WRAL News App

Capitol Broadcasting Company

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About this app

The new WRAL News App delivers coverage you can count on in Raleigh, Durham and Fayetteville, NC. Follow breaking news from North Carolina's largest news team and most experienced severe weather team.

Stay connected with our app:
• Watch WRAL News+ live 24/7 and continue to watch as you multitask while using other apps on your device.
• Tap the weather icon and temperature on the top right to access current conditions, the 7-day forecast, interactive radar and more.
• Enable notifications to follow breaking news.
• Customize your home screen to show the news you care about the most.

Additional features:
• Use the improved navigation to go beyond the top news. Open the menu along the top left of the screen to find things to do, politics, sports, education and more.
• See more live video streams via the video player at the top of the home screen
• Open the menu to submit a news tip via Report It, subscribe to our newsletters, view our award-winning documentaries and more.
• View the Latest News to stay up-to-date with news as it happens.

Ratings and reviews

Each design update is worse than the last. UI uses screen space for pictures of the staff...why? I hate that they assume I want to hear the video, so the app stops any other audio going on. The same story is shown multiple times right next to each other. Shows stale articles from a month or more ago. So.many.dumb.ads. Turns out that not all change is "progress."

This app is better organized than the other local news apps. BUT I have problems with the articles not loading when I click on them. I end up closing it, counting to 3 and clicking again. Sometimes it takes doing this twice, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. This is about 50% in "top stories", but 90% in the "latest" category. Despite this issue, I still use the app bc it's the best of our local news apps

I have not been impressed with the major update. The most annoying "feature," closing the app to the background sometimes results in the video player staying open on my screen. If this is intended behavior of the app a user should be able to disable this. I should not need to close the app and then have to follow up with closing a video window. The amount of wasted screen space in this app is kind of mind blowing, a big video at the top and photos of the anchors at the bottom. Do better.

What’s new

• Bug fixes and performance improvements