WSAZ News

If you live in the Charleston tri-state area, and like your news on the go, this is your app! I love it because I can watch all the newscasts on the go or a recording of one if I missed it. There's also a weather feed so you can get all your local weather forecasts within a few minutes. yes they have ads but it's very minimal, and that's standard nowadays. I have also won a 75 inch Roku TV from them! Top quality news! I love WSAZ!! Good honest people just making a living! Thank you WSAZ !

Breaking news is more like breaking advertisements. Whenever I get a breaking news alert and tap on the notification, it immediately loads a full screen advertisement. The ad dismiss button isn't always in the same place. All I need to see is the breaking news item, not the same ad over and over. Please find a different way to host advertisements or give the ability to turn those off, at least turn them off for breaking news items, such as Covid-19 news.

wsaz has a forced, intentional add loop click pre-roll interception." The station's parent company, Gray Media, deliberately configures the app so that the preview screen acts as a bait mechanism. Whether you actively try to expand the video or passively wait for the 5-second countdown timer to expire, the software triggers an embedded web-wrapper link that intercepts your action, launches a full-screen dynamic third-party ad, and locks your remote until the ad script finishes running.