WMTW News 8 - Portland, Maine App Reviews

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App is good for 3 stars but could be a five star with less ads!. Love to watch the news on TV when I can. I do like the breaking news alerts on my cell when I don’t have the News channel on at the time. However the app is an excellent app to read but if you want to watch a video you have to watch like a 30 sec. ad for each and every video and most story’s are just a bit longer then the ad itself. Do like one ad for every 3 video stories or even better like 5 stories and make the app a 5 star!

Easy way to get the days headlines. I appreciate the first half or so of this news app. however most of the second half repeats for a number of days. Some of the stories have been on there over a year! What’s up with that? Lorry

Love WMTW8. Love have my news at my fingertips. I love getting news and weather alerts keeping me updated on what’s going on

Embarrassing Ads. They need to filter their ads AND start them muted. And you need to turn off your volume before you open the app in public spaces. I clicked on a headline from my lock screen only to had the word "Diarrhea?!" fill the otherwise silent floor of my office. And withing earshot, my director and VP. Luckily with a good sense of humor. But not everyone will be able to have all eyes on them from their phone yelling something inappropriate unexpectedly. It was worse than when Pandora on my TV started showing dildo ads while my mother-in-law was over.

Not too big, not too small... just right!. Appreciate having the alerts - and the volume works well for me. Key items, I don’t miss something important and I’m not bogged down by more info than I want to see. My choice if I want to read the article or just the headline.

Advertisements Get in the Way. Like everything about Channel 8- it’s our ‘go-to’ station so I wanted to use this app exclusively for news. I find that the blocks used for advertising cut off sentences describing the article however, and I’ve lost information. There is no transition to the next paragraph located under the advertisement. This is very annoying as I don’t know how important that info could have been. Not sure if it’s the format, or something I could tweak on my iPhone, but I dislike having to access PPH to get the complete version of the story. Fix it please?

Back button goes away. I’m editing my review from 5 stars to 3. After watching videos, the back button goes away and you have to close out of the app and go back in. It’s annoying. When it’s fixed I’ll edit again and bring it back up but not until this little annoyance is gone. Otherwise, this is the station I refer to first every single time I watch the news. Awesome app, but needs a little work.

Up to date and personal. Keep me in the know without all the political spin. Just straight news and feel good stories, weather and all the things I need for my day

App freezes on some articles. When using, the app freezes up and locks on an article or is blank and won’t open a news event. Have to open and close app numerous times and even then sometimes just give up for the day.

WMTW app. Really enjoy being able to look up to see the weather and get the news. Please keep up the good work and keeping everyone up to date.

alerts. I feel that the app allows me to know when news or weather is affecting Maine, and I would have given 5 stars however alerts sometimes show on the locked screen but I can not find the story details when I go to the app. The problem seems to be a time lag and most alerts eventually appear among the line items on the app but some never do so.

Some special interest articles linger too long.. I have been viewing this news app for over a year now and I do like reading the news every day on the site. My biggest pet peeve is some of the special interest articles are kept on the site for months. And also when the news is posted and the story is still developing, the site will say about updating it as they receive more information-many times it never occurs. Frustrating in both instances...

Ads distract from content. I like the app and it works well but the large ads distract from the real content. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between an article and an ad and it’s frustrating. If the ads are not made smaller I may delete.

WAY too much video / ads!. Great content, nice variety, but 90 percent is video and advertising. Not good! Did you guys ever think that your consumers are on a bus / train / public space where others don’t want to be disturbed? And perhaps we just want to READ an article since we might not have earphones??!! No, probably not - because all you care about is ad dollars and not your consumer. #advertisingisrape

Where’s the weather video cast?. In older version of the app users could quickly find the videos cast. Now it’s either deeply hidden or not there at all. Way to make your app experience exactly like a television experience where your audience has to endure all the content they don’t care about so they can get to the stuff they do care about. I cut the cord in cable tv 3 years ago. Now I’m cutting the cord on this app and wmtw completely.

App Notifications No Longer Working. WMTW 8 is our favorite local news station and when I first downloaded the app about 3 years ago, I would get the news updates with the WMTW “theme” song, however, that hasn’t happened for a long time. All the notifications are on according to the app info. I still use the app several times a day. Thanks for all you do! Jennie L. Cote

A Ok. Over all the air prefer ends quickly and nicely. But when accessing the live streaming of the news that’s where it gets very annoying. Do not like when ads pop up immediately when trying to access the live newsfeed, the return to full screen button does not always work and it closes the live news and puts those stupid ads. You miss part of the news forever how many seconds it takes to return to the news.

Lot better than others. I see. Works smoothly and is way better than the few other tv channel apps I have used

My Go To Source. I go here for weather as you can get it at the top of the hour and 10 minutes in ; the app is good for weather and tracking radar and they are very accurate; I go here for news and the newscasters are friendly but professional while speaking to the audience and with each other and have managed even speaking from home when needed in these Covid times JE

Good afternoon. I am this date deleting your web site from all my iPad & iPhone. I am tired of being commercialized to death when attempting to read most stories on your site. I don’t have to be deluged by commercials on Fox & most sites such as Reuters. I also dislike being taken over by your demand program. Goodby.

WMTW App. I like to check the weather before letting the kids out of the house to go to the bus stop for school. I just have a few things that should be updated. The first thing I find very difficult is trying to find specific articles that you are looking to read. I have also came across several articles that are old. Some of the articles are several months old and not to mention years old. You really need to check out your website and see for your self

Good app but no way to turn off sound of ads. This is my go to app for local news and weather. It’s great but I just wish there was a way to mute the ads! Please add captions and give the option to turn off the sound, please:-)

Needs a little tweak. This app would be better if you didn’t have to scroll to read the weather. Trying to scroll up to read can be difficult and you have to do it just right.

My go-to news app. Love the updates on breaking news, and the variety of other news. Also love the weather radar within the app.

Weather Widget Would Be Great. Nice app all around, but would love to see a weather widget. Direct access from the main phone screen would be awesome instead of having to click through.

Problem with ads overtaking newscast. I really liked this App for watching newscasts on my iPhone however within the past several weeks something has happened where Ads will all of a sudden start playing on top of the morning newscast while the newscast audio is still playing in the background. Once this happens I can no longer get the newscast video back. I hope this can be fixed or I will have to try another station.

Lebanon. We can’t depend on the weather report on channel 8 because the weather report as well as other reports always stop at Sanford. Channel 9 in NH is more of a accurate report pertaining to our area. I do like the team very much but like I said most of the news is for upper Maine.

Mostly good. I really appreciate being able to see the weather forecast video whenever it’s convenient for me. I also check in on the live feed when storms are brewing. Like others have said, I just wish there weren’t so many ads. I have to plan ahead to make sure I can get through the ads before the live forecast. It does seem like the number of ads at start up has gotten better and I appreciate being able to skip an ad, so thank you for that.

Not bad for the most part. Getting the weather forecast on demand is helpful. However any push notification I get I have to wait usually 15 minutes or more before the story actually shows up on the app to read. Also the content as you scroll down often times is old like months and months old so whomever is in charge of updating everything needs to spend more time keeping everything up to date. I usually have to go to the website to see more recent stuff which defeats the purpose of having the app.

Not bad. Could be better.. I really like this app. But there seems to be an issue at times with the radar map refresh rate. Sometimes it loads very fast an other times not at all. I remember when using the radar and hitting the play button the map would go back maybe an hour or two. But it’s going back as far as 6 hours or so. This is to much. Why does it go back so far in time. An hour back is just fine. Is there a way to fix this. I use this app a lot. An waiting for the map to catch up from a six hour loop is a pain In The but and a waste of time. please fix. Thanks.

News app 8. I’m happy you have this. I’ve called in a few times to say the watch now red band wasn’t there. Someone should open the app on their phone at 4 to check if it’s working right. Another weird thing is when I get the message we will be right back, as I’m waiting and nothing is happening, I’ll hit the double arrow fast forward button, and it comes up a little bit into the report. Definitely have someone monitor the output and document it.

Best News and Weather App. I get up to the minute News and Weather alerts when anything is happening in my local area and nationally.. I can always depend on this app. Thank you!

Good for headlines. I like that news 8 sends me important info when it comes up but doesn’t bombard me with notifications all the time. Once in the app it works well enough but there are too many ads and too many steps to get to what you are looking for. Nevertheless, this is my only news app for Maine and I am overall quite happy with it.

WMTW channel 8 news. Needs work. Cannot get into app. Just keeps spinning & spinning & won’t open. Please fox this for me so I can watch it again I’m having trouble with my WMTW app, It won’t open, just keeps spinning & spinning It’s done this before & you fixed it I would appreciate it if you could fix it again. Ty

My favorite local news app. I gave them a 5 but it seemed to rate each star when I entered so may be a glitch with the review process. Anyway easy to use and very up to date with news, weather and alerts! Like other reviewers I too think the ads are a nuisance.

Best Local News App. Best news app for local news and weather. Always on top of the latest up to the minute news! Very dependable..

Sound issues. I love that I can get home from work at 1am and watch the full broadcast, but I like to steam it to my Apple TV. Lately, whenever I try to stream it from my phone to my TV, the sound is totally messed up. It sounds like everyone is under water. After dealing with a computer screen all night, I like to watch tv on my tv, but the app update isn’t helping.

Unbalanced News Reporting. To whom it may concern. I have been a long time subscriber and I noticed that you love to report mostly all negative things of our president and hardly positive. This country is better now than ever before so let’s start advertising that and be Happy you live here in the USA 🇺🇸. Can you try?

I sometimes have a problem getting it but I don’t believe it is your feed but rather the. location The gov said when elected that she was going improve the broadband statewide,!however doubt Ill see it my lifetime! Fact is that SHE &CMP are more interested in building the corridor that will do nothing for Maine residents but will reduce the electricity costs in Mass!! And destroy our wildlife & the gorgeous scenery of our forests & waters!!

Ok but if you’re not going to sell..... If you’re not going to sell sponsored content then get rid of it! It’s taking up space that could be used for other stories instead of the same ones that have been there for a year!

Stories. The ads that you have covers important part of the stories and actual news that you are sharing. I would suggest that you put your ads in between paragraphs instead of covering the article and important information.

Ads giving off bells and sounds. I’m deleting the app. I liked it for local news but now certain game ads give off shrill whistles and sounds. Jumped me the first time it happened. And it doesn’t turn off until the app is closed. News isn’t worth the annoyance. Bye.

Pretty good.. Not a bad local news app. But wished it would be updated more often. The on demand news cast is good but is only on when the news cast is on. The notifications are very good with news and especially weather.

Stories not loading properly. I love the updates. My issue with the app comes when I hot the banner, because I’m interested in the story and the story either doesn’t load or the app shuts down. My other issue is that if one of the two scenarios happens I can NOT just open the app and have the story right there. I have to go hunting for it and sometimes I find it but often I don’t see it anywhere.

Great!. The only thing I don't like is that sometimes I get a breaking news alert I click on it and it brings me to the old article about the same story. I then have to close out of the app and reopen to get the update.

Video doesn't match story. When I click on a news story to read there is usually an accompanying video. I'd say about 50% of the time the video story does not have anything to do with the print news story. I don't know why you do this. I'd rather just read the news story if that happens. It's actually quite annoying because one thinks there's accompanying video. Please stop doing this.

I love this app!. Before I moved to Maine 5 years ago, I downloaded the WMTW app so I could get a feel for the state where I planned to relocate. At that time, I found the app cumbersome to navigate & had very little information. However, now I love this app. It’s beautifully redesigned & has so many areas of information. Keep up the good work! WMTW is my news team for all things Maine. You guys rock!!

App. I use this app every day. Love the video forecast it’s short and to the point. I don’t like how the ads pop up when I haven’t even touched them but it’s gotten better. Your stories at the bottom stay on too long. The ones below entertainment (which I like by the way). Overall a good way to get my news in the morning

Very clumsy site. Adds are far too intrusive Non-news items stay forever. Site is difficult to navigate I do appreciate the ease of checking the temperature.

WMTW app is awesome!. Love the quick notifications ... love knowing about breaking news when it is happening! ...and knowing the weather at my fingertips. Great job! ...oh yeah, can’t forget about the school closing notifications too!

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Enough add already!. If you add any more ads there won’t be any news left. Progressively getting more and mor ads to the point I don’t bother using the app anymore. Supposed to be a news app not advertisement app!

Great app. This is easy to navigate, relevant, and timely

Weather forecasting. Despite your incessant warnings and blaring tv screeching, and despite our prepping our home, barn & property for storm... we didn’t even get a puddle of water. I didn’t water my gardens and property for days in expectation of intense rainfall. We got mist and a shower. So darn annoying to prep and take precaution to be duped by your forecast. You should apologize.

Best local news app. By far the best app for local news I’ve tried others and find this is the best

To frustrating to use. Pop ups are frustrating even if you avoid touching the ad. This was my go to news app I have moved on to a competitor.

News. News is not fresh enough. Older news. I like roger for the weather. He is good.

Ads. The advertising cuts off part of the news article. Very frustrating when you are trying to get the whole story.

Update. This site doesn’t seem to be updated with current news in a timely fashion.

Too politically biased. It’s difficult to read when all the political stories are so one sided. They should be fair and balanced and I don’t see that

Annoying. Can’t tolerate cutting off end of article for block advertisement.

Works great. This app works great. Good current news update. I like it.

Advertizing Cuts Off Stories. You are left hanging as advertizing leaves you hanging mid story . Truly annoying . Don’t download to avoid frustration.

No IOS Apple Tv access to WMTW.. It’s a shame I have to get my local news from Boston because no one in northern New England offers. Local news on AppleTV. Hard to understand. And misleading.

Weather forecasts great. WMTW weather forecasts are very informative for the entire state. Much appreciated.

Constant zoom animations are annoying and a waste. App is OK for the most part, but the constant zooming in and out of content, from tapping through menus, scrolling, ... is annoying as all get out. Needs a preference to turn that off.

Audio. Can you please fix your app so that if my phone is on silent, it doesn't automatically play audio at full blast when I click on an article?

Ok. I like getting notifications when a news/weather story hits but once I get to the site, it’s very clunky and I’m forced to watch an ad before getting any information. Not worth the time.

New wmtw app. Don’t like the new app at all!! I like the weather separate from the news. Not user friendly.

News. Love getting Maine news while in Florida .WMTW news is easiest to read and up to date.

Disappointing. Get a flash update and click on link only to find no story on app. Very little local news and no important national news.

PAGE FREEZES DUE TO. Page freezes due to annoying video commercials and videos whether you want to watch them or not. The WMTW App that was removed was far more user friendly.

AP is fair.. Overall the AP runs well and I like the overall design and content. Biggest criticism is the commercials that run before I watch any videos. 2/3 the time I change my mind and don’t watch the video.

So many Ads it’s useless. Every time you try to see a story a ad pops up. If you tap on a notification an ad pops up making it almost useless.

Unable to watch video if phone turns clockwise. When watching video the application will not orient correctly when turned clockwise. Video orientation is only correct when turned counter-clockwise to landscape or left in portrait orientation. When orientation is adjusted to landscape via a clockwise rotation the resulting video is upside down.

Not up to date. Find that news stories are on site too long. Especially on weekends. Not always current

Good app. Nice to have weather link right up top. Well designed.

Good for the most part. I strongly object to the SOUND of whatever commercial you play before any news item I may want to read. It jars me each time it plays.

Problems with ads. The ads often block part of the news story

Don’t Bother Downloading. I can say this app consistently underperforms. Sadly the ads run with no problem but when you want to watch the content, another ad will start or it just stops.

Good App. Excellent app and I find it up to date with the latest local news ( which I want ) plus the national and international news ... weather is important to me and it’s alway been on target !

Stops working. App stops working. Just keeps trying to download. I’ve deleted it and reloaded then after a while it happens again. Pain

Raiding channel 8 news. Weather it’s the weather or the current events I am checking my app on my phone quite often for channel 8 news

Keep up the good work. My fave news app. Weather is usually spot on without frills.

Crew is great. Free app? Don’t make me close your app due to adds. Charge a buck and have no adds so it is on demand as we need or want it. Best crew across the board which makes me still watch for now.

Sometimes better than.... WGME

Weird app. I can’t read the whole news story of anything. It gets cut off mid-sentence, and the rest of it is no where to be found.

Quick & Concise News. Nice platform convenient read.

Just ads. Downloaded this app today. Tried to check weather but just saw your “tech tips” segment followed by 8 ads. No weather report, wish I could give zero stars.

JoeBear. Like this app. It really works n is user friendly. Like bein able to watch/listen to the news anytime. Scrubbing also works n app opens in horizontal or vertically. Good job WMTW.

SO many ads!. Channel six doesn’t have as reliable site/app, but I use it often because to watch anything on WMTW channel 8 shows me between three and seven ads.

Best Local News App. This is how I get my local news these days.

Iffy. When it works, it’s great. Often I just get a black screen.

Weather. Sometimes I can’t view the weather report video, but there is no written forecast.

Ads distract from content. I like the app and it works well but the large ads distract from the real content. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between an article and an ad and it’s frustrating. If the ads are not made smaller I may delete.

WMTW Review. Great news station! On time, every time!

Could be better-. I don’t like that I can’t read the whole story- I understand the reason for ads but I’d like to see the whole article

Frustrating. When watching pre recorded show, any interruption such as text, call... does not pause program. It causes me to. Start from the beginning. So. Frustrating.

Awesome. After moving to Florida from Maine 13 years ago, I count on WMTW to be kept up to date on news and events that are happening in my hometown.

Porn ads. I like your news coverage but ads with very questionable pics appear and block out your content! Please fix pronto

Ads, ads, ads. I’m sorry, but it’s just not worth waiting through a 30-second ad just to see a major story, then suffer through another ad for the next story.