# NBC 10 WJAR News

> Providence News & Weather

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1022872963](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1022872963)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1022872963`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (359 ratings)
- **Version:** 10.33.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2015-08-03
- **Size:** 149 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nbc-10-wjar-news/id1022872963)
- **Website:** [http://sbgi.net](http://sbgi.net/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://sbgi.net/privacy-policy/](https://sbgi.net/privacy-policy/)

## Description

Stay informed with the **NBC 10 WJAR News** app, delivering breaking local news, national headlines, live streaming newscasts, and video coverage from Providence, Rhode Island, and surrounding communities.

Get accurate hourly and daily weather forecasts, live radar, traffic updates, road conditions, and instant breaking-news notifications. Follow local politics, sports, community stories, and events across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, including Newport, Woonsocket, Narragansett, New Bedford, Attleboro, and Taunton. Enjoy a personalized news experience wherever you are.

## Rankings

- #82,890 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviewers repeatedly mention strong content access for local news and weather with notifications, but consistently complain about heavy advertising, missing/broken dark mode, no iPad landscape support, frequent video/audio playback problems, and stability issues (crashes/non-loading). The top asks are ad reduction, proper dark mode, iPad landscape support, reliable media playback, and overall app stability.

### Pros

- Provides quick access to local news updates.
- All recent stories and weather are accessible in the app.
- Notifications keep you updated on breaking news and weather.

### Cons

- Ads are extremely heavy and intrusive, often appearing as news or interrupting videos.
- No dark mode exists or it is broken on many devices, making reading difficult.
- Lack of landscape mode on iPad (and related UI issues for iPad users).
- Video playback issues and ads interrupting videos; audio can stop unexpectedly.
- App reliability problems like the app not loading or crashing.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1022872963)