# Buffalo News from WGRZ

> Breaking news & video

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id469738487](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id469738487)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id469738487`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tegna Inc.
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (20,156 ratings)
- **Version:** 50.25.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-06
- **First published:** 2011-10-26
- **Size:** 269 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buffalo-news-from-wgrz/id469738487)
- **Website:** [https://www.wgrz.com/](https://www.wgrz.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.wgrz.com/privacy](https://www.wgrz.com/privacy)

## Description

Stay up-to-date with the latest news and weather in Buffalo and Western New York with the free WGRZ2 app from WGRZ. Get breaking alerts, interactive radar, and live video from our newscasts and local events.

Personalize your feed by choosing topics that matter to you, receive real-time notifications for breaking news, and share stories with friends. Features also include hyperlocal severe weather alerts, school delay updates, behind-the-scenes photos, and casting videos to your TV or streaming device.

## Rankings

- #11,664 — Overall

## Review summary

The Buffalo News from WGRZ app is praised for strong local journalism and timely weather, plus readability and broad Buffalo-area coverage. Repeated drawbacks center on stability and navigation problems, ad-heavy playback, radar/UI issues after updates, and missing features like rewatching recent broadcasts. Overall content quality is high, but UX and performance hinder consistent, satisfying use.

### Pros

- Strong local journalism with trusted anchors and coverage.
- Timely weather updates and alerts.
- Easy-to-read headlines and news content.
- Buffalo-area focused coverage that keeps viewers connected.
- On-demand content and additional programming (replays, specials).

### Cons

- Stability issues: crashes, freezes, and the app won't stay open on devices.
- Clunky navigation and design changes, with no search feature and reduced usability in landscape mode.
- Intrusive, repetitive ads that disrupt viewing.
- Weather radar visualization problems in updated formats (overlay blocks radar; ads interfere with radar page).
- Missing features like the ability to re-watch the most recent broadcast.

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