicated(?), and often the one I originally selected never opens up. And I would like to be able to read a detailed weather forecast; not have to watch and listen to the video forecast.

Do not waste your time. Used to read the news on the channel 2 app several times a day but app is now worthless. Way too many ads that they sneak into the scroll path so you open them inadvertently and it is extremely buggy. Some stories you click on just keep trying to open windows and get stuck in some sort of loop or it just crashes altogether. No, it's not my iPad, I have a 3 month old iPad Pro fully up to date and no issues with other apps. Deleted this crappy, buggy app after they ruined it.

Horrible. Awful!! I have never written a review before but feel I must today. This is terrible! I don't know what was wrong with the last version of this app but it was tons better than this. I'm not a fan of the other local news stations but this app is making me look elsewhere for my news a weather. What a shame. Upgrade? I don't think so.

Keep Trying. Used to be a decent app, but you made a good thing worse. Many many bugs. Can't reset notifications, hourly weather is out of order, can't find alert stories, stories that just happened says "updated 5 days ago". So frustrating, so I deleted until it gets fixed. I so wish it worked correctly. Keep trying!

Good app slow story update. Over all this is good app. The only issue is stories don't aways update when they pop up on my screen. There's usually about a hour delay.

12 reviews, none above 1star.. Channel 2 wants to ignore all of us, who would like to watch and read best news in town. But everything about this app is worthless, from the window to the ads. Crashes all the time, and they have been told about problems, that they don't or won't fix! Goodbye WDTN!

App Works. I just installed the app & navigated all over with one hiccup. I find that every app has a hiccup or two; what can you expect from free stuff. Most free apps are well worth what we pay for them.

The old app was better!. I just downloaded the new version on March 9, 2013 and now the app won't load at all. Just get a message saying "error loading page". Got the same error on the iPhone version, as well. If it isn't fixed soon I'll be deleting the app. I used to use it every day.

Latest Update. The notification flag now says nine! No matter what I do, I cannot clear the flag. I will delete this one and download another news app! I cannot seem to clear the notification flag on this app. Ever since the last update several days ago, the flag remains and will not clear. Can you please correct this!

Needs work. I like the general layout and navigation. The problem I've run into many times is that when I try to email the URL of an article to a friend, the URL that is in the email is not for the article that I'm looking at. It is always for a previous article, and the only way to get the right one is to completely reboot the iPad.

Has issues. Unable to clear the multiple notifications from app icon. Links won't load, get message "no stories available", click on weather and it rarely loads, etc. this was an awesome app when it first came out. It's been on the decline for some time now. Please don't make me start using a WHIO app!! Please fix bugs. Thanks

Two words, HATE IT. With the original app, you could choose to install the iPad or iPhone versions on your iPad. We never installed the original iPad version, as we preferred the simple looking iPhone version. You have now taken that option away, as well as mucking up the iPhone version. They're too cluttered, too much going on, not as easy to use, not to mention, the response time is awful. There is too much info on these apps to move any faster. The home screen of the phone app is completely taken up by one story. I agree with a previous review, you should have taken the time to "road test" this one before you stopped supporting the old app. Very disappointed.

It's worse now!. This new update is horrible. The app almost never loads, all I get a load circle. When it does load, the articles almost never come up. And wen you get in to a article, it freezes and you can't get back out. I have to kill the app and start it back up just to view the news. Please fix! IPad 2, 16gig, iOS 6.1.

Notifications keep mounting?. I like the interface but I'm not sure how to eliminate the notifications the site sends out. I'm up to 15 now. I've pulled down my notification bar on the top of my phone but they are not there. I like receiving the notifications I just want robe able to view them.

Used to work great. App will not load stories. Have closed app and restarted phone and still am getting an error stating that it can load stories. The ironic part is that push notifications still come through... Just can't read the news story. Miss the older app!

Disable the advertisements!!!!!. I use this app a lot to check the weather and local news. It frustrates me every time I open the app I have to deal with pesky advertisements that auto play. Please disable this in future releases. Would love to see you remove all advertising altogether. Maybe you should create a pay app with no advertisements. That would make me happy.

Horrible. Agree with the other posts. I like the old one 100 times better. Ads take up too much space, top stories take up way too much space also. Extremely hard to navigate. Already deleted and searching for a different news outlet.

Annoying Notification badge. The badge icon goes away but keeps updating itself with every sent Notification. So it says I have like 60 new stories. Go into that app clear it out the next time I get a notification to be 61 new stories. Very annoying. Also video crashes the app every time you click on it.

It just accesses the mobile web page. This is terrible! The old app was much better and an app, all this does is just accesses the mobile web page. I could just put a bookmark on my home page and save the memory usage for something more worth while. Go back to the old app please. Would give it no stars but can't.

Doing much better now. At the outset this app was awful. They seem to have worked through the bugs. Doing much better now.

App is ok but needs some improving.... Biggest complaint is that the ads get in the way - you can tell there is content behind the ad, but you can't get the screen to scroll down to get to the content. And whoever puts content on the "site" needs to do a better job of it for the winter closing a and delays - just put a list up in alphabetical order and skip the counties - half the time you have the wrong county for the closing. It makes it hard to find your closing - if they are all alphabetized in a list, you can find your closing instantly. New format seems fine overall.

Needs more work. Please add in the ability to back out of a story and resume where you left off. If I'm 10 stories down why should jump back to the top of the list? Also, why doesn't clicking a notification actually take you to the story instead of the home page like most apps do. Why alert us of news if we must go searching for it? Finally, improve story loading times. They're a bit slow to load compared to other apps.

Great source for Dayton news and weather. I don't usually have time to watch the local news on television, but everything that I would want to see is available through this app. I especially appreciate the regular updates to the weather broadcasts. Probably the best app from Dayton-area media.

Junk, junk, junk. Ads take over everything. If you're playing iTunes SiriuaXM, it kicks you off. I wrote them and complain about it. They never replied. So, I have deleted off of the phone and iPad. Use WHIO instead. It's hard to see how they they have a winning business plan when you're driving customers away.

Don't download. Has tons of audio ads that pop up unexpectedly. Can't continue using app until you let the ad play. Never check the weather or news in a public setting, or you may have a very loud ad play unexpectedly. Very disappointing!!

The app has problems.... I like the local focus of this app but it has some very annoying features. First, there are way too many pop up ads. The get in the way of finding the information you need. Second, there seems to be no way of clearing notifications. They just keep climbing. If it isn't fixed soon I'm going to delete this one.

Too Much!. New version is too busy and it's complicated to get to weather radar. There's just too much on the screen. I prefer a more streamlined version instead of click here here and here to get basic news/weather. I keep deleting and reloading the app periodically hoping it will get better.

Automatic ads starting 👎👎👎👎👎. Main reason I vary rarely open this app to look at local news. The advertising videos start automatically and I can't stop them in time. Also the layout is very hard to use. I normally use a competitors news app, much more user friendly.

Mr.. Definitely not worth the trouble of downloading. This app was created, not to inform you of the news, but to generate them profit. Profit that they should already be getting from their advertisements on tv. Every time that you open this app you have to close out a full screen advertisement and each page after has advertisements that pop up. This app is for money not news. I will give it a one star rating just because after you get by the advertisements there is some news, minus the one sided political point of view.

Spams You With a Loud Video on Start-Up!. This is terrible! Without any warning, when you open up the app, it starts out with a very loud advertising video! When you are trying to read the news in peace a quiet and the loud SPAM starts, it is rather shocking! I liked this app better than the WHIO app, however, now, I know I will not use the WDTN app when checking the news other than at home. I should not have to mute my iPhone to avoid unwanted SPAM videos that are forced on you without warning.

Bugs fixed. Many of the initial bugs have been fixed. This is much better than the first edition.

Fix the notification badge bug!!. This app has been fine as far as news coverage but for the last several weeks there has been something wrong with notification badge. It is at 32 right now and rising. There is no way to permanently clear or reset the count. It used to go away temporarily when I open the app but now it doesn't even do that. I deleted it and re downloaded it but that didn't even give me a fresh count. 39 and rising. I hope I don't have to permanently delete this app to eliminate this problem.

Pure crap. Hit a wrong button and now for over 36 hours when I try to open it all I get is a twitter sign in page with no way to return to WDTN. Even before that I found blind links and slow loading to be major problems. I'll stick with WHIO app. Even though it's only optimized for iPhone it's still better than this app.

News and Notifications. The only Dayton news app that keeps up on current events.

Great news...terrible app!. There's no doubt the best newsroom in town resides at wdtn, but the best web/app presence is still up for grabs. Weather section is slow enough that I stick with the Weather Channel app even for local info. The news articles themselves are not updated timely and rarely give adequate information to report the news. The reason I utilize the app is because I either am not in a position to watch the news or have time. I'm not going to "watch" the 5pm, 6pm or 11pm news to get the whole story. The app itself isn't very user-friendly in terms of navigation. You can't freely flow between stories or news categories. The app routinely crashes, especially when trying to load weather and moving between stories and news categories. As much as I love and appreciate WDTN for their news, this app isn't anywhere close to the same high standards expected from their newsroom.

What Streaming Video?. While this is definitely an improvement over using the iPhone version on my iPad, I have yet to get the live streaming to work. It keeps telling me it's "currently unavailable." It's 11:13 PM and I know they are broadcasting. So what's up with that?

Total piece of crap!. Don't even bother using this app! The new updates have severely ruined it . Click a story and it gives you a different one, the same reports are duplicated repeatedly in the list. If it does manage to load a report half of it will be hidden behind an advertisement ... And it crashes every time you use it! I'm very frustrated and disappointed as this used to be a great source for Dayton news... Now all I've got is the WHIO app , which at least works but doesn't seem to have all the stories wdtn does.

Untapped apps won't go away!!!. I used to like this app but I can't stand the untapped alerts hanging around! Think it must have come in on the latest update! Dumb Idea!!! If I was interested I would read them!!! I tried deleting and reinstalling the app and they won't go away! I am dumping this app for now. It is too annoying!!!!

Video won't load-EVER!. I just dumped my app so I could reload it, never have gotten a video for a news story to play. The advertisements (commercials) play fine, sometimes twice. I want local news, I hope reloading works, if it doesn't, I'm saying bye-bye! Reloading did not change anything, commercials play fine, the news story says it is loading................... Until it times out. Ridiculous!

Same crappy app. They did not fix any bugs this app is junk. Stories do not load right. You click on one and a different one opens. Try to email story loads different story link than the one you are on. My two year old could build a better app. Click on contact app developer and no way to contact them

New update. The new update is absolutely TERRIBLE. It crashes constantly, always has notifications even after opening, never can see the same stories on the homepage. Sometimes even see a story you want to read and comeback moments later and can't find it anywhere. Just a terrible update, I don't even use it anymore. Notifications badge shows I have 81, not true at all.

Not my favorite. The app works, OK. I'd give it more stars, however the articles rotate after you click on one and read it. I can't keep my place and they don't seem to update the news articles as often as they should (regular site has up to date articles faster). Please fix this:). The text in the articles are covered by ads and you can't read the full story.