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Local News
Every App Comrade review tagged Local News, across every platform.
WOWK+ is the Tri-State newsroom Roku owners actually use.
Nexstar's CBS affiliate for Huntington and Charleston ports its newscasts and weather radar to Roku with the same template the chain ships everywhere — which is fine, until the storm cell crosses the Big Sandy.
MAY 11, 2026
WBOY+ is a competent local-news app for a market that needed one.
Clarksburg's NBC affiliate puts its newscasts, weather radar, and high-school sports on Roku without overreaching. The result is unremarkable in the way local TV apps should be.
MAY 11, 2026
WCBD News 2 turns the Charleston NBC affiliate into a competent Roku habit.
Nexstar's Lowcountry station ships the standard local-news Roku template — live stream, on-demand clips, weather radar — and the local reporting carries it further than the channel does.
MAY 11, 2026
WJTV+ is a competent Jackson news feed living inside Nexstar's template.
The CBS affiliate for Mississippi's capital ships a Roku channel that does the basics — live newscasts, on-demand clips, weather — and almost nothing beyond what Nexstar's group framework provides every sister station.
MAY 11, 2026
WBBJ Jackson on Roku puts West Tennessee's ABC affiliate on the big screen.
The Bahakel-owned ABC 7 channel brings Jackson, TN local news, weather, and sports to Roku — free, ad-supported, and tightly scoped to the West Tennessee viewing area it actually serves.
MAY 11, 2026
NCWLIFE on Roku is local news that knows its zip codes.
A Wick Communications channel covering North-Central Washington — Wenatchee, Chelan, Okanogan, the orchards in between. Small market, narrow scope, and that is the point.
MAY 11, 2026
WJBF6+ brings Augusta's ABC affiliate to the living-room screen.
Nexstar's Tizen channel for WJBF-TV — the ABC affiliate covering Augusta, Aiken, and the wider CSRA — delivers local newscasts and a rotating slate of FAST channels to Samsung TV owners who used to reach for the antenna.
MAY 11, 2026
WSYR+ brings Syracuse's NewsChannel 9 to the Samsung TV input list.
Nexstar's Tizen build for the central New York ABC affiliate delivers the 6 and 11 o'clock newscasts, weather, and a thin lineup of replay segments to a free 24/7 channel on the home screen.
MAY 11, 2026
WDTN+ brings Dayton's NBC affiliate to the living-room TV.
Nexstar's local-news streaming app for Samsung Tizen delivers WDTN Channel 2 newscasts, weather updates, and 24/7 streams to the Miami Valley audience with the kind of competent, no-surprises build that defines the broadcaster's TV-app fleet.
MAY 11, 2026
WHNT19+ brings Huntsville's CBS affiliate to the Samsung TV — competently, narrowly.
Nexstar's local-news streaming app for WHNT-TV, Huntsville's longtime CBS affiliate, delivers North Alabama newscasts and weather on demand to Tizen. It does exactly what local TV apps are supposed to do, and nothing more.
MAY 11, 2026
WTEN+ brings Albany's ABC affiliate to the big screen with workmanlike polish.
Nexstar's free streaming app for News10 ABC pipes Albany-area newscasts, weather, and replays onto Samsung TVs. Useful for cord-cutters in the Capital Region, anonymous for everyone else.
MAY 11, 2026
WBOY+ on Samsung Tizen is a competent local-news lifeline for North Central West Virginia.
Nexstar's ABC affiliate for the Clarksburg–Fairmont–Morgantown DMA brings live newscasts, weather radar, and on-demand clips to Samsung TVs. The Tizen build is a port of the Roku original — same content, slightly slower navigation.
MAY 11, 2026
WTRF+ brings Wheeling's CBS affiliate to the Samsung TV with respectable polish.
Nexstar's Tizen build of WTRF 7News delivers local Ohio Valley newscasts, regional weather, and CBS-network filler on demand — useful inside its DMA, irrelevant outside it.
MAY 11, 2026
WCBD+ on Samsung Tizen is the Charleston NBC affiliate's FAST-channel pitch.
Nexstar's Lowcountry station ships a Tizen build that leans on the 24/7 News2+ FAST channel more than the Roku sibling does, with Bixby voice search wired in and the same shallow on-demand library underneath.
MAY 11, 2026
WFRV+ brings the Green Bay CBS affiliate to Samsung TVs with workmanlike polish.
Nexstar's free local-news streamer for WFRV Channel 5 covers Northeast Wisconsin with 24/7 newscasts, weather, and Storm Team coverage. The Tizen build is exactly what a small-market affiliate app should be — and not a frame more.
MAY 11, 2026
CBS 42+ puts Birmingham's tornado coverage on the right screen.
Nexstar's free Roku channel for WIAT 42 carries the central Alabama CBS newscasts, the Storm Team weather block, and live cut-ins during severe weather. In tornado country, that's not a feature — it's the entire reason to install it.
MAY 10, 2026
WTWO+ turns Terre Haute's NBC 2 into a quiet Roku tile that does its job.
Nexstar's free, ad-supported channel for the Wabash Valley delivers local newscasts, weather, and Storm Tracker radar straight to the TV — no cable login, no fuss.
MAY 10, 2026
OzarksFirst+ brings KOLR's Springfield newscast to the living-room TV.
Nexstar's CBS affiliate in southwest Missouri ships its local news, weather, and sports onto Roku in a free, ad-supported channel. It works the way a local-news channel should work, and not much more than that.
MAY 10, 2026
FOX21+ KXRM gives Colorado Springs a TV-shaped news loop that finally fits the room.
Nexstar's Pikes Peak FOX affiliate ships a free Roku channel that does the local-news job — weather, traffic, the 9pm newscast on replay — without asking you to learn anything new.
MAY 10, 2026
KXNEWS+ does the one job a local-news channel has to do.
Nexstar's Bismarck CBS affiliate ships a free, ad-supported Roku channel built around the 5pm and 10pm newscasts. It is small, focused, and exactly what a North Dakota household actually wants on the TV.
MAY 10, 2026
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.
MAY 10, 2026
OurQC+ is the local-news channel WHBF needed five years ago.
Nexstar's CBS 4 Quad Cities now has a free Roku channel that streams its newscasts, weather radar, and KLJB/Fox 18 packages. The bones are right; the polish isn't there yet.
MAY 10, 2026
KREX+ does the local-news job, and not much else.
Nexstar's CBS 5 channel for Grand Junction puts Western Slope newscasts and weather on the TV for free. The shell is a stock template, the ads are heavy, and that is roughly the deal you sign up for.
MAY 10, 2026
FourStates+ does the local-news job and almost nothing else.
Nexstar's Roku channel for KSNF NBC 16 in Joplin gives the four-state region its newscast on the big screen. Beyond that, it's a thin wrapper around a livestream and a clip reel.
MAY 10, 2026
KTAL Now is a competent local-news channel built for the four counties that already watch it.
Nexstar's free 24/7 stream of NBC 6 and Fox 33 newscasts gives Shreveport-Bossier-Texarkana viewers a cord-cut path to the same anchors they already know. Outside that DMA, there is nothing here for you.
MAY 10, 2026
Doug Heady Weather is a hyperlocal channel built for one corner of four states.
A KOAM-TV chief meteorologist's standalone Roku channel, aimed at Southwest Missouri, Northwest Arkansas, Northeast Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. Outside that footprint there is almost no reason to install it.
MAY 10, 2026
Southern TN Weather is exactly as niche as it sounds, and that is the point.
A hyper-local Roku channel covering seven Middle Tennessee counties with radar, alerts, and a small in-house meteorology team. If you live in Bedford or Coffee County, that is unusually valuable. Anywhere else, it is a curiosity.
MAY 10, 2026
KGET+ brings Bakersfield's NBC newscasts to the Samsung TV without a cable bill.
Nexstar's free ad-supported app for KGET 17 collapses the local-news antenna ritual into a Tizen tile — useful in Kern County, irrelevant outside it, and thin on anything beyond newscasts.
MAY 10, 2026
GoElizabethNJ TV brings a small-city tourism reel to the living room.
The Elizabeth Destination Marketing Organization ports its visitor-guide content to Samsung's smart TV lineup. Useful if you live in Union County. A curiosity if you don't.
MAY 10, 2026
OzarksFirst+ brings Springfield's local news to Samsung TVs without much ceremony.
Nexstar's KOLR/KOZL FAST channel for the Ozarks lands on Tizen as a free, signed-in livestream-and-VOD app aimed squarely at viewers in the Springfield-Branson DMA.
MAY 10, 2026
KXNEWS+ brings Bismarck local news to Samsung TVs without an antenna.
Nexstar's free streaming companion to KX Television in western North Dakota — live newscasts, Studio 701, and regional programming on Tizen, with no cable login required.
MAY 10, 2026
FOX21+ puts Colorado Springs local news on the Samsung TV without a login.
Nexstar's free streaming companion for KXRM brings the FOX21 newscast, live weather, and on-demand segments to Tizen — useful in-market, niche everywhere else.
MAY 10, 2026
CBS 42+ brings Birmingham's nightly newscast to the smart TV without much ceremony.
Nexstar's local-affiliate streaming app lands on Tizen with live WIAT, on-demand clips, and a weather feed. It's a thin slice of regional TV done competently — and almost no one outside central Alabama needs it.
MAY 10, 2026
JET 247 puts Erie's ABC affiliate on the Samsung TV home row.
Nexstar's Tizen port of the WJET 24/7 newsroom feed — same Erie, Pennsylvania local-news stream, now sitting one click from Live TV on a Samsung set.
MAY 10, 2026
WMBB+ brings Panama City's ABC affiliate to the Samsung TV home row.
Nexstar's Tizen companion app for WMBB News 13 streams local Panhandle newscasts, weather, and on-demand segments straight to the living-room set — useful in a hurricane season, thin the rest of the year.
MAY 10, 2026
WNCT9+ puts Eastern North Carolina's CBS newscast on the smart TV.
Nexstar's free streaming companion to WNCT-TV Greenville lands on Samsung Tizen with the 9 On Your Side livestream, on-demand clips, and a weather feed tuned to coastal Carolina.
MAY 10, 2026
LouisianaFirst+ brings the Nexstar local-news bundle to Samsung TVs.
A free, ad-supported Tizen channel for Louisiana's Nexstar affiliates — live newscasts, weather, sports, and on-demand clips, with no login and no cable subscription.
MAY 10, 2026
FourStates+ is hyperlocal TV for a region most apps forget.
Nexstar's free streaming app for KSNF and KODE turns Joplin–Pittsburg's broadcast lineup into on-demand viewing. Useful if you live there. Niche if you don't.
MAY 10, 2026
Messenger-Inquirer TV is a Kentucky local-news channel built for the people who already read the paper.
Paxton Media Group's Owensboro paper put a Roku channel on the store. The audience is a few western-Kentucky counties. Within those bounds, it does what it should.
MAY 9, 2026