WTAE Pittsburgh's Action News4

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.6 7877 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Thank You!

   Grew-up in the ‘60’s & ‘70’s, in the South Hills. Early-on, it was black & white tv, w/only 6 channels: 2, 4, 11, 13, 7 ( from Wheeling), & 9 ( from Steubenville). Channel 4 was “ghostly”, so I didn’t see much. As I grew, things changed, & we got a color tv, & there’s channel 4! Always enjoyed the “Afterschool Special “, & of course, “General Hospital “!!! I got married, stayed somewhat local for about 6 years, then moved out-of state for 4 years. While away, I always sought the ABC affiliate. Since coming back, I’m still somewhat local, & I continue to watch channel 4; some series (ie; “Grey’s Anatomy”), & especially, the news. Having the app on my iPad, & iPhone, I can keep-up w/EVERYTHING...news, sports, & especially weather, if I’m not near the tv. Just means sooo much to be alerted when severe weather is upon us, & have the radar, right @ my fingertips. Thank You!

   meak-h · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Disappointed

   I’ve been a fan of WTAE for a long time -but recently I’ve noticed that the news stories have been consistently biased against a conservative mindset. So, I have pretty much stopped watching network television pretty much all together. I keep the app because I do like to stay in touch with (what I am finding out is a very small fraction) of what goes on locally. I rate this app with only one star for the following reasons: Weekend news stories are rarely updated after Friday night. I’ve been seeing a headline about “Watch These Squirrels Go Nuts” for 5 months - seriously??? Sports coverage on the app is terrible and often days behind. Recently, the top sports headline said proudly that Pittsburgh will be home to the Toronto Blue Jays for the MLB season. However, the top headline at the very beginning of the app said that PA State Govt. had denied the request. On the actual cable TV news channel, they say consistently, “check back with the WTAE channel 4 news app for the latest details“ and yet the stories are never, ever updated there. While scrolling through the app and clicking on an item of interest, once you hit the back button to go back to see the rest of the headlines, the app will often take you way back to the top of the main page causing you to need to scroll down, all the way through again. Pretty annoying. It’s like the app updated, but there are no new stories, all still the same, you just have to scroll through them again and try to remember where you left off. I want to go to the app to see news, but it’s often disappointing. It seems like the only reason they want us to go to the app is to see the advertisements. Oh wait, isn’t that the main reason that television network news was invented? To make a profit while satisfying people’s self imposed need for what is often biased information - and to spread an agenda?

   ex WTAE news app fan · 31 Jul 2026

3. 2/5Needs some work

   This app is my favorite and the easiest for checking both the weather radar and my local forecast. But there are a several problems IMO. I don’t like that it won’t rotate when reading but especially when trying to watch a video. It drives me crazy when, after reading a couple of news stories it takes me back to the beginning instead of returning me to where I was, leaving me to have to continually scroll back down to continue with the next story. Because of this I generally read my news from another local news app then come to this one for the radar and to see if there is news not covered on the other app. Some stories stay on this app for weeks, maybe longer, and I’ve even seen one that was posted for weeks and FINALLY taken off reappear a few months later! NEWSFLASH! Those stories are no longer news! That also makes me crazy. At times the live news doesn’t work and I can’t go back and watch a broadcast I missed in between live news times. So I don’t usually bother trying.

   Tealady55 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5Annoying

   Although the graphics are terrific, the rest is annoying. Having to watch an entire video of the weather to see the forecast is annoying especially if you are somewhere where the audio can’t or shouldn’t be played. The breaking news alerts are inaccurate. When clicking on a breaking news alert isn’t not on the site. If it’s that important, it should be there. The news stories are old and often there for days. Playing a video of a news story is also annoying especially when in areas where playing video reports is inappropriate.

   Cherubcrnp · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5I want NEWS not ADS!!!

   This app was my go to app for local news. It works most of the time and is usually up to date, but with one of their recent updates, they lost at least one user, if not more. I know ads support your revenue stream, and your trying to get as many people to view them as possible, but come on, do you really need your embedded ads to launch mid-story, without interaction? I love reading the news on my packed bus into work, and while I’m reading a tragic story about what’s happening in the world today, I don’t need a random ad, that I didn’t interact with trying to sell lipstick to everyone else on the bus. I’m fine with the accidental AD video launching when I click on it, but don’t force ADs on me that I don’t want to know more about, when I’m trying to see if it’s going to rain on me at the bus stop. I hope they fix the app, and make it so I can get News again, but in its present form, with the bombardment of ADs, this is definitely a free app that’s a waste of space on your phone.

   Dwreck0320 · 31 Jul 2026

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