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REVIEW
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.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Local TV news on a smart-TV platform is a geography product more than a software product. JET 247 is Nexstar’s Samsung Tizen channel for WJET, the ABC affiliate covering Erie, Pennsylvania and the corner of the country where Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York all meet. If you live in that DMA and own a Samsung set, the app earns its slot on the home row. If you don’t, there’s no version of this product that’s meant for you.
Nexstar has been pushing its 200-plus owned stations onto every connected-TV platform individually since 2022 — Roku first, Fire TV next, then the smart-TV operating systems. The Tizen port of the WJET feed arrived at the end of March 2026, roughly three years after the Roku build went live for Erie viewers. The lateness is typical: Tizen sits below Roku and Fire TV in Nexstar’s release priority because Samsung’s US market share, while meaningful, isn’t where local-news viewing concentrates.
The app itself is exactly what it should be — a single live channel, a short on-demand row, a weather strip — with the Tizen-specific roughness that comes from a station-engineering team porting the same SDK build to a fourth platform. The live stream is the product. Everything else is scaffolding. For Erie viewers on Samsung sets, that’s enough.
Local news on a smart TV is a geography product, not an app product. JET 247 is a working version of that idea for one Pennsylvania market.
FEATURES
JET 247 is the Samsung Tizen build of WJET-TV's round-the-clock streaming channel — Erie, Pennsylvania's ABC affiliate, owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group. The app launches straight into a live video player carrying the station's 24-hour news rotation: scheduled morning, midday, evening, and late newscasts when they air, and a looping mix of weather, recent reporter packages, and syndicated Nexstar content in between.
Beyond the live feed, the surface is minimal. A short on-demand row carries the most recent newscasts and individual story segments, organised by date rather than topic. A weather card pulls current conditions and the seven-day forecast for Erie and the surrounding counties — Crawford, Warren, Chautauqua. There's no account, no login, no personalisation. Free, ad-supported, region-agnostic (the app works on any Samsung TV anywhere; the content is locked to one market).
Released to the Samsung TV store at the end of March 2026 — months behind the Roku build of the same channel, which has been live on Erie-area Roku sets since 2023.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The live feed plays. For a station-branded Tizen channel from a US local broadcaster, that's the bar, and Nexstar clears it. The 1080p stream from WJET's encoder holds up on a 2024+ QLED panel, the audio levels sit where they should, and the EPG-style schedule strip across the bottom of the player tells you what's airing now and next without forcing a menu.
Putting the channel on Samsung's home row matters in Erie specifically. Samsung TVs have a meaningful share of the Pennsylvania-Ohio market, and getting WJET one click from the input picker — rather than buried inside a third-party news aggregator — is exactly the distribution play Nexstar has been running across its 200+ owned-and-operated stations since the streaming shift began.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Tizen-platform polish lags Roku and Apple TV builds across the Nexstar fleet, and JET 247 is no exception. Cold-launch from the Samsung home is slow — five to seven seconds to first frame on a 2023 QLED — and the on-demand grid scroll occasionally drops keypresses on the standard Samsung remote. The weather card pulls in cleanly but never refreshes mid-session; closing and reopening the app is the only way to get current conditions after the first load.
More structurally: outside the Erie DMA, the app has nothing for you. There's no national feed, no syndicated Nexstar news option, no way to pick a different market. Samsung TV owners in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, or Buffalo who install this expecting a generic local-news product hit a wall.
CONCLUSION
Install JET 247 on a Samsung TV in Erie or its border counties — it's the cleanest way to keep the local ABC affiliate one remote-press from any input. Outside that geography, the app has no use case, and the Tizen build trails the Roku version on launch speed and remote responsiveness. Watch for whether Nexstar consolidates its station apps into a single national shell with market-picker; the current per-station-per-platform model is expensive to maintain and confusing to find.