ABC Action News Tampa Bay

The app isn’t really terrible, but it’s almost impossible to read anything because of pop-up ads that constantly interrupt what you’re trying to read. I finally gave up on it and deleted it. Too bad

Way too many adds. Can’t watch any news since the ads are constantly popping up on my screen

Ever since the app updated about 1-2 months ago, it’s absolutely terrible. I used to read news on this app all the time, but it times out, brings you to headlines that are not in the notification I clicked on, and it’s nothing but a bunch of interstitial ads that don’t work or you watch and then scroll down to read the story and ANOTHER ad pops up. Awful. I literally look at notification headlines then just do an internet search to read on other sites. What a shame

As soon as I open the app a video keeps playing and I can’t do anything to stop it. I’m about to delete it. It is so annoying and frustrating.

Don’t know what happened but can’t read a news story without a video ad taking over the screen. You close it and it pops back up. Made the app useless and complete junk. Deleting.

I got this app because I thought it would provide an entire day’s radar forecast, it doesn’t do anything even worthwhile, you can only see what happened, which you already know! I’m guessing that Scripts has done what most greedy companies have done, and placed anything useful behind a “PAY WALL”, which for a broadcast company is the epitome of GREED. This app is useless for all practical purposes, and I’ll be deleting it after this review. I will also not be watching ABC-28 (or ANYTHING ABC) from now on. They present little more than propaganda anyway.

Thanks for leading me to a better app and news source.

This app has now been rendered useless. Scripps Media group is ruining everything they touch including the Sarasota ABC affiliate. I’m deleting it and I’ll watch Denis Phillips on X

Did an app update on my Apple phone now the ABC Action News app won’t open.

There were tornadoes around my area so I tried to use this app to follow the weather from the safe place in my home. Absolutely no live coverage overnight. Just the pre-recorded segments that had zero to do with what was happening live. Had to leave the bathroom repeatedly to get updates from the TV, and was doing this as the tornado was passing over my home. Luckily, it had lifted off the ground by that point, but me or my family could’ve been hurt. This is just pre-recorded videos and advertisements. Mostly advertisements. This app is NOT a helpful tool in an emergency.