Local 3 News 4+

I have improved on their weather app. But as for the rest of it I am visually impaired and their main app is not very user-friendly for those of us who need voiceover and other screen Raiders. And it is not very easy to find stories in general much less what you want to read about.

My family has been a loyal WRCB-TV family for many years. And like others, we’ve rolled with times and changes. One expects a larger company to buyout multiple smaller companies and rebranding to be done. Even changing a name to something “simpler for customers” is totally understandable. However to change a design and layout so much so, that the news one would normally see isn’t even there is going one step too far. To not include some of the national and world news makes absolutely no sense, in that it directly effects our state and therefore our city. A pebble thrown into a pound causes ripples, in-turn the entire pond is somehow affected. Our city is a ripple that isn’t being acknowledged on this new rebranded app.

For that matter, local news is hardly present as is or rarely updates. If you have to swipe up, down, left, and right just to simply get a story that you find is actually a day old. It doesn’t really give you a reason to want to go further. The weather portion, while I can say is definitely better in that it’s more detailed, it often glitches and shuts down the app when you try to see the 7 day forecast. I know much time and effort were probably put into this update, but unfortunately the goal was missed. Wish you all the best, but I guess it’s time this family does some rebranding of it’s own and finds another news station with an app that actually gives us the news.

The app is just…not good. But even that could be overlooked if it weren’t for the terrible news coverage. Just a handful of news articles posted per day, and those are filled with typos, grammatical errors, or even complete omission of words, which makes the articles difficult to read. I’m no expert, and I didn’t go to journalism school, but you would think all these obviously recent grads they have hired, they would know how to properly write a news story. Sad. Uninstalled.