NBC4 Columbus
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| NBC4 Columbus |   10TV WBNS Columbus, Ohio |   WHIO News |   Cleveland News from WKYC |   WLWT News 5 - Cincinnati, Ohio |   FOX 8 News |   WDTN 2 News |   Columbus Dispatch: Local News |   WSYX ABC6 |   News 5 Cleveland WEWS |   FOX 28 Columbus | |
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| Rating / 5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| Reviews | 7.9K | 27K | 21K | 17K | 4.9K | 3.5K | 2.6K | 2.5K | 638 | 297 | 105 |
| Released | 2010 | 2020 | 2013 | 2011 | 2012 | 2009 | 2011 | 2016 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 |
| Monthly price | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $24.99 | — | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $19.99 | — | — | — |
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NBC4 Columbus reviews
4.6 out of 5, based on 7,913 reviews.
What people like
- News is current and timely.
- Reporters speak clearly.
- Good for local Ohio updates.
What they complain about
- Ads block content and interrupt reading.
- App crashes and freezes constantly.
- Too many notifications wake you up.
Channel 4 News
News always current with a wide variety of messages given. Given in a timely manner. Clearly spoken.
Garbage
Literally can’t stream any video on the phone. Shows zero video even though it says live. In the off chance it starts the video it’s loaded with online only ads and stops working within a minute or 2 with a playback error. Avoid it.
Too many notifications
The app is good overall but there are way too many notifications. Sports and weather events show up in news notifications even if sports, Buckeyes and weather is turned off. I liked the weather notifications but not when they wake me before 7am. So I had to turn them off. Only emergencies should interrupt sleep. With all that turned off I still received 96 notifications in a week!
Weird, Scammy, creepy advertisement from “sponsored” content all the time.
This app has scam advertisements, weird, creepy pictures from “sponsored” content there’s NEVER “normal” advertising content all the time. It’s enough to make people choose different news app.
Doesn’t stream live news
I was hoping I could watch the local news live. It’s streaming from the evening before. Not what I was hoping since we canceled our cable and trying not to turn on tv with antenna and wake the kids.
Least favorite site on phone
Do not like audio reports start without selecting...least favorite site to use
Ads lol
More screen space dedicated to ads than content. No thanks.
Terrible App
Teasers with little to no content. Election coverage is the worst, not in alphabetical order. Cannot find results from my county. Widgets are the same and are stories up to nearly a week old. I liked NBC 4 news but not this app. Also ads pop up when trying to find a story or information, so you get rerouted
Still get Buckeye notifications even after turning them off
Why have an option to turn off OSU notifications if I’m still inundated with them after turning them off??
4
Living in Florida and missing Ohio, always check out your news!😎
Your APP Sucks!
Constantly crashes and locks up your phone, do better!
App is horribly user-unfriendly
I think 4 has overtaken 10 in the last decade for best news coverage, but ABC 6 and 10TV have a far and away winner with their mobile apps, despite their station owners sucking the life from their respective newscasts. I love NBC 4, but this app is riddled with performance-hogging advertisements and slow, unresponsive menus and scrolling. The feed is more like an embedded website than an actual app interface. Everything runs horribly and desperately needs rebuilt to be sustainable for a mobile environment.
Could be better
I use the app frequently to catch up on local and world news. The large number of ads is distracting and the app tends to freeze easily or shut down entirely. I’d be willing to pay for an app with no ads that worked reliably.
Spam App
Basically the news and info is hidden under layers and layers of pop up ads and odd click bait. It’s like telling your parents to stay away from a certain clickbait website. That’s this app. It’s pretty bad. Terrible in fact.
Stops audio from my audiobooks
Can’t read the news while listening to audible. Very frustrating.
Ok app terrible ads
I hate the ads at the bottom of the articles. There must be a million ways I can tell if I have cancer and each one is laid out in an ad at the bottom of the page. Maybe they could find come classier advertisements.
Tornado Warning Ads
My county was just under a tornado warning. I had to watch a 30 second ad to even get to the live coverage. Deleting this app and going back to 10TV where I was able to watch a live feed immediately.
To many glitches/problems
Has news stories yes, but the app frequently (every time open it) freezes, doesn’t load, or videos won’t play. The weather portion on app is useless. It never loads and when does, if you try and look at anything it doesn’t work. Seems all the news apps for Columbus Ohio don’t work. It’s not just channel 4’s app. It’s 6 and 10 as well. I’ll give 10’s app some credit, their weather at least seems to work most of the time.
Keeps crashing
Good news, but keeps crashing/freezing. Many typos, very poor for a professional news station.
Literally Worthless
Who knew an app could actually be this bad? NBC 4 is the best news channel in Columbus, and they definitely have the budget to fix this pathetic app. When a company ignores something for this long, they are simply showing that they just do not care. I had this app years ago and it was terrible. I decided to download and try it again, under the assumption they had improved it. No…. It’s MUCH worse now. It’s unusable now. You open the app, it asks if you want to receive notifications (which is a joke because the app doesn’t even work), then it takes you to a screen showing the summary of the weather. You cannot scroll or go to either of the other two sections across the bottom. NBC4 is clearly way better than CBS, FOX, and ABC here in Columbus, but they simply can’t be bothered to fix their app. When a company display such laziness and apathy, it begins to put a bad taste in your mouth. There is just no excuse, in the year 2025, for a company to have an unusable app/website, especially a company the size of NBC. Do better, guys…. Seriously.. Zero stars.
Updates made app not work
Ever since the app was updated a week ago, I have had troubles using it. The app crashes in the middle of a story, you can’t get back to the stories if you click on a story. Now when you open the app, it says to swipe up to get rid of the ad but that doesn’t work and I end up having to close the app. If this doesn’t resolve soon I am going to have to look at other local news apps.
Missed “Today’s show”
I missed Today’s show this morning, why was that not aired ? I keep writing the nick name and you keep saying ‘taken ‘ which can not be right .
Below Average App
When reading an article and you get to the end of it, you have to rescroll all the way back to top in order to get a back arrow. And you can’t just flick it to get to top, you have to scroll one screen at a time. Not as easy to use as other Columbus area news apps.
Notifications Broken
I have all notifications disabled except for weather yet I still get news notifications daily. Running most up to date version of iOS on iPhone 11 Pro Max. Please fix these issues.
App not well designed
The app is completely unusable on iPad. In landscape mode, the video will cover the entire screen making reading the text of the article impossible. In portrait mode, the text does not resize to fit in the screen and cuts off text on the right and left sides again making it impossible to actually read an article. And of course ads, ads, ads everywhere also making the app a very unpleasant experience.
Automatic playing of videos
I would much rather choose to play the corresponding video to the news story than to have it automatically play when I click on the article.
Won’t work
I had this app and needed to reinstall it. When I did it won’t open. You just get two screens. One asking is you want news updates. The other asking the same about weather. Don’t matter how you answer it will go no further.
Please stop defaulting the video to play
It was working for awhile where you could just read and not watch video. Please put that back in. Thanks!
Don’t get waste your time
These people don’t update this for days. Channels 6 & 10 are on point usually.. you can for get it, the other channels update there sites. You’ll read about stuff on 6 & 10 and maybe 3 or 4 days later you’ll see it on 4. I do not watch the weather I got no clue about it.
Lopsided news
I get frustrated with NBC 4 because I’m often seeing items on national and international news stations about Important events in Ohio, that are not reported on by NBC due to party affiliation issues. I keep trying to come back to the site, but I’m Probably going to delete the app, again, because I can’t rely on it to tell me about the important issues in my state.
NBC4 Columbus FAQ
- Is NBC4 Columbus free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 1 country it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does NBC4 Columbus have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to NBC4 Columbus?
- 10TV WBNS Columbus, Ohio (4.7 from 26,570 reviews), WHIO News (4.6 from 21,188 reviews) and Cleveland News from WKYC (4.7 from 17,237 reviews).
NBC4 Columbus download
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NBC4 Columbus sells in 1 country. It was released 16 years and 2 months ago, on 9 Jul 2010. It holds a 4.6 rating from 7,913 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does NBC4 Columbus make?
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