WISN 12 News - Milwaukee App Reviews

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More updates needed. It seems that the exact same stories are on four 10 or more hours. In addition, the focus of news is limited to the Milwaukee area. It would be nice if WISN coverage could be expanded to include more news from Small communities in SE Wisconsin and refresh with more frequent updates or new stories.

Coming Out of the Closet...We See You!. I have been watching channel 12 for decades and I have finally realized just how “left leaning politically” your news people are...especially Joyce Garbaciak...she’s very good at her broadcasting skill but her bias and liberalism shows through...would love to see her express how “proud and honored” she is to interview President Trump like she proclaimed about Obama...don’t watch your news or ABC programs like Good Morning America, the past 90 plus days of coverage of the riots and destruction in democratic run cities, like Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kenosha anymore because of it...oh, that’s right, you didn’t show that from the beginning...that is until the Republicans outed you liberals and socialistic wanna be’s ...I just watch General Hospital on ABC because I have to...and that’s only until some other network picks it up! Shame on you...USA USA KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!!

Outstanding. You have a outstanding crew on channel 12.i have been watching your station for over 46 years

Comprehensive. I moved to North Carolina 6 years ago and still prefer the ap over local ones here. It is accurate, comprehensive for local and national news. Love it!

Good App, less push notifications. I like this app. I want news alerts so I have push notifications turned on, but the alerts that get pushed need to be filtered/chosen better. Stick with breaking news only. Something small should not be pushed out. People can read about it on the app.

Disappointed and annoyed by the newest updates.. WISN is my preferred option for news and entertainment and I used to love the old app. Now, there are far too many pop up ads, ads that play automatically, and too many meaningless news alerts. I wish there was a way to choose which I’d like to receive. Additionally, when I do see a news alert that I’d like to read more completely, I swipe to do so and not only does the news alert disappear, I can’t find it listed in the app! Even when you put the subject in the search field, nothing.

Story Finding. While I enjoy the stories and breaking news, it can be very difficult to find. If I don’t click a story as soon as I get an alert it’s almost impossible to find.

My go-to for news. Love this station and the app is great. My only suggestion is to have the the weather map automatically load. It is nice at a glance to be able to see what is headed our way.

Disappointed in new format. I was a huge fan of the old app. This new format is much too difficult to find what I want, has WAY too many ads (some that flash and cause the onset of a migraine) and far, far too many notifications that I could care less about. I want my old app back. Now videos start to play when I'm trying to read a story. Getting very close to deleting this off my phone!!!

Forced to Listen to Ads. I like the news coverage. The problem is when you click on a particular item, you have to listen to 5 seconds of an ad. If there was a way to silence this feature, I would give 5 stars.

Bias. The news stories are written show a direct bias against President Trump and other conservative individuals. WISN reveals virtually no negative stories on Joe Biden or family members. Where is the complete story on Hunter or Jim Biden? WISN’s president commentaries are very slanted toward the liberal ideals. If I am watching the station’s news show I am now changing the station before her presentations are completed.

Headline. I like the convenience of having the app to glance at quick news stories, but when a notification headline is sent...I can never find that news story, even seconds after it’s broadcast. Occasionally, I find one interesting and would like to read it right away, so I end up scrolling through the whole headline page and it isn’t there. Please fix that. I shouldn’t have to spend five minutes of my day looking for an alert headline that isn’t there. Thank you.

Unstable and getting worse (unusable). App used to be nice. Now ad videos auto play while just scrolling. Annoying when you reading news in bed and you wake your spouse with annoying noise. Before you can watch a small 15 second clip, you have to watch a 30 second commercial. The commercials that you click on, at least you know will play sound....except they don't. Lol. The companies paying for ads are wasting money. As of today, the app crashes 3 seconds after opening. Deleted app, cookies, etc, rebooted, reinstalled...still crashing. Just keeps getting worse. Gonna try other news sources besides hearst.

COVID-19. Ever since this Global Pandemic was declared, WISN 12 has been my go-to place for the latest updates and news. I downloaded the App and set up the alerts. It gives me the power to be informed.

Updates more frequent..... Would appreciate current updates....see some of the same items for too long. Also some additional current items in the news casts put on site. You are my go-to station!

Newsworthy station. Been listening to your station for many years have tried other news stations but your is the most informative we love it!!!!

WISN app. The app is great. Unfortunately the “Breaking News” seems to be Milwaukee City News focusing on the senseless shooting, killings, hit and run accidents involving personal injuries and similar. I now know which neighborhoods to stay away from. The viewing audience is much wider not just the city of Milwaukee.

Love the update!. Love this app and your weather app, too. I love the ability to get updates on breaking news. Sometimes just enough to read the headline, but always have option to read entire report. Update: still 5 stars, but if I had to share a gripe, it might be the 10 sec ads before each video. I understand its revenue. Would be nice though to have an option to skip after 5 seconds. If I try to catch up on various videos, it gets quite annoying. Thought of one other gripe: getting the audible alert after one is asleep. Very seldom happens. (I think one had to do with an awards show result!) I don't want to silence my phone, but would like to have an option to silence the WISN audible alert per a schedule, like from 11pm until 7am.

Latest update is buggy. I used to enjoy this app a lot, but the latest update is almost unusable. The pop up video ads are annoying enough, but on some pages the same ad pops up over and over again, and you get stuck in an endless loop. As soon as it closes it pops up again, and the only way out is to force close the app.

Annoying app. Have to listen to an ad to get the news, so I google it for free. You give everything but the dew point, the old app had the dew point.

Early morning forecast. I used to ride early and quietly watch your 345 am video weathercast so as not to wake my wife and take the dog out for his first walk. Now you start it with a rather loud auto dealers’ ad at an hour when no one will be out car shopping. Do you think you could just keep it to a printed ad before about 6 am? It would help keep peace at my household.

Only news TV or APP I watch!. I get up to either walk or go for strength training every morning around 5:30 am! I check the news and weather before heading out on WISN! Thanks for being there!!

Great cast/horrible broadcast via iPad. I truly enjoy watching the news on 12news. The cast is awesome (I will miss seeing Sally in the early a.m.!) and the news is mostly unbiased politically, which I definitely appreciate! But the broadcast and repetitive commercials are awful. The broadcast itself is very glitchy and it cuts out for no reason also. A smooth broadcast day is rare. Someone should pay more attention to the streaming broadcasts and make sure they’re cleaned up. It’s the only reason I didn’t give 5 stars. Great news casters, dependable weather reports, and love the traffic helicopter reports! (Matt should get the gravely voice checked by a doctor.)

Thought. Wish there were some Latinos as reporters,.news casters, meteorologist, etc. Some one that says we matter. Get tired of the only soap opera General Hospital being interrupt for breaking news, etc. Never another showing. The newscasters they have are fun to watch and have a good sense of humor, I enjoy them all.

Notifications no longer work. I have had the Channel 12 app for years. I admit sometimes I got a little annoyed at the volume of notifications they sent out, especially if it was something silly like a human interest story that had been airing all week. I guess I got my wish for fewer notifications when they just stopped altogether. I can’t get weather or news. I tried reinstalling the app, nothing. The settings are set to weather, local and national news. Absolutely nothing. I had to download Channel 4’s app to get notifications and now use theirs more often. I can’t figure out what went wrong.

Missing Sally. Although I’m happy for Sally moving on to the next chapter of her life, I will truly miss her. I’ve watched Sally since she started with David Davis and started my family the same time she did. Maybe it is time for me to slow down and enjoy my life too. WISN does have the best meteorologist around.

Overall decent. I prefer WISN for my news station, but I find the app slow to update. The weather is really behind sometimes where I get the video for the day before. Sometimes the audio doesn’t work either. Otherwise, I like having the app. -Just some areas of improvement.

Ads block articles. Been a fan of WISN for over 30 yrs, their app is the only news app I use. Usually a good article content, but the proliferation of ads in the articles is very annoying, especially when the ad interrupts an article, completely eliminating part of the article. An option to temporarily erase the offending ads would be greatly appreciated.

Breaking news. I’m am tired of “Breaking News” when you have been talking about it for days. Your newscast is often repetitive. I always watch channel 12 for news and other things, but please reconsider these things.

Poorly Put Together and Written. I feel this site is filled with half written and inaccurate articles, often with critical information omitted. It seems they wanted to just have a site out there for name only without putting much effort into it. Sorry to feel this disappointed because they do such a good job on live TV.

Love WISN news!. Love watching the news on wisn and the crew is amazing. I like the way they interact with eat other and joke around at times. I don’t like the way they changed the weather on the app. It use to be easier to check up coming weather and definitely miss it being in color!

Very Uplifting. Has a great overall view of the State and Communities it Serves . Great Variety and Uplifting News About people & Communities it serves ❗️Not Politically Correct and Always Bringing Good News To it’s Readers in The Community ✅

I use to enjoy watching channel 12. When news can be bias and speak some truth, instead of just showing the mayhem and the one sided news on political front I will return to watching. Until then I will just watch the weather and shut the tv off!

Imagination. Your coverage of most of the news is one sided and biased. Not so much local but when it comes to the dems and repubs you are most certainly extremely biased. Your job is to truthfully report the news to us. Don’t spin it, don’t ad your commentary just give us the news. Don’t try to push us to feel one way or the other. Just report the news and let us the readers/viewers decide on our own what we should take away from it.

Keeps sending notifications even when off. Even though the only notification I have turned on is Weather, I am constantly getting notifications on other topics, including what they call breaking news. You can’t report the problem to them directly either. It takes you to their webpage where you need to call them or email them. It’s easier if I just uninstall it. The length and continuous bombardment of commercials is ridiculous. Nothing to see here. Time to move on to one of the competitors.

Top Notch!. This is definitely my top pick for my daily news! Only reason for not getting five stars, is that I have noticed that some of your reporters, not to be named, throw the word “a” multiple times within their sentences. Honestly, I don’t even believe it’s a cover for the word “umm”. Once you start hearing it you can’t stop. It’s kind of annoying.

Improving with fewer video ads. I’ve noticed that sometimes there are fewer video ads and ads don’t auto play often now. It used to wake my husband up hen all of a sudden an ad would randomly play. Appreciate not having to watch an entire ad before all news videos now and the ability to skip ads, so I don’t have to watch the same ads over and over. Thank you for heading in the right direction.

Needs to be current!. Would love to see the news updated with some frequency! Especially on weekend. Check news and weather and they are sometimes almost 24 hrs old especially on the week end. That’s not NEWs! It’s old. Newscaster’s personalities are great, but need some work on the issues of a few “talking through their noses”. A little speech therapy would certainly up their game in the industry, especially since their actual presentation is great otherwise. Please teach Eden how to say Wauk-e-sha! It’s not Wauk-sha!

Too many ads. An ad for every story makes me not want to use app! Understand it is a revenue source, but come on. Used to be able to deal with 15 second spots but the 30 seconds is a waste of my time. If I was interested in the products maybe, but car and attorneys-NO

Feed back.. I appreciate getting the news and app. It helps me keep informed what is going on in Wisconsin. I don’t live there but was born there and I miss it so much. Thanks for all your service and support. Charleen

Change to channel 12. I’ve been so impressed with the news coverage and unbiased reporting. Up to date and I can always rely on channel 12 chopper coverage. For anyone not watching channel you need to switch ASAP

Ads and Push Alerts Are an Issue. WISN is generally my preferred source in Milwaukee however using the app is a chore sometimes. Often, stories that come in via notifications aren’t yet available in the app unless you specifically go through the notification. If you see a notification come in while you’re doing something else you can’t finish your task and then head to the app. You have to head to your notifications and access it that way or else you won’t find the story. The app also constantly pauses your music in order to play ads, even when you aren’t trying to view a video. It’s incredibly frustrating that you can’t read news stories and listen to your music at the same time.

News. WISN is my channel I watch on my TV And the app is wonderful keeps u informed on any current news happening and weather

My first choice but.... Channel 12 is my first choice for tv news and the great weather team, and I prefer the app for the weather report. The “but” is for the infuriating interruption of articles by ads which block the end of sentences. This happens often enough that I find myself regularly switching to other local news apps to get the complete story with completed sentences.

Cumbersome app. I wish it wouldn’t be so difficult to get to a story that was worthy of an alert! Music stops - and when I go the the app, the story is not there! Also I really loved the standalone weather app. It used to be a better setup all around. If I have more steps to go through to get to content - especially content that WISN felt was worthy of interruption - then shouldn’t I be able to find it?!!!

Could use editing.. Love the TV station and watch every day. The printed news needs lots of editing. (Missing words, etc) Plus I can’t stand that so many sentences are cut off so that I can never see the ending that should give pertinent information. Also the website uses all my phone WiFi within minutes. Other news sites don’t do that.

Chanel 12. So far it's proves to Be good no technical problems while viewing . Thanks and News coverage is Good! And the weather, so Far! Thanks .Thanks !!! I am very thankful for for Chanel 12 I never new it was so very Good!!! Thank you!!! Keep it up!!!

Good for the most part. The app is fine for the most part. There are just times where I’m looking for a specific article and it’s very difficult to find through this Sarah champ. But other than that it is my preferred news app for local news.

It doesn’t rotate, doesn’t reflect the on-air news video feeds. It doesn’t have very good feed-back set ups. It says it’s being updated, but I think that is just the stories, not the actual app user-ability. And it’s user unfriendly when it comes to forwarding stories to others. Guess that keeps viewership down. It has stories still on it that are over a year old!

Best streaming app for local Milwaukee TV stations. #1 in my book for comprehensive and accurate weather forecast. Sally-#1, she’s been amazingly on top of her game for years. Her impending “retirement“ is not something I’m looking forward to and I hope she not getting pushed out due to female ageism. #2 Broadcast streaming is fine, I hope ABC and WISN will focus more $ into this part of the app as we consumers want to “eat” our news on demand and not shove national or other cities news stories mixed in (it gets confusing) when consumers would like local information. The economy is good. The advertising costs enough, you are cutting salary budgets by reducing tenured staff, there should be the ability to get more beat reporters

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Technical problems. Just say I like the old app, before I did an update. Now when I try to open it closes quickly or mostly it closes when I want to see the weather. Not give a star cause of the problem. Help

Old News. This app isn’t updated enough with current news. News stories on the app can be days, even weeks old.

Too many ads. I am looking for a different app with less ads. Must be no news on the weekends. No alerts or nobody works the news desk on weekends??? No money for labor????

Old stories. Old news stays on site too long, some adds too long. Want current events, not a month old event. Much needed improvements needed NOW.

CC. Needs closed captioning at all times. Thank you.

Don’t like new app.. This app has to many ads that just pop up and they wake my wife when I’m sitting in bed ! Bring back the old one !

Wish there was sports coverage. Some of the articles are cut off with an advertisement.

No longer watching this station. Miss Watching Mark Baden, but tired of the poor reporting of the news. A reporters job is to tell us facts without stupid innuendos.

Was ok until this week. All of a sudden there every time I open the app I am required to view a 5 second video add. No thank you.

Articles are cut off. Why are some articles left incomplete? They just end at a point while the remaining article portion is unavailable. Makes the kind of worthless.

Typical. All legacy corporatist media outlets are left wing garbage narrative pushing cranks who are a stain on society. Other than the weather info this app provides no socially redeeming value.

You want a review?. Would you really post a conservative critique? Many times I want to respond but it’s not encouraged on this site. Some stories are so blatantly one sided it’s rediculous!

Not friendly. 30 second ads before each and every news report can be watched. Really!?!? Returning to the home page after viewing a report fails to return the viewer to the previous position. (It takes the viewer back to the top of the list). News is updated spottily. Other stories stay on the app for weeks. Many more problems. This app needs a LOT of work!

Link. When I click on the link it doesn’t usually open up to what I want to see I don’t want to have to search for the link

Not great. It’s frustrating how all the stories are cut off in the middle. It appears from the ads. I usually have to search for the article on another site to get the full story. :/

Too many ads.. Really annoying

Won’t share stories. The app won’t share the link to the story, just the headline.

Horrible!. What annoys me most about this app is that when I’m in another app, website, etc and an alert pops up but goes away before I can click it, I can’t find the story about the alert on the WISN app. Even if it’s breaking news.

WISN news/ weather forecast. First thing I check out every morning 👍🏼

12 news. Very buggy lately. Can not access most times

News is Good. Pop up ads are very annoying. There are just to many of them now.

WISN APP. Use this app every morning so I know how to dress for the day. Lot of info

Stories. Keep old stories way t-o-o-o long. 2-3 days is more than enough to view! Actually rate this app -10, so bad!!!!!

Good news bad app. I like channel 12 but the app crashes too much

Cidlee. Nice app for news etc

No Sports Tab. Please add a Sports Tab on your main menu! Thanks

Review. I’ve been watching since 1986 when my first child was born, love everybody through the years!

News interrupted by too much advertising!. Get real folks... when I hit news alert or update..... I’m indulated with stupid advertising and other popular nonsense!! When it’s news...I want news! Not what wonderful items are on sale at local stores ect ect! Get it? Hope so😾

Warm and friendly news reports/weather people. They make me smile : )

Review. Love local news and David at 5:30. Sometimes get confused on your app. All around love all!

Feels like local neighbors! Enjoy the outdoors & prepared.. Don’t need everything; you do remember us. .Near home & for short & pointers. Don’t need garbled

Channel 12. Many times my Channel 12 app will not open on my phone. Just keeps buffering.

Horrible viewing. Trying to read a story is impossible. Video is so large on top that the only an inch or so of the text is visible beneath it. Have to wait till the video is done before whole screen text appears.

No radar on weather???. No interactive radar on weather. Video weather short is day old!

Missing words. Your stories have a lot of sentences that are missing the ending. This usually happens when an ad or something like that follows the sentence.

Latest upgrade. Have not been able to use since latest upgrade, I get the wisn screen, and it does not finish loading. Some upgrade???

Ads. I will be scrolling headlines -much of which is click bait and not even local news-and an ad will start playing with sound. What I like: the local actual news and weather blog.

Biased garbage. This "news" has gotten so biased it’s sickening. This coming from some one whose only voted democrat for president since 1984. I deleted it and suggest you look elsewhere if you want to hear facts, not biased opinion pushed as news.

Boring. A lot of the news is repeated. There are stories on the app that has been there for many weeks. It’s not fresh and exciting.

I can read!. I hate having to lose a third of the screen to a video in order to get to read two sentences about something!

30 second ad to watch a 30 second video. No thanks. Good example why people don’t want to watch network TV. Deleted

Fix your morning live stream!. I only watch for the news at 5 am, and it is and has been terrible for years. Freezes for long periods and constantly needs to be refreshed/reloaded.

Old News. Most of “your” news is OLD news and you keep it in your app toooo long. By the time you post new news I’ve gotten it from CNN, Fox, or TV 58. You should change your stories more frequently.

Old news. The headline Breaking News stories have been on for anywhere from one to 3 days.

Old news. Too much old news. Channel 58 better. .

Commercials. All it is is a bunch of commercials before the stories!

Pop up video ads. It’s simple...non stop “pop up” video ads will get you a *1* star review. WTMJ doesn’t have “pop up’s”!!

Buggy Update. Unable to read more than the first two lines of a story. Fortunately the ads are unaffected and that is, after all, what really matters.

Video forecast doesn’t work some of the time. Too often the video forecast doesn’t have any video attached.

Phone scams. I keep getting calls. They say “this is SSI your benefits have been suspended” I also get calls from “ the US Treasury” I lust hang up... can you report about this on the news?!