WAVE Local News

Name: WAVE Local News
Rating: 4.5 (3957 reviews)
Author: Gray Television Group, Inc.

By: Gray Television Group, Inc.

Serving Louisville, KY

Features & Capabilities

WAVE Local News delivers local news coverage for Louisville and the Kentuckiana region, featuring breaking news alerts, live headlines, sports, and video.

The app also serves nearby communities (New Albany, Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Corydon, Sellersburg, Madison) in Indiana and surrounding Kentucky towns, using your location to tailor content and ads. Location data may be shared with advertising partners to customize ads across apps. Please review our privacy policy for details and choices.

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By:

Gray Television Group, Inc.

Rating:

4.50

(3,957) 1 ratings

Version:

8.0.5 Last updated: 2026-05-13

Version code:

885628521

Creation date:

2011-07-20

Compatible devices:

Size:

101.76MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 30,319 ▼ 75

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Developed by:

Gray Television Group, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wave-local-news/id449657572

Website:

https://www.wave3.com/apps

User Reviews

Reviewers frequently praise WAVE Local News for its local coverage and useful weather alerts, but complain about an ad‑driven experience, intrusive alerts, and reliability/load issues. The UI is viewed as disorganized, navigation is frustrating, and many would prefer integrated weather instead of a separate app. Despite positives about staff and familiarity, the overall sentiment is marred by performance and monetization concerns.

Pros

Strong local news coverage with a trusted on‑air staff.
Weather alerts can be timely and helpful.
Longstanding, familiar app that many users have relied on for years.
Alerts for current events are appreciated.

Cons

Ads are intrusive and pervasive—opening the app shows full‑screen ads, ads interrupt content, and autoplay audio/video.
Alerts/notifications are hard to manage: persistent badges and popups that cannot be cleared, and ads tied to alerts.
Reliability issues after updates: the app can freeze on load, show no content, or display misleading connectivity errors.
Disorganized UI and cluttered layout that makes it hard to navigate and find current news.
Weather features require a separate app; users want integrated weather inside the Wave app.

Recent reviews

Very noisy app!! Every time it updates it plays a theme tune, all hours of day and night!! After a while it gets old!!

by Ra*****, 2026-05-22

Random ads and video clips just start playing out of nowhere. This new version is awful

by Su*****, 2026-05-11

You select watch live and you get all the ads. So annoying. If you touch the screen and reload, all the ads reload. App Prior version much better. The screen for prior shows also does not load - and this defaults to non local options. Try to select what you want all the ads reload, just a nasty circle wasting my time. Very annoying.