Local 8 Now

This app would be good if it didn't randomly play ads with blaring sound when opening the app. There are also misleading ads disguised as news stories. It no wonder credibility is an issue for news stations when they aren't up front with their viewers about what is actual news and what is an ad disguised as news to trick the user into clicking on the ad.

I will keep updating my 1 star review until you fix this app. The only sharing options are Bluetooth and nearby, both useless. It has been well over a year since the last time I was able to touch a picture and zoom im on it. I was told a few months ago that it must be a bug and they would look into it. They obviously don't care or don't know how to fix it, maybe it's time to restaff with knowledgeable people.

News alerts don't take you to the alert. Story updates are not showing on the feed even though the headline changed. When you click out of a story it takes you back to the top of the feed. 2/17/21 edit. The app continues to malfunction. It will not open the alerts and rarely just opens so I can't even read the alerts that way. Uninstalled.

I love channel 8 but I have not had a good experience with the news app. Very slow and the tv guide might as well not be on there. It's hard to navigate and pull up certain shows. I would appreciate it if you could fix this. It hasn't always been this way, I used it easily a month or so ago. Thanks.

its terrible !! but now it works fairly well . Now if they would put the 6 am first thing in the morning e mail update page back out like before instead of after noon .

too many notifications. I signed up for just Breaking News and Weather Alerts. but I'm also getting Traffic alerts. not even in my area. plus.. the Breaking News, many times, ... is not "breaking".. it's nothing important. my phone is going off several times a day with these WVLT ALERTS. Annoying.

Some of your notification are annoying. Some of your stuff is not important as urgent info ( possible life influencing ). And many of your traffic and other alterts do have enough/accurate info so the user can correctly interrupt to use ( hints are not sufficient ). Your generic pictures take up unnecessary data. I will probably remove your app if the trifling attitude continues. Accurate and serious approach to news is appreciated. Thank you for reminding me to change things up with this app.

The new format is terrible.. the stories take forever to load and when you're finished reading one and exit, the app takes you to the top of the home page instead of where I left the home page. The good..the format makes it easier to read. That is all.

The latest revisions have ruined this app. Articles load extremely slowly. Pressing the return "button" doesn't take you back to the article chosen but to the beginning every time. I've gone elsewhere for my local news while waiting for an update that may make this app usable again. If not, uninstall is the only option.

Used to be good. Now the story takes forever to load or not at all or just closes. When you go back you have to start from the beginning. Now you cant close the ad in the begining. You have to close the app a few times to even be able to look sf stories. I unistalled

The application used to be great. Now it plays a loud obtrusive ad every time I open it. If this keeps up, it will get uninstalled. I don’t mind seeing advertisements, but blasting me with audio & video from some lame mobile game ad when I open the news app on my phone is not a good way to get me to continue using it.

Awful since update. Stories just close when trying to read them. When you go back to main page, you go back to beginning not where you left off. Very unstable. Font is odd. Spacing is odd. I love WVLT but might have to uninstall if not corrected fast.

Since I updated all I get us out brain ads when I try to go to news or sports only the weather is working properly. I updated because it was stuck on the same news articles from Sept 10 since Sept 10. I liked it before that although it does load a little slow.

It was a good app. Now some geniuses decided to put ads on the news page. You cannot close the ad or get past it. So, guess the rating is aligned with the functionality.. move on... nothing to see with this app..

I agree with latest comments. It not only takes forever to load, but it also randomly and often jumps you a screen that says offline so I have to load large stories several times to finish it.

This app used to be awesome but something has changed and now it takes forever to load anything and instead of going back to the list of new stories it takes you back to the top of the list of stories which is pretty aggravating. It didn't used to do that

I love the AP. I can check on the news and weather in seconds.

Horrible update. Was the best of the Knoxville stations before update. Now it's frustrating to use . Slow , stories close ,goes all the way back to top after reading a story......very buggy

This app needs a lot of work. It never loads when you click on an alert. All it shows is a Biden ad that do not want to see and it keeps showing it over and over. I think you digital marketing company needs a lot of work. Targeting wring people.

Keeps closing when I try to watch live stream. Have tried uninstall and reinstall without success. I really like WVLT, but I guess I will have to do without.

Make this app great again! The loud video in weather should have a play button, not play automatically. It makes it impossible to check the app with that racket.

When an app takes over you phone to play an ad, and you can't close it or the app, then it is time to uninstall it. Also takes forever to load any article.

This app has gone down the poophole it doesn't load and if it does it drops the article back to main page. Disappointing,like the live reporting it lacks a lot will use another app for news😔😔

Just updated the app and now when I click to see the local news stories all it does is pop up a list of ads. It needs to be fixed!

Was good but now it's unusable. Takes forever to open an article and then it starts reloading the article once it's open. Now it opens to a damn Facebook ad. Hell no!

The weather within this app is not good.before in this app you could see the day broken down by hours. Now it doesn't even show you the day unless you go to the weekly forecast.If you want news and weather, you shouldn't have to get 2 separate apps

Now has ads that appear with sound once the app is opened. Very distracting. Not worth the trouble.