WPRI 12 News - Providence, RI

Nexstar Digital (formerly Lin Media)

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About this app

News has never been more local than in the palm of your hand. The WPRI 12 mobile app brings you all the top stories from our daily broadcasts, as well as stories developing in real time.

WPRI 12 Eyewitness News is “Coverage You Can Count On.” Your local leader in weather, and breaking news for Providence, Rhode Island, and southeastern Massachusetts.

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 conditions, 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.

Ratings and reviews

Not sure what bugs you were fixing with the latest update, but the app was working just fine for me before. Since the update, the videos don't work as they used to, not quite fitting into the screen as it should, seeming more "stretched out". And the video playback is now not recognized by my phone, which means the screen will time out after about 2 min and I have to log back in to finish watching the video.

I really don't understand why, when I open the app, it runs you through a numerous commercials/ads only to put you on standby to wait... for the next set of Advertisements. My thoughts are that if I'm trying to watch the news from 11:00p on the previous day, it should be pretty seamless, besides ads of course. Today there's no sound for the broadcast, but the sound works when there's an advertisement on. It's always something going wrong with the app on a daily basis. smh

Vastly inferior to the previous version. Does not allow direct and simple download. Can only view by opening old app, clicking on "upgrade" which takes you to Google Play (android) where you then select "open" which takes you right back where you started (old app home page with "upgrade" option) - only now there is a menu icon in the upper right corner which leads to a tedious process of locating stories. No more "Top Stories" header. The number of steps is ridiculous. Fix it, please!

What's new

We’ve fixed some bugs and improved general performance.