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REVIEW
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.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
WJBF-TV has been Augusta’s ABC affiliate since 1953, and for most of that history the way to watch it was the same way you watched any local station — through an antenna, then through a cable box, then through whatever your provider’s set-top happened to be. WJBF6+ is what a local TV station does in 2026 when the antenna is no longer the default. It ships an app, and it ships it for the screen people actually own.
The channel is a Nexstar production. Nexstar Media Group owns WJBF along with roughly 200 other local stations across the United States, and the company has standardised the Tizen channel template — same grid, same navigation, same ad-load — across most of them. What changes is the logo, the call letters, the meteorologists’ faces, and the local-news video feeding the on-demand rows. For viewers in the Central Savannah River Area, that local layer is the entire point.
Nothing about WJBF6+ is meant to be discovered by a national audience. It is meant to be installed by someone in Aiken or Evans or North Augusta who used to watch channel 6 on cable, has stopped paying for cable, owns a Samsung TV, and would still like to see the 6 PM news. That viewer is well served. The Nexstar template is competent, the price is zero, and the storm coverage shows up when it matters.
WJBF6+ is what a local TV station does in 2026 when the antenna is no longer the default — it ships an app, and it ships it for the screen people actually own.
FEATURES
WJBF6+ is the Samsung TV (Tizen) channel for WJBF-TV NewsChannel 6, the ABC affiliate serving Augusta, Georgia and Aiken, South Carolina. The station is owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group, which ships the same template app across most of its 200-plus local stations under per-market branding.
The channel surfaces on-demand video-on-demand clips from WJBF's newsroom — top stories, weather updates from the Storm Team 6 meteorologists, Sports Zone segments, and the long-running Jennie show — alongside a livestream of select newscasts when carriage agreements permit. A row of free ad-supported streaming (FAST) channels rounds out the lineup: NewsNation, Rewind TV, Antenna TV, and a handful of Nexstar-operated entertainment streams.
No account is required. The channel launches into a category grid, remembers the last category visited between sessions, and supports the standard Tizen remote (D-pad navigation, OK to play, back to exit). Ads are inserted in standard 15-to-30-second pre-roll and mid-roll positions; there is no paid tier to remove them.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The pitch is unsentimental and it works: a Samsung TV owner in the CSRA can install WJBF6+, hit play, and get the same local newsroom they grew up watching on channel 6 without paying for cable, renting a digital antenna, or fishing out a phone. For weather coverage during severe-storm season — which in Augusta means most of the spring — that matters. Storm Team 6 segments load quickly and the most recent forecast clip is usually one click from the home grid.
The FAST-channel bundle is a quiet bonus. NewsNation in particular fills a national-news slot that an over-the-air ABC schedule does not, and Antenna TV's classic-sitcom rotation gives the channel reasons to be open beyond the 6 PM news block. None of it is destination viewing, but none of it pretends to be.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The Nexstar template shows through. WJBF6+ shares its layout, navigation logic, and ad-loading behaviour with every other Nexstar Tizen channel, which means the local-station personality lives entirely in the logo and the video metadata. Stations with stronger digital teams (WGN-TV, KTLA) feel materially different on phones; on Tizen the apps are nearly indistinguishable. Search is absent — to find a specific clip the viewer scrolls a category until it appears, which is fine for the most-recent newscast and frustrating for anything older than a week.
Livestream availability is partial and unpredictable. ABC network programming is not streamed for affiliate-rights reasons, so the live feed sometimes carries local news and sometimes drops to a holding card. A clear schedule of when the livestream is hot versus cold would solve most viewer confusion; the current app has no such schedule.
CONCLUSION
Install WJBF6+ if you live in the Augusta or Aiken viewing area and your Samsung TV is the screen you actually watch. The newsroom's video is here for free, the weather coverage is genuinely useful during storm season, and the FAST-channel side trip is a fair trade for the template-app feel. Travellers and non-CSRA viewers can skip — the value is entirely local.