# WAVE Local News

> Serving Louisville, KY

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id449657572](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id449657572)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id449657572`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (3,962 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.0.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-16
- **First published:** 2011-07-20
- **Size:** 97 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-01
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wave-local-news/id449657572)
- **Website:** [https://www.wave3.com/apps](https://www.wave3.com/apps)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.wave3.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.wave3.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

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.

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id449657572)