KCCI 8 News - Des Moines

Name: KCCI 8 News - Des Moines
Rating: 4.20812 (4747 reviews)

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User Reviews for KCCI 8 News - Des Moines

To Worse, WOW even worse now 2018

The only App with Pop-up Commercials! The is horrible, when that happens to me I just close the app, and go somewhere else for Iowa News.How dare you waste my data plan minutes I pay for with a commercial. If I want to watch an ad I’LL MAKE THE DECISION. I understand if I pick a video to watch, (commercial first then video) Normally I just turn the volume off, and come back in 30 seconds. But unwanted commercial I didn’t ask for. Pff…Bad design and difficult to follow/use.The most ads for a news group, HORRIBLE.Takes over my speakers and shuts down my music too, if I wanted to listen to a story I understand. This is the only app I have that does that. Which is why I rarely use it first, I'll go to other Media apps 1st.Rating STILL has not changed. Too slanted information and not just the facts. Turns OFF my music that I'm listening to, no other app does this, why?. I avoid this app for news due to this issue while listening to music. Too many Ads, and worthless news.Still the same only app to shut off my speakers. Too May ads!!! Silly miss leading headlines.Oh and now using VUZ, BAD choice how about some national news from CBS. Still a 1 star, be a half star if they had it.

Bad748, Mar 19, 2018

Doing better, just fix the radar

I just re-read my review from a year ago. A lot has improved since then. KCCI still has the most up to date app in the area. I still see a lot of buried stories that should be visible from the home page. I also see a lot of stories that aren’t local that stay in the buried stories for about a week. That’s too long. My major complaint now is with the radar. I like to put it in motion so I can see what direction the storm is moving, but the radar goes back about 8 hours, then slowly and painfully moves through that time period with long pauses and jerks forward until it almost gets to the current time, then the app crashes. So I never get to see what direction the storm was moving in the last half hour or so. I wish it would just go back about 1-2 hours rather than 8. Maybe it would function better if it didn’t go back so far.

Carrots4lunch, Jul 21, 2019

Review for weather and more

Would like to see Dew Point on the weather hourly or at least once a day on the weather app less commercials and short news time making people wait to see the weather I know your company has to make money and your all greedy and want more and more put the commercials during the sports time Less sports crap or keep it till towards the end of the news Sports is NOT important to many of us watching the news we don’t care who can jump or run the fastest Channel 8 is almost getting as bad as Channel 13 I hope it don’t come to that but if so maybe Channel 5 can keep their act together

chewiecarl, Apr 22, 2021

Slants to the right

I have been a loyal KCCI follower for over 40 years. But, at this time, I am debating whether I want to continue the relationship. I like the reporters and the weather-presenters very much; and I believe that they do their best to provide professional delivery of the news. However, stories I see on the app as well as advertising on live TV most unfortunately slants to the right politically. What happened to the truth?Given that all Republican-leaning sponsored political ads shown on your station are full of lies, thereby greatly damaging the credibility of YOUR entire PROGRAMMING, why is it that your advertising department is not required to protect the interests of your station by reviewing the contents of said political advertisements for content, in order to refuse to show such false advertising? I can’t be the only viewer who is changing the station to one with more truth in advertising as well as in reporting.

dinkindesmoines, Oct 27, 2021

You don’t get to control video playback.

I wanted to like this. After all, KCCI is probably the best news station in Iowa. But a couple of things ultimately made me delete it. First, when I click on an interest headline to read the story, usually a video starts playing right away that I can’t stop. I often catch up on news during quiet moments at work or when my baby is napping, so I always have to hurriedly close the app. Sigh. Also I don’t find the main page to be intuitively organized. It’s kind of a chore to find things.Update June 2020: I downloaded the app again to keep up with news on the riots. It works great to watch the newscast while the news cast is simultaneously on TV. But if I want to watch anything else, I have to watch at least five commercials for 10 seconds of video. It’s a little crazy and not for me. Will delete again. Sigh.

LilacBloom, Jun 02, 2020

News

The stories are full of opinions instead of facts from both sides of an issue. There are a lot of local stories that are buried. There should be a separate section for stories that keep repeating themselves. Like COVID. It is important and deserves its own section where people know to go. But it should bury important local stories. A lot of stories that have an eye catching title are a disappointment because there is just a paragraph with no explanation or resolution. Odd. The politics are not well explained - what happens is just a regurgitation instead of any well explained issues without opinions. There are no support for people, not politicians.

LPRN21, Feb 06, 2021

my news cup is at 50%

it’s neither half-full nor half-empty, sadly. i am an eternal optimist, which would suggest i would hope the app will improve, but we are all familiar with the clichéd definition of insanity, aren’t we? i click on a story, sit through the same 15-30 second advert i just saw on the previous news clip, only to see a report reading the text that is the same that accompanies the video. nothing is there to enhance it. not much bang for one’s advertising buck, either. not only that, the stories are way too short. please, we’ve paid the price of admission (watching the ads), string together some in-depth reporting not available on the broadcast news. turn your reporters loose. i happen to know that they are really quite talented and capable of doing more than the scant who what and sometimes where. let’s REALLY make the kcci news app a place where iowans - and others - think of as a destination for true, investigative coverage of local issues that go well beyond the headlines. the register certainly doesn’t do it anymore. i would LOVE to see some truly award-winning visual newswork. you have the right people on staff. use them, or sure as heck, you’ll squander those valuable assets. become a real 5-star operation.please?

mostly reverend kim, Jan 06, 2021

Awful app

This app is terrible. Many of the titles are cut off of the headline stories such that you can't read the whole thing- even when you're on the page specifically for that story. Then the transcript is cut off also which makes it impossible to just skim the news when you don't want to sit and watch videos all day. There are lots of ads that pop up when you open the app. You have to watch an ad for about 15 seconds before you can watch the video clip you wanted to see. Half of the time the app crashes between the ad and the video, but if you make it through the video, it still crashes after that frequently. Hate that I have to literally click on national news to see anything that isn't local. Seems like users should be able to set preferences. Overall it's a glitchy, poorly designed app that I very much dislike.

osdsh, Nov 01, 2017

Not relevant news

Why must you keep stories the same for a week or more ? I mean seriously is the masked rapper that died that important? Just heard today about the scandal at West Point land it wasn’t from a news source let alone the supposedly best news in central Iowa. Not much changes I have complained bout this before and all I ever get is told to delete and reinstall or make sure I have latest version. So I do it and nothing is different. So from a 38 year old , life long fan and supporter , I m going to be signing off for the last time on kcci . Maybe I ll hear bout some one finally making changes over there and getting the iT department or app people to fix this but I seriously doubt it. So see ya .

precision seed, Jan 04, 2021

Add more news stories

You have some articles on here for a month or more. Move on as it is boring news. Sick of hearing what you think you want to report and not what the public really wants to see or hear. Tell the truth and not your side of what you want us to hear. Same goes for weather as we live in Iowa and winter can be nasty. But employers require us to be accountable. Awhile back you showed a tree blown over and that occurs too. You have most up to date technology for weather but most that I talk to complain how you’re rarely right on that topic. I cut out regular TV and National news because it’s Fake and your opinions. Lots are leaving news all together or not watching as it’s bogus. Fix it before you’re a thing of the past and out of work.

stevens nickels, Apr 17, 2021

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Take the KCCI 8 News app with you everywhere you go and be the first to know of breaking news happening in Des Moines and the surrounding area. Always stay up to date with the latest local news, national, sports, traffic, political, entertainment stories and much more. Download the KCCI 8 News app for free today.

Our Local News, Weather and Sports App Features Include: - Des Moines breaking news alerts with push notifications - Live streaming breaking news updates from our KCCI 8 News reporters when it happens, where it happens - Local news submission area for breaking news, news tips and the ability to email your news photos and videos right to our newsroom to be featured on air - Share stories via email or your social media pages - Up to date, current local weather conditions, hourly Des Moines weather updates, and 7 day forecasts - An interactive radar that lets you zoom in and out to street level and watch storms as they approach. Move the map around to see major weather activity - Des Moines weather alerts and updates, Storm Team 8 weather videocasts and more