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REVIEW
HIS Radio+ brings the Greenville Christian-FM sound to LG OLED.
The Radio Training Network's contemporary-Christian flagship — built around the WHIS / WHRT / WAYR Carolinas signal — lands on webOS as a competent audio-first listening shell.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
HIS Radio+ is the TV-app extension of the Greenville-anchored FM signal that has carried Radio Training Network’s contemporary-Christian-AC format across the western Carolinas for years. On LG webOS, the proposition is narrow and honest: tune in the same live feed listeners already know from the car radio, plus a small on-demand archive of partner-ministry teachings. There is no attempt to reinvent the listening surface — and given the audience, no need to.
The webOS build runs the same playback stack as the JOY FM+ and WAFJ+ apps RTN’s peer Christian-radio operators ship. The differences are in the branding and the regional content mix — HIS Radio’s playlist skews slightly younger than WAFJ’s adult-contemporary lean, and the sermon archive draws from a different set of Greenville and Spartanburg-area churches. For a listener who already knows the call signs and the morning-show voices, that is the entire value proposition.
What is missing — discovery, personalisation, song favouriting, account continuity — is missing across the entire faith-radio-on-TV category, not just here. The right benchmark is not Spotify on webOS; it is the rest of the regional Christian-FM TV-app cohort. Inside that cohort, HIS Radio+ is competent, free, and exactly as ambitious as it needs to be.
HIS Radio+ on webOS is a regional FM station's house-app — useful exactly to the audience already tuned in.
FEATURES
HIS Radio+ on LG webOS is the TV-app build of Radio Training Network's contemporary-Christian station family, anchored by the Greenville, South Carolina FM signal that extends through the western Carolinas. The app streams the live broadcast feed at full quality, with the station's standard rotation — Hillsong, Bethel, Lauren Daigle, Casting Crowns, Crowder, and the rest of the contemporary-Christian-AC playlist.
Beyond the main live stream, the app exposes the network's HD2 / online-only sub-channels (typically a worship-focused and a kid-friendly variant), recent on-demand sermons from partner ministries, and the standard now-playing card with track and artist metadata. Playback runs in the audio background — webOS keeps the stream alive when you switch to another input or app, which matters more on TVs than on phones.
Discovery is minimal by design. There is no search, no skip-to-next-song, no podcast-style chapter index — it is a tuner with a station-branded skin and an on-demand archive bolted on. The remote-control surface is small enough that Magic Remote pointing is overkill; directional-pad navigation works fine.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The live stream is reliable and the audio quality is what listeners expect from RTN — clean AAC encoding, low buffer rates on a fixed home Wi-Fi connection. Track metadata updates fast enough to be useful, which matters for an audience that ID-shazams worship songs from the car radio.
The on-demand sermon archive is the quiet win. RTN aggregates content from member churches across the Greenville / Spartanburg / Asheville corridor, so listeners who heard a teaching driving home can find the full version on the TV later that evening. That use case is genuinely well-served.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Discovery and personalisation are absent. There is no skip-back, no song-favouriting, no listener-account integration — the app does not remember what you played or let you build a queue. For a 2026 TV listening surface, that is thin even by faith-radio-app standards. The JOY FM+ and WAFJ+ variants on the same platform face the same gap.
Visually, the TV layout leans on the FM-station logo and a single rotating background image. There are no album-art tiles, no on-air-host cards, no community-event surface. Listeners who want any of that go to the phone app or the station website instead.
CONCLUSION
HIS Radio+ on webOS is a focused house-app for the Carolinas contemporary-Christian audience that already knows the signal and the lineup. For RTN-station listeners who want the live feed and the sermon archive on the living-room speakers, the app does its job. Listeners who want broader discovery — multi-station roaming, song-favouriting, queue control — will find more depth in a national service like K-LOVE.