Local 3 News for Android

Lack of live streaming hurts this app a lot.

Since the update it is completely inaccessible to those of us who use accessibility features such as dynamic text and voiceover. Therefore, making it completely unusableTo the blind. I am very disappointed by this.

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.

This new app is awful. The old one was easy to navigate, had tons of news articles, wasn’t covered in ads, and the livestream actually worked!!! It’s a pretty safe bet now that when I try to watch the livestream of the news, I’ll just get a commercial, and then a black screen with no sound. I really missed Channel 3 news before the rebranding to “Local 3”.

Used to be so much better when it was WRCB. With the new rebrand this app has become borderline unusable. I’m wondering if this updated app was actually made by a child. It’s that bad.