WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids News App Reviews

It sometimes feels good to eat crow. Way to step your game with this most recent update. Nice new look, 3 days in now and still running strong with no force closes.

Better than last version. There are more ads but they are not the same annoying one ad that comes up before you can get to the actual news. It is touchy though and the ads grow/shrink which throws off scrolling. I would be happy to pay for an ad free version. I just want news. Not ads. I can get ads by arching tv. Mlives ads are not as annoying.

Trying to get to the news and weather around all the advertising was like being a mouse in a maze trying to find the cheese.

I have been trying all day to sign up for school closing text alerts which I was getting before but failed to get today. Nothing is working. Erg!!!

Whats up Wood TV? Why are you pushing other apps on the App Store? I am in the Alert section and bang I am taken to the App Store. Have to fix this. Roll your release back

The ads work fine but the whole thing freezes when the ads are over and youre trying to watch the live stream. Useless.

The weather info (forecast, current temp) wont update when you open the app. You have to force quit every time to have any hope of seeing accurate indications of current conditions. The previous version frequently showed daily forecasts that were vastly different from what was indicated on the tv broadcast. So unreliable it is virtually worthless to me.

I get having an occasional ad somewhere on the site but the forced full-screen auto ad is frankly annoying.

The current update has thrown ads in your face every time you open it. Its both a pain and makes me want to stop using the app and removing it from all my devices and never looking back! This is the second update thats thrown ads in your face and they are OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD... One more chance. If it continues no more woodtv for me. The local competitors provide a fine app without harassing advertisements!

Still seems very desperate and low budget. Forced opening ads? The company that bought this network sold it out.

This app is garbage. I keep it for school closings & thats about the only reason. Its so slow to load (when it DOES load!!), half the time it just crashes & the ad at the beginning has seriously made me despise Todd Wenzel & Stanley Steamer!! Videos are hit & miss, although the ad at beginning of video plays just fine! It would be nice to be able to at least read the comments without having to exit out of the app & go online to do so, the comment section on Wood is some seriously great entertainment! Id like to be able to read those within the junk app!! Fix this stuff! If the grammar & punctuation is any indication, then I can see why this seems to be so difficult for the developers to get right!

App crashes when you select the weather button at the bottom of the main screen!! I had to load the weather app just to get the weather to see if it was going to rain tonight (Monday 18-May-15). Do not need to see an ad for an auto dealer (or some other ad) before I even see the content. What other TV stations puts you through that? Fire your app writers & start over!! Would shore a zero if I could.

App crashes when the weather icon is tapped. Please fix.

App is decent overall but selecting weather in the newest update crashes/closes the app. Please fix ASAP! Weather is crucial.

New version updated last week. App has been crashing quite a bit; especially with weather

I can see how this app would be useful, but some things often get in the way of a satisfactory experience. A lot of the time, it is the articles that are so poorly proof-read that detracts from what the reader is trying to obtain information about. Then, as you wonder WHO wrote the article, and why they spelled something so wrong, banners and gigantic ads infest even the home screen, not to mention every aspect of the app besides. I will say, though, that reading the news on this app is much easier and more organized than trying to read the desktop site on a mobile device. My hat off to you there...did he just spell airport A-I-R-P-R-T-O?!? ***Facepalm***

Ads,Ads & more Ads. A video Ad starts when you open the app. Thankfully you can close it before it starts rolling. Then there is the audio Ad that just plays with no way to stop it unless you turn your phone to mute. Then there are banner Ads that make the news feed jump around making it very difficult to catch a story to open it. Enough already. It is usually so frustrating to read the stories I end up giving it up and closing it. Please fix this unnecessarily annoying app and just let us read our local news.

I hate the update! Now the news doesnt show on the home page, just stupid ads. And it also doesnt show the news when I click on news for Grand Rapids or Kent county. I already have a weather app, so not really needing this glorified weather app as well. Fix it!

This is a terrible app. It is mainly all ads. It is useless.

Crashes and doesnt open on most attempts.