WITN News 12+

WITN is the slightly big fish is a very small pond in eastern NC television news, the best news station by default. But this app…ugh! Clunky and annoying. Video ads pop up when you try and check headlines and you have to completely close the app to shut them down. Cumbersome, amateurish. The app used to be mediocre. They redesigned it, making me yearn for the good old days of mediocrity. As bad as WNCT is as a news outlet, U
I think I’m going to give their app a test drive just to be rid of the thing.

Good Morning, we just moved here from Lincoln County, NC and so disappointed in this app. When we first started looking in the area, I didn’t even think about the news networks as a critical part of the area I had in consideration, I should have. When opening your App. it should take you to the headlines of the day!? I don’t want or need to jump through hoops to find out what’s going on and WHERE this is happening, again, NEW TO THE AREA(!), I haven’t lived here all my life, I have driven around hundreds of miles so I’m adventuring out but GPS can only do so much for me. I rely on learning the area from news reports and READING about the area online.
When I do watch the news, I have chosen WITN to be the channel I watch because I loved news channel 36 in Charlotte and was hoping you would be about the same. The folks on the TV are very personable, I feel like they are just reading a script, it’s very different and I don’t like it. I think I’ll try a different one for awhile, at least a different APP. to see if any are easier to navigate.
Thank you for your time.

Like many other reviewers have noted, this app has gone downhill. Ads are a large part of my frustration, I understand they’re part if what keeps the app afloat, but there has to be a line. If I click a notification of a news briefing, I should be taken directly to that briefing. I should not have to sit there while a full page ad plays until the timer ends, then have to search through all of the news stories to find the one that should have been directly linked. I could handle ads on the article page, but having to wait only to then have to find the story myself, ridiculous. The separate app for weather is also annoying, but I could get over it. The point of the app is to make it easier for people who aren’t able to watch the scheduled broadcasts, but it feels like the app is designed with a focus on being most beneficial towards their advertisers, not the people using the app.