WTNH News 8

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.6 18696 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Channel 8 review

   I love Channel right. Their news media tries to stay neutral as much as possible and their weather is always on a positive look even if it’s gonna be bad. Sam is the best weatherman of all the networks. Very positive and moves around the screen so you can see the whole Ct. The others including one of your stand on the south eastern side of the State so you can’t see the Newlondon Norwich area . But that is the only negative thing I have to say about the station. Dennis House will be a definite improvement in the overall presentation. Keep up the good work.

   bob0368 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 1/5For every meaningful notifications there are 5+ clickbait tabloid garbage notifs

   This app has become absolutely exhausting as you have chased WFSB down the miserable pothole-ridden road of tabloid-quality clickbait. I do not need to know every single time someone dies on some back road that no one drives on. If you want to report traffic, great. If you want to report on road death statistics and advocate for safer driving habits, fantastic. I do not need a push notification when someone in Windham is hurt because a tree fell on them, nor is it ethical to be reporting on it. This is tabloid garbage. I don’t want to turn off notifications because I don’t want to be out of the loop on CT news, and I already disabled WFSB long ago for this exact “reporting”. I always found your notifications to be more helpful and newsworthy, but lately this has completely changed. I am heartbroken that this is what our local news is, and I hope with everything I have that I never have to see a loved one’s final (or near final) moment used for ad revenue like this. I’m re-upping this rating and downgrading this from 2 stars to one star because I just got a push notification that 2 dogs died in some house fire an hour away from me. Even if it happened in town, why is that newsworthy? How awful for the family that their tragedy just became your clickbait to sell ads. This is contributing to the epidemic of anxiety and overall misery today. I think I’m just deleting this. I have other sources for local news. I don’t see to see this stuff.

   BradMacd · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Swing and a miss

   I had to rate according to how quickly it becomes frustrating after opening the app. I get several notifications per day of breaking news stories, and that’s really the most helpful feature of the app. However, when you try to open one of the notifications to read more, the article isn’t there. It just brings you to some video stream that is slow to buffer, and is not talking about the news story it just notified you of. Looking forward to an update that makes the end user experience more enjoyable. If you folks there at 8 paid some company top dollar to create this for you, you were ripped off. If designing this app was your kid’s project in computer class, then it was a great start, kudos to the little ones because its was better than I could make, but it still needs more tweaking to be professional.

   ChrisBell453 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 4/5Weather videos don’t always work

   The only trouble I’ve ever had with this app is the weather videos. Sometimes an incorrect video is posted, such as one from a different day, or there is no sound. These issues seem to happen less than they used to, or maybe I’ve just gotten used to it? However now if I click on the ‘weather’ tab, it closes the app. Not an issues if I click on the main weather headline on the front page, only if I click on the tab on the bottom. Otherwise we like this app and channel, just a few fixes would be great.

   Bachminnie · 30 Aug 2026

5. 3/5Too many notifications

   I like getting channel 8 news on my iPhone daily but the reason I am giving this only 3 stars is due to the number of notifications that I receive. They send WAY TOO much and it’s day and night and almost non stop! I’m also not sure how to get less news stories or if there is even a setting where one can limit the amount of news and stories that channel 8 sends . And another issue for me is the fact that it’s almost always bad news . It would be very welcome to hear ANY good news or human interest pieces . So please less constant bad news and/or useless information and more good deed kinds of news and human interest pieces please, thank you , BSL New Haven

   bosula63 · 30 Aug 2026

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