Alaska's News Source

Gray Television, Inc.

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About this app

Alaska's News Source is a news and media organization. With a mission To Tell Alaska’s Story, our team of award-winning journalists are dedicated to reporting on news, sports, and weather across the 49th state. Stream content live or watch on demand newscasts, clips, and full forecasts for free.

App features include:
-Get statewide news, sports, and weather anytime, anywhere
-Breaking news and severe weather updates
-Push alert notifications
-Livestream newscasts and special events
-Submit news tips, photos, and videos

Ratings and reviews

This used to be my go to news app, but now I am going to delete it. Format has changed and stories are now routed to a web browser. If I wanted to read them in the browser, I would just go to the website. I thought that was slightly irritating but now the links in the app take you to a completely different story so the app is pretty much useless.

The app settings allow you to set it so you only get notifications from breaking news, i.e. important stories, but they will still spam you with notifications to stories that aren't breaking news and don't matter. Not worth using this app due to poorly handled notification spam. I don't need an interruption every time some producer thinks their unimportant story is "breaking news."

My issue with the app is that when I finish reading a story and press the < arrow to return to the story list, I am returned to the top of the list. Not so bad if I'm at the top on my reading, but irritating if I have to continually scroll through the entire list because I'm trying to read stories near the bottom of the list.

What's new

TV:
Improvements to app navigation
Improvements to app responsiveness
Added more previous newscast options

Mobile:
Changes to the livestream player