WTAE- Pittsburgh Action News 4 5.7.58

Reviews

3 ★, on 2020-03-31
First, the problem: the alerts/notifications. STOP IT with the useless pictures. There's just enough headline to be vague, and an utterly USELESS picture/graphic that cuts off what may or may not be useful info. WE DON'T NEED A PICTURE OF SOMEONE AT A MICROPHONE!!! Please, please get RID of the pics with the alerts. Otherwise, there are reasons this is the only local news app I have - and that's because it's relevant without being overbearing, and it's easy to navigate.

1 ★, on 2020-08-06
Terrible app. No ability to customize alerts. Bombarded with "Breaking news" all day long for every single story, most of which are not even newsworthy. What's worse, the app experience is identical to watching the news. Every "breaking news" story is nothing more than the fluffy introductory blurb that an anchor would read on a newscast, followed by the video. I downloaded the app so I could quickly scan each story. If I wanted to actually "watch" the news, I would turn on the TV. Uninstalling

1 ★, on 2019-08-10
It was 5:30 pm and I was looking for updated information on the Squirrel Hill Tunnel closing and accident. I know that WTAE has a live broadcast of the news at this time. But instead of getting the evening news, I get news from noon with reports that claim and marked as live. There should be time stamps on these older versions of the news so watchers know they're not getting up to date information. Deleting this app as irrelevant.

1 ★, on 2019-07-23
WTAE is my favorite Pittsburgh news, but this app was terrible. It would play for a few seconds to a minute - than the screen would go blank and say "something went wrong." Did this every time I tried to us it. Deleted it. ☹️

4 ★, on 2020-03-28
It's the same amount of ads as any other news station but it's the same thing over and over again get your sales department to give people breaks and they can advertise their business. It tends to disconnect during peak hours also. That all said it's the best news cast out there!

1 ★, on 2020-06-03
This is a joke of a news app in 2020. No organization, you're forced to scroll past random articles that you don't care about. Somehow very little Pittsburgh news articles and mostly clickbait-like "national" news articles that linger for days and weeks. Breaking news is under reported on here and often consists of silly "breaking news" alerts like "Ben Roethlisberger needs wrist surgery". Notifications have huge pictures so you can't read the headlines. I downloaded Trib Live instead.