Reviews of ABC Action News Tampa Bay
List of user reviews and ratings for ABC Action News Tampa Bay
Total ratings
3.88
(Rating count:
1,728)Review summary
Users appreciate the app's reliable news content and accessible local coverage, especially for weather alerts, without requiring cable subscriptions. However, multiple recurring issues greatly reduce usability: videos frequently freeze or fail to play, notifications do not link properly to stories, and intrusive advertisements disrupt the experience. Many users report crashes and problems with live streaming functionality. The app's interface also resets inconveniently when rotating the device, lowering user satisfaction. These technical and usability drawbacks overshadow the positive aspects of the news content and team. Pros
- Provides access to local Tampa Bay news, weather, and breaking news alerts conveniently on mobile.
- The news content, including weather coverage and alerts, is considered impressive and valuable, especially during significant events.
- The news team and anchors are appreciated by users, contributing to user loyalty.
- No specific cable subscription needed to access news articles, making it accessible to many users.
Cons
- App is plagued by technical issues such as videos freezing, not playing properly, and crashing when clicking articles or videos.
- Notifications often fail to link directly to the related story, causing user frustration.
- Excessive and lengthy advertisements interrupt user experience, with no option to remove ads due to discontinuation of paid version.
- App frequently refreshes or reloads improperly, especially when switching between portrait and landscape modes, leading to loss of video or reading position.
- The streaming live news feature often does not work, displaying messages like "we'll be right back" and failing to play content.
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
2.10
All time rating average:
3.88
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2024-10-11 |  | | With no power or internet service in a hurricane and precious limited cell phone minutes & battery juice, the last thing I need when clicking on a weather forecast video is an extended series of ads and station promos before the actual forecast. Love the weather team, but hate the app. Not cool, guys. |
| 2024-05-23 |  | | What is wrong with your phone app for Android phones? It needs to be rewritten. Notification links don't work, stories don't load, if you try to view a story horizontally (like full screen) the story trys to start over and never loads. I am a faithful follower of your new cast. Your TV app for both Roku and Firestick work great. Please fix the phone App. |
| 2023-05-22 |  | | You do NOT have to have a specific cable subcription to view the articles within this app. I've been watching action news for 30 plus years so its comforting knowing i can access at my fingertip & have the top stories, hourly weather & breaking news alerts. 🤙🤙 |
| 2023-02-24 |  | | Notifications push out news headlines, but links never take you to those particular stories. Notifications also tell you if an interesting news break is happening on live stream, but the live stream has never worked for me a single time. Always says we'll be right back, never plays. Once in a while I'll get a commercial but no streaming news. Even when I clicked a notification shortly after receiving it, so I know I couldn't have completely missed it yet. |
| 2022-11-24 |  | | Sorry but you discontinued the Pay Version for No Ads, Now that's all it's ALL ADS. I record the News at Home to fast forward through the Ads. I'm certainly not going to watch Ads on my Phone. Bring back the Paid Version and I'll be back. |
| 2022-05-05 |  | | This app has too many issues. It's difficult to expand the screen to make it full screen. A changing the phone from portrait to landscape causes the whole page to refresh and then you lose the video that's playing. Way too cumbersome to be effective. |
| 2022-04-29 |  | | When I get notifications for stories, I click the notification assuming it will take me to that story. It doesn't. What is the point of sending notifications if they don't even link to the story? This has been going on for awhile... |
| 2021-05-17 |  | | This app is the worst and a annoyance more than anything else. It notifies you of news but when you tap on it it takes you to the site and you have to look for it among other posts they have made that day. It's always been like this and I waited over a year for them to fix it but nope they are ok with it being the annoying app that it is |
| 2021-01-24 |  | | I always have problems watching their videos. either they don't run or they froze. Still with the same problems trying to see news and this app keeps freezing. Years with the same problem. |
| 2020-12-07 |  | | I dont know what got done to this app but the last couple of months, whenever I want to catch the news or replay the news it shows 30 seconds of news and either goes to nonstop Action News commercials or freezes up. It's been uninstalled. Stinks because I refer my trucker friends to the app for the weather when they have a load to Florida, I will refer them to weather.gov from here on out |
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