NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth News

Name: NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth News
Rating: 4.5 (3584 reviews)
Author: NBCUniversal Media, LLC

24/7 Live News Stream, Weather

Free

3.6K Ratings
Age Rating

18+
In-App Controls
Chart

#152
News
Developer

NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

216.3
MB

The NBC DFW app is your trusted source for local news, NBC 5 First Alert Weather forecasts, breaking alerts, live radar, traffic updates, and 24/7 news streaming for Dallas, Fort Worth, and North Texas. Get trusted local reporting from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and severe weather updates from the First Alert Weather team. Personalize notifications by location to follow breaking news, tornado warnings, extreme heat advisories, public safety, politics, elections, transit, and entertainment. Why use the NBC DFW app? If you live in Dallas, Fort Worth or North Texas, NBC DFW helps you stay informed about breaking news, severe weather, traffic, public safety, politics and elections with trusted reporting and personalized alerts. What can you do with the NBC DFW app? Follow Dallas-Fort Worth local news * Get alerts for local, national and world news, politics and developing stories * Read articles and watch videos from NBC 5 journalists * Check the Alerts Center for stories you may have missed Follow Dallas-Fort Worth and Texas elections * Get coverage of Dallas elections, Fort Worth races and statewide Texas contests * Follow primaries, midterms, presidential elections and local government races * Track candidates, ballot measures, voter information and election results * Watch live election coverage from NBC 5 Check NBC 5 First Alert Weather * View current conditions, hourly and 10-day forecasts * Get severe weather alerts and watch forecasts from NBC 5 meteorologists * Use the weather widget for real-time conditions based on your location Track weather with live radar * Follow changing weather across Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas * Access live radar and weather data * Save locations and receive weather alerts Stay informed during severe weather * Track storms, tornado warnings, hail, flooding and severe weather alerts * Follow live updates during storms and emergency conditions * Watch weather briefings from NBC 5 meteorologists Stream NBC DFW News 24/7 * Watch the NBC DFW News 24/7 streaming channel * Stream live NBC 5 newscasts * Watch live coverage of urgent local events and elections Read NBC 5 Investigates and NBC 5 Responds * Access investigative journalism from NBC 5 Investigates * Get consumer reporting from NBC 5 Responds Who is the NBC DFW app for? The NBC DFW app is for people across Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Irving, Denton and North Texas who want local news, weather, live radar, traffic, public safety, politics, elections and breaking news updates. When should you use the NBC DFW app? Use the app to get Dallas-Fort Worth breaking news alerts, check NBC 5 First Alert Weather and live radar, track storms and tornado warnings, watch NBC 5 newscasts, stream NBC DFW News 24/7, and follow local and Texas elections. Can I get Dallas-Fort Worth breaking news alerts? Yes. Personalize alerts for Dallas breaking news, Fort Worth and North Texas headlines, weather, elections, politics, national and world news, and urgent local stories. Can I follow Dallas-Fort Worth and Texas election coverage? Yes. Follow Dallas and Fort Worth elections, Texas statewide races, primaries, midterms and presidential elections, including candidates, ballot measures, voter information and results. Does the NBC DFW app include live radar and severe weather updates? Yes. Get live radar, real-time conditions, hourly and 10-day forecasts, weather alerts, saved locations, severe weather updates and videos from NBC 5 meteorologists. Can I watch NBC DFW live in the app? Yes. Stream NBC DFW News 24/7, live NBC 5 newscasts, breaking news, election coverage and urgent local event coverage. NBC DFW helps Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas viewers stay informed with NBC 5 local news, First Alert Weather, live radar, severe weather alerts, elections and live news streaming.

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Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

3.6K Ratings

Keeping up with the metroplex
06/25/2020
D. Vicki
I wrote this months ago and thought I had posted it then, but found I had not. My opinion of this app has not changed. It is great, easy to use, and still has excellent videos, alerts, remote footage, etc. I am sorry I failed to post this at that time: After living in Arlington for 10 years, we moved back to Wichita Falls. As we still have family in the DFW area, when severe weather broke out right above our grand-daughter’s apartment, I went right to live feed of the area on the local NBC app. Felt much better after watching the live feed for awhile and put the app on my phone. Thanks to this great, clear app, we have peace of mind as we check it quite often, especially when something’s amiss in her area. Up til now, we’ve never had any issues when using this app and commend them for the live feed, esp the good quality of the video within minutes of the severe tornado in the past year that caused quite a lot of destruction. Their chopper’s fly-overs while checking the destruction in the days following was always very clear and commend their chopper pilot for the steady flying.
Keeping up with the metroplex
06/25/2020
D. Vicki

I wrote this months ago and thought I had posted it then, but found I had not. My opinion of this app has not changed. It is great, easy to use, and still has excellent videos, alerts, remote footage, etc. I am sorry I failed to post this at that time: After living in Arlington for 10 years, we moved back to Wichita Falls. As we still have family in the DFW area, when severe weather broke out right above our grand-daughter’s apartment, I went right to live feed of the area on the local NBC app. Felt much better after watching the live feed for awhile and put the app on my phone. Thanks to this great, clear app, we have peace of mind as we check it quite often, especially when something’s amiss in her area. Up til now, we’ve never had any issues when using this app and commend them for the live feed, esp the good quality of the video within minutes of the severe tornado in the past year that caused quite a lot of destruction. Their chopper’s fly-overs while checking the destruction in the days following was always very clear and commend their chopper pilot for the steady flying.
This app is almost perfect but not quite
01/31/2019
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I love the idea behind this app but the execution is just not there. You can’t do anything without the live stream of NBC freaking out! I wanted to adjust my screens light so I pulled down the utilities menu on my phone. When I slid up it sent me straight back to the home page of the app. I went back to watch the stream and it came up with a service error, which always happens. I refresh it and it normally will work but it’s more than just trying to adjust something and the app reopening. I like to rotate and expand my videos but it is so fidgety!! There is no place to rotate the screen or zoom in/ out, therefore you can’t see the titles on news broadcasts, almost all of the time. It is so frustrating that I can’t manually press a rotation button. I’m left with it broadcasted tiny on the upper part of my screen because even when it does rotate to be bigger it almost always will go back to its small size on the upper half of my phone, even when in a horizontal position. Oh and when it falls flat on a surface it does the same thing. As I have said previously, the idea is great but the little errors get super frustrating and the videos don’t load 80% of the time... I’ll still keep this app but with a little frustration. It could all be due to maybe a new update needed or something.
This app is almost perfect but not quite
01/31/2019


I love the idea behind this app but the execution is just not there. You can’t do anything without the live stream of NBC freaking out! I wanted to adjust my screens light so I pulled down the utilities menu on my phone. When I slid up it sent me straight back to the home page of the app. I went back to watch the stream and it came up with a service error, which always happens. I refresh it and it normally will work but it’s more than just trying to adjust something and the app reopening. I like to rotate and expand my videos but it is so fidgety!! There is no place to rotate the screen or zoom in/ out, therefore you can’t see the titles on news broadcasts, almost all of the time. It is so frustrating that I can’t manually press a rotation button. I’m left with it broadcasted tiny on the upper part of my screen because even when it does rotate to be bigger it almost always will go back to its small size on the upper half of my phone, even when in a horizontal position. Oh and when it falls flat on a surface it does the same thing. As I have said previously, the idea is great but the little errors get super frustrating and the videos don’t load 80% of the time... I’ll still keep this app but with a little frustration. It could all be due to maybe a new update needed or something.
Staff and news coverage
12/27/2019
Dr. R Edwards
This is the only news channel we watch every a.m every evening we have watched it for years. I like everyone on the news. After a.m news we never miss the today show either. Some anchors left some retired and some passed still miss them. Really miss Cathy Gifford. The staff keeps the news interesting and informs you of many things. Love how the today show always brings new things like training the puppy until it leaves for a forever home. Will continue with channel 5 when you have the best why change?Thank you to all staff for all you do to keep the news interesting and us well informed.I also have the app on my phone and if I am away from home I go the app I love itOnly thing I would like changed is to be able to make comments but, for whatever reason it always says this site is not available.
Staff and news coverage
12/27/2019
Dr. R Edwards

This is the only news channel we watch every a.m every evening we have watched it for years. I like everyone on the news. After a.m news we never miss the today show either. Some anchors left some retired and some passed still miss them. Really miss Cathy Gifford. The staff keeps the news interesting and informs you of many things. Love how the today show always brings new things like training the puppy until it leaves for a forever home. Will continue with channel 5 when you have the best why change?Thank you to all staff for all you do to keep the news interesting and us well informed.I also have the app on my phone and if I am away from home I go the app I love itOnly thing I would like changed is to be able to make comments but, for whatever reason it always says this site is not available.
Failing to Load, devs trying to kill an app?? 🤔
04/12/2022
Cirikkati
The last 2-3 updates have completely made the app unusable. For pretext I set up my app to load in the weather section with what used to be a “live radar,” the NBC 5 radar. Since NBC DFW owns and operates their own radar it means that they are able to directly publish new radar data every minute. This is what brought me to the app, as nbc’s data will be the most updated and reliable source. About one or two updates ago some change made the radar almost unusable and seemed to inhibit the app refreshing and loading new data. The most recent update has actually made the app unusable, nothing is loading in! I constantly get a “URLSessionTask failed with error: The request timed out.” on my screen before the app can even load in one piece of data. I’ve forced the app closed multiple times to reopen it to no avail and have uninstalled twice now as well. NBC 5 your app just kept getting worse over time and you finally have tried to kill it. Hopefully your dev team can get stuff back on track.P.s. like lots of other comments, GET RID OF THE ADS DURING BREAKING NEWS OR WEATHER EVENTS. K thx byeee.

Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! We’re sorry you’ve experienced issues with our app and radar. We just released a new version, which includes fixes for the problems you’ve flagged. We hope you will update the app and continue to use it. Thanks again!😊
Failing to Load, devs trying to kill an app?? 🤔
04/12/2022
Cirikkati

The last 2-3 updates have completely made the app unusable. For pretext I set up my app to load in the weather section with what used to be a “live radar,” the NBC 5 radar. Since NBC DFW owns and operates their own radar it means that they are able to directly publish new radar data every minute. This is what brought me to the app, as nbc’s data will be the most updated and reliable source. About one or two updates ago some change made the radar almost unusable and seemed to inhibit the app refreshing and loading new data. The most recent update has actually made the app unusable, nothing is loading in! I constantly get a “URLSessionTask failed with error: The request timed out.” on my screen before the app can even load in one piece of data. I’ve forced the app closed multiple times to reopen it to no avail and have uninstalled twice now as well. NBC 5 your app just kept getting worse over time and you finally have tried to kill it. Hopefully your dev team can get stuff back on track.P.s. like lots of other comments, GET RID OF THE ADS DURING BREAKING NEWS OR WEATHER EVENTS. K thx byeee.
Developer Response 06/01/2022
Thank you for your feedback! We’re sorry you’ve experienced issues with our app and radar. We just released a new version, which includes fixes for the problems you’ve flagged. We hope you will update the app and continue to use it. Thanks again!😊

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Seller: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Size: 216.3 MB
Category: News
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.6 or later.

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Languages: English
Age Rating: 18+

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