# WJTV 12 - News for Jackson, MS

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id438506974](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id438506974)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id438506974`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Media General
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (4,131 ratings)
- **Version:** 510.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-03
- **First published:** 2011-05-24
- **Size:** 77 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wjtv-12-news-for-jackson-ms/id438506974)
- **Website:** [http://wjtv.com/](http://wjtv.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.nexstar.tv/privacy-policy](https://www.nexstar.tv/privacy-policy)

## Description

**WJTV 12 - News for Jackson, MS** delivers the latest local news, sports coverage, and weather updates for Jackson, Mississippi, and the surrounding metro area. Read in-depth articles and watch video reports from trusted WJTV journalists covering stories in your community.

Plan your day with detailed weather conditions, live severe-weather alerts, and an interactive radar map. Opt in to breaking-news notifications to stay informed about important developments as they happen.

## Rankings

- #28,376 — Overall

## Review summary

The app is praised for timely local news, broad coverage, and weather alerts with an easy-to-use interface, but users report recurring video playback issues and ads, plus occasional gaps where local content isn’t available and unreliable live streams. Overall, strong content and usability countered by reliability and ad-related complaints.

### Pros

- Keeps you up to date with local, national, and world news
- Reliable local news coverage
- Useful weather alerts and accurate weather reports
- Easy to use and consistently up-to-date
- Broad news scope beyond local coverage

### Cons

- Video playback/streaming problems (videos won't load or play on some devices)
- Intrusive pop-up ads
- Occasional absence of local news in the feed (shows only national news)
- Live TV stream is hard to locate or unreliable to load

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