Roku / news_and_weather / JET 24/7 WJET ABC 24 ERIE NEWS
REVIEW
JET 24 on Roku puts Erie's ABC affiliate on the living-room TV.
WJET's Roku channel is a serviceable second screen for the Erie, Pennsylvania market — free, ad-supported, and built around the same Nexstar template that powers dozens of local-news channels on the platform.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
JET 24/7 WJET ABC 24 Erie News
NEXSTAR BROADCASTING, INC.
OUR SCORE
6.8
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Local-station Roku channels are a strange corner of the streaming-app world. They exist because Nexstar, Sinclair, and a handful of other broadcast groups quietly stood up Roku presences for every station they own, using a shared template and a shared CMS pipeline, so that a viewer in Erie or Amarillo or Quad Cities can pull up their local ABC affiliate the same way they pull up Netflix. The channels are not destinations. They are utilities.
JET 24/7 — the Roku channel for WJET-TV, the ABC affiliate in Erie, Pennsylvania — is one of those utilities. It is published by Nexstar Broadcasting, free to install, ad-supported, and updated alongside the station’s website. There is no original streaming content here, no national feed, no personality-led programming distinct from the broadcast. It is the local 6 o’clock news, the weather segment, and the recent-clip archive, made available on a 4K TV without antenna or cable.
That’s a narrow brief, and the channel meets it on the narrow brief. Whether that’s enough to warrant a permanent slot on your Roku Home depends entirely on whether you live close enough to Erie to care.
If you live in Erie and want the 6 o'clock news on the big TV without antenna or cable, this is the cheapest way to get it.
FEATURES
The channel surfaces JET 24's local newscasts, weather segments, and on-demand clips from WJET-TV, the ABC affiliate covering Erie, Pennsylvania and the surrounding northwest-PA / western-NY market. Navigation follows the Nexstar local-station template seen across the company's Roku roster: a top-level grid of categories — top stories, weather, sports, and replays — with each tile drilling into a vertical list of clips.
Playback is ad-supported with pre-roll and mid-roll commercial breaks. There is no sign-in, no subscription, and no in-app purchase. The channel is free to install and free to use. Roku's voice remote handles search across the catalogue alongside the standard directional-pad navigation.
Live-stream availability and clip refresh cadence are tied to what WJET's web team publishes — when the local newsroom posts a story to wjet.com, it surfaces here on roughly the same schedule.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For the slice of the audience this is built for — Erie-market cord-cutters who want the local ABC newscast on their TV without an antenna — it does the one job it needs to do. The clips are the same ones the station runs on broadcast, the weather segment is the same weather segment, and the Roku channel gets you to it without a browser, a phone, or a cable subscription.
Free is the right price for what this is. A local-news channel that asked for a sign-in or charged a subscription for ad-supported clips would be a much harder sell.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The Nexstar template is the template — and like most stations using it, JET 24's channel looks and behaves the way local-station Roku channels did five years ago. Tiles are dense, thumbnail quality varies clip-to-clip, and the on-demand library is shallow compared with what you'd expect from a national news app. Older clips age out faster than some viewers will want.
Channel design is the weakest link. There's no personalization, no follow-a-topic, no resume-where-you-left-off across sessions. If you close the channel halfway through a weather segment, you start the next session at the top of the grid.
CONCLUSION
Install this if you live in the Erie market and want the JET 24 newscast on your Roku TV without antenna hassle. Skip it if you're outside northwest Pennsylvania — the catalogue is local-by-design and won't be relevant. For the audience it serves, it's a fine free utility; for anyone else, there's nothing here.