WESH 2 News and Weather 5.7.62

Reviews

3 ★, on 2021-10-09
It's OK. I don't use it for the weather, just for local news alerts. But I never open the app. It's no more than a stripped-down web browser for the WESH website, and almost every news article has a video which always plays an ad that can't be silenced w/o muting the whole phone. So instead I go to their site in a good web browser (Brave) that has both built-in ad blocking and autoplay for embedded videos & audio disabled, and then find the article corresponding to the alert to read it there.

3 ★, on 2020-06-15
This app used to work. I've used it for the last couple years. Now, however, it's gone downhill. Way too many ads and less functionality. Example: harder to stream even from good wifi, very long weather radar loop. I'm also not getting the alerts for weather EVEN AFTER turning them on in the app settings. Not the worst app, but close.

2 ★, on 2022-10-18
As much as I love being up to date on weather and such, the amount of advertising when trying to navigate the app, watch anything, or even read articles is absurd. It makes it difficult to read anything without getting frustrated. Additionally, as a news source, I don't understand why you are relying so heavily on advertisment revenue. It's so out of hand I don't even want to watch the reports that interest me because of ads alone. Not to mention the ads before hurricane reporting? Really? Shame

1 ★, on 2019-05-14
This app was good before Hearst took it over and has been going downhill for years now. The news alerts are usually useless sensationalized clickbait. I use it mainly for the weather, and now the radar loop is 6 HOURS long (normally 1 hour)! By the time the radar plays through it's long 40 second loop my phone screen shuts off and I miss it. I emailed them to fix and never even received a reply one way or the other. I'm done now. Uninstalling now for competing FOX35 Orlando app...

5 ★, on 2023-12-17
Been watching since I was a kid. Best news station in Florida!!

2 ★, on 2020-04-18
Intrusive ads. Nice app, but ads galore. Can't mute the volume, or skip after a few seconds. Whatever happened to the in-app notification sound, that used to be available? Now, it's the system default. I really liked the highly identifiable WESH mnemonic.