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Spectrum News: Local Stories app icon

Spectrum News: Local Stories

by Charter Communications · News · Free

Average rating
4.7
50.7K ratings
Ratings
50.7K
On store since
2013
12 yrs 215 d
Languages
2
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Analyst summary

Last verified 5 Aug 2026

Spectrum News: Local Stories is a News application published by Charter Communications. It holds a 4.7-star average across 50,722 public ratings.

It is actively maintained: the most recent update we observed shipped 9 Jul 2026. The listing has been on the store for 12 yrs 215 d.

On the listing it is localized into 2 languages, a 84.5 MB download, runs on iPhone 5s and newer · iPad.

A summary of the measured figures recorded on this page, kept current as the numbers change.
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Position in category

Each bar shows where Spectrum News: Local Stories sits in the distribution of News apps we track. Percentiles are computed over apps with the field observed, not the whole category.

Rating volume 96th pct.
Average rating 72nd pct.
Download size 77th pct.
Price 5th pct.

Distribution computed with the category report · Full category report

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Review intelligence

Medium confidence

Users appreciate the app for news and weather updates, but some report performance and content issues.

Computed from 50 public reviews, 13 Aug 2025–24 Jul 2026 · 5 in the last 30 days. Sentiment and themes are model-derived from the review text, not categories we imposed.

weather Positive · 13
news Positive · 12
app performance Negative · 7
login issues Negative · 3
content quality Mixed · 3
In users’ words · verbatim public App Store reviews, unedited
★★★★★
News and weather go to App
Spectrum News App is my go to App for my local weather forecast and accurate weather radar.
Saltycracker75 · v2.53.1 · 20 Jul 2026
★☆☆☆☆
Where’s the weather information
This app is horrible like your news channel is we are having a bad storm and you guys are reporting news that isn’t necessary at this time not good
nannc56 · v2.53 · 19 Jun 2026

Trajectory: stable · recomputed when new reviews arrive · limitations

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Health timeline

A dated record of what has actually happened to this app — launch, updates, price moves and record-board milestones. Every point is a stored observation, never an estimate.

Daily rating & price tracking began 9 Aug 2026; the growth curve fills in here as observations accrue.

  1. 9 Jul 2026 Update Updated to v2.53.1 The most recent version we observed on the listing.
  2. 9 Dec 2013 Launch Launched on the App Store Original release date stated on the listing.

Dates are read from the listing and from our own daily observations; the rating curve accrues going forward. How we track.

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Listing & advisories

Download size

84.5 MB

Minimum iOS

15.5

Devices supported

iPhone 5s and newer · iPad

Age rating

12+

Advisories

Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes · Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor · Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References · Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information · Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes · Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence

Screenshots

6 on the listing

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Screenshots are hotlinked from the public store listing and belong to the publisher.

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Rankings this app appears on

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Peer set

Peers are well-rated apps in News, selected by category and rating — not by similarity of description, so the comparison is like-for-like on scale.

AppRatingRatingsPrice
Spectrum News: Local Stories 4.7 50.7K Free
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The Atlantic Magazine 4.9 133.4K Free
TrueShort - Stream True Crime 4.9 16.9K Free
The Bulwark 4.9 1,966 Free
Podcast App & Player - Castbox 4.9 198.7K Free
Church News 4.9 85.2K Free
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Questions this record can answer

How was every figure on this page produced?

Each figure is read from public App Store metadata or computed from it, dated to when we read it, and traceable to a stored row. Percentiles, cadence, longevity and sentiment are derived by us; ratings, prices, sizes and dates are taken as the store reports them.

Why can the star average and recent opinion disagree?

The star average is cumulative over the app’s whole life, so recent opinion barely moves it. Any sentiment figure we compute reads only recent review text, which is why it turns first. Treat a divergence as an early indicator, not a verdict.

What can this page not tell you?

Downloads, revenue, active users, subscription pricing inside the app, and anything about security or data handling. None of those are visible in public store metadata, so we do not estimate them.

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Provenance

Source
Public App Store listing metadata and public customer reviews.
Collection window
Last read 5 Aug 2026. Listing re-read daily; reviews re-read on a slower cadence.
Derived figures
Percentiles, update cadence, longevity and sentiment are computed by us, not supplied by the store.
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