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Gray Television Group
For local residents and commuters requiring real-time, location-specific weather alerts and regional news.
Known for
For local residents and commuters requiring real-time, location-specific weather alerts and regional news.
Delivering hyper-local weather and news updates to regional US communities through station-branded mobile experiences.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 114Last updated
Hawaii News Now Weather
v6.1.601
4mo ago
Primary focus
Hyper-local news and weather broadcasting
Scale
scale-up
Target audience
Local residents and commuters requiring real-time, location-specific weather alerts and regional news.
Origin
A major television broadcasting company managing a network of local stations across the United States.
Executed 274 updates across 76 active apps in the last 6 months, demonstrating a highly active and centralized development lifecycle.
114 apps analysed
Analysis in progress
The 13abc Weather App gives you the latest weather for our viewing region.
Single-market publisher — every app ships only to United States.
Based on 27 of 114 apps with localized market data — more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
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Positive apps
1
Neutral / mixed
0
Negative apps
68/100
Avg sentiment score
As a Tegna-owned local news powerhouse, it represents the gold standard for regional broadcast-to-mobile conversion, directly mirroring the target's business model.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
A cable-provider-backed news app that excels at bridging the gap between traditional television and digital-first news consumption.
A strong regional competitor that demonstrates how to maintain high user engagement through localized community reporting.
Provides a secondary data point for the Disney local news template, demonstrating how to scale regional content effectively.
The industry benchmark for live news streaming and breaking news notification speed.
An aggregator-first model that dominates the local news space through algorithmic content curation rather than broadcast production.
A specialized, high-utility app that captures the 'emergency information' segment of the local news market.
Continues to iterate on the 'Full Coverage' feature, which remains the most significant threat to traditional news app discovery.
