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20 reviews

Review by Jeffrey J
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) October 20, 2020

A massive downgrade in usability from the Bay News 9 app that is being phased out. Checking the weather radar requires more steps and when you play the time lapse there is no way to get back to the current state. Reading an article requires signing in but you can’t actually do that (not is […]

Review by Eric Vey
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) August 28, 2023

So far so good. No crashes. Wish I could “cast” with it to my roku and that it handled Android 6.x. Update: I’m getting some crashes now streaming live (and I forgot to mention how great that is, especially all news rather than just local). Sound is tinny and it just stops sometimes with no […]

Review by Renee VV
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) May 12, 2021

Not an improvement. I mostly only used the weather portion of the old app. I don’t like the new app’s weather portion as I don’t see how to default to the weather upon opening and the weather settings do not save. I keep changing it to satellite and lightning strikes, but as soon as I […]

Review by L D
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) February 12, 2022

Before Spectrum bought out Bright House, this weather service was THE best, most accurate one out there for our area. Now it’s less accurate than Weather Channel. I still use the app for the Klystron 9 and some news, but I never use their weather predictions anymore. They’re not very accurate. I’m saddened because now […]

Review by Mike Live
β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜† (2/5) April 12, 2023

It’s a great app for accurate weather,…. when the damn app works. I work outside, it’s very important to know when exactly it’s going to rain. When I need to find out the weather, it’s really like flipping a coin, if I win the toss and the damn app works, it’s pretty accurate. If I […]

Review by Linda Rampone
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) March 21, 2021

I am writing because I miss the old version of your app. I don’t find the wind speed that was available in the old one or the pollen counts readily available. This would be a great new update!!! Please consider! : ) I also would prefer the choice to receive the critical wearher and local […]

Review by Honey
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) May 6, 2021

Why?! Ugh! You ruined a perfectly good app that Im sure many people depend on. In my case my husband works outside doing dangerous work and I need to quickly be able to look at a decent radar weather map. This new apps weather map doesnt save my overlay preferences and is extremely pixelated and […]

Review by Phil Warwick
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) April 17, 2021

The “new” app is hard to navigate, locks up frequently, and usually doesn’t load properly. Links are often not working properly, and the weather information, in particular, is lacking. It no long provides wind information (or if it does, it is very well hidden), and over half the time weather radar just doesn’t work. When […]

Review by Delores Jones
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) June 6, 2022

Lately, I haven’t been able to access the news. I will receive a headIine story pop up, on my screen, but when I try to open it up, it takes me to a sign in screen for unlimited access. The bar to touch to access the sign in feature does absolutely nothing, but flicker a […]

Review by Scott Kalb (Scottie)
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… (5/5) August 5, 2020

Very well designed app. It is clean, sharp looking and organized well. I read a previous reviewers review and he mentioned not being able to log in as a spectrum subscriber. In the opening screens when you first install the app I noticed that I couldn’t log in either. Once in the app tap on […]

Review by Rich Stevens
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) May 29, 2021

The new weather map is horrible. It takes several clicks and then dragging to get to the map to open it. Once in motion, it automatically goes three hours in the future; no way to change that. Clicking to freeze motion does not freeze at current time; it requires jogging back and forth and still […]

Review by Kristin H
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) June 18, 2021

The old app was so good for weather. Why change it? This new app is not weather oriented, cannot save overlays, and it also will not allow the user to take a screen shot of the radar map due to the security policy! Why is this important? My family and I have to communicate a […]

Review by I love lamp
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) June 23, 2025

probably the most useless app I’ve ever been forced to download…. just put billing changes in the actual spectrum app. do not force travel to your dog fart news app.

Review by Jack ODonnell
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) August 23, 2025

the only thing I want on spectrum news is local news. lots of local news.

Review by Laurel T
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† (3/5) June 26, 2025

Remove articles that are more than 2 days old (current new in past 48 hrs) as typically under ‘More’ or ‘You may be interested in) are MONTHS old. It’s very frustrating to rely on this app for daily current news articles.

Review by Cathy Morey
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) May 25, 2025

just got a new phone and was making sure all my apps were working properly. spectrum app had all the stories but no pictures like before. I uninstalled it, then reinstalled the app. at the part of tell me where home is, it would not take any address, zip code or city. can’t get into […]

Review by Michael Patterson
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) August 12, 2025

can’t enter my location so I’m not allowed to use this app I waited till 2 weeks went by but t it refuses my home address zipcode didn’t work either

Review by Amy Mitchell
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) September 24, 2025

Not good right now…since the last update it crashes when I log into it says please try again. I used to use this app daily and now can’t please fix!!!!

Review by C M
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) August 4, 2025

Not sure, what’s going on with the app. But the radar would not load for the past 2 days, and there was no update. So I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. Now, it won’t allow me to add my location or any location for that matter.

Review by Terry Roscoe
β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜† (1/5) October 10, 2025

Version 2.42 through 2.45 blocks overlays and does not have this permission to do so. I enabled/disabled the picture in picture setting but it didn’t change this condition. Please update app to permit overlays. It also appears Google is indifferent to my complaint too.