WOWK 13 News 4+
Nexstar Broadcasting
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
News has never been more local than in the palm of your hand. The WOWK News 13 mobile app brings you all the top stories from our daily broadcasts, as well as stories developing in real time.
"13 News is the top news leader for the Huntington-Charleston area, covering local news, sports, and weather for West Virginia and parts of Kentucky and Ohio. Get all the latest WOWK 13 News, StormTracker13 Weather Radar and Forecasts, School Closings, Severe Weather Alerts, and WVU and Marshall Sports right all right here with the 13 News app.
FEATURES:
• Watch video of your trusted reporters on the scene, and read revealing articles on what's going on in your community.
• Plan your day and week with detailed weather reports, live alerts of severe conditions, and an interactive radar map.
• Optional alerts on breaking news keep you in the know.
• On the go? Save stories for later to access at your convenience.
What’s New
Version 500.4.0
We've fixed some bugs and improved general performance.
Ratings and Reviews
Nice app, but needs some work
This app is the only app that doesn't have a live stream, please bring a live stream, and please make some 3D Touch shortcuts into the app, and inside the app.
A battery leach with significant blind accessibility flaws.
The 13 News app has a few major issues with blind accessibility. While it does work with VoiceOver as far as reading almost all text and controls, it has important usability issues. The full-screen ad which appears at app launch is difficult to close because all interactive elements are so small and close together, necessitating a lot of pixel-hunting. Swiping up from the bottom as prompted apparently doesn't work with VoiceOver enabled.
Additionally, toggle switch options are split such that reading an option won't give its status. It is necessary to manually slide over to the actual switch to learn its state, which punishes inaccurate gesturing and leads to considerable trial and error when configuring news alerts. Even reading stories is problematic as continuous reading with VoiceOver results in jumping from the story text to the footer and navigation bar at the end of a page. It is necessary to scroll to the next page manually and then to restart continuous reading from the top of the page.
Finally, the frequency of alerts makes the app a battery hog. Even with only three or four alert categories enabled, more than a dozen alerts per day are typical. The problem is likely overlap between alert categories, which only more granular options or more discretionary story classification can resolve.
This app could be a good news source but needs a lot of work for the disabled.
Much better than the last one!
Easy to use and great alerts!
App Privacy
The developer, Nexstar Broadcasting, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.
- Size
- 68 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Nexstar Inc
- Price
- Free