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REVIEW
Relevant Radio+ brings the Catholic broadcast day to the living room.
The flagship lay-Catholic radio network's webOS app streams the full 24-hour schedule — daily Mass, Rosary, Drew Mariani, Father Simon, Trending with Timmerie — to LG TVs without the phone or kitchen-counter detour.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Relevant Radio+ on LG webOS does one thing — it puts a specific American Catholic talk-and-prayer broadcast on the television — and it does that thing without ornament. The network has been on the AM dial since 2000, on satellite since the mid-2010s, and on the major smart-TV platforms since the webOS / Tizen / Roku app waves of the early 2020s. The webOS build is consistent with the others: a live feed, a schedule grid, a one-week on-demand window, no login.
What’s worth noticing is who this app is for. The Relevant Radio audience skews older, more rural, and more habitual than the typical podcast listener. They want the Family Rosary at the time the schedule says the Family Rosary airs, they want Drew Mariani in the afternoon, and they want it to start when they press the button. The webOS app is built around that listener rather than around an algorithmic discovery surface, and the restraint is the design.
It is the broadcast, on the television, with the schedule that anchors a Catholic listener’s day — and for the specific person who wants exactly that, it lands cleanly. The room-to-improve is real: the on-demand archive is too short, the broader podcast catalogue is not exposed, and search within episodes does not exist. But the core function — live network, full schedule, daily prayer at the daily hour — is delivered without friction, and that is what this audience asks of a TV app.
It is the broadcast, on the television, with the schedule that anchors a Catholic listener's day.
FEATURES
Relevant Radio+ on LG webOS is the smart-TV client for the Relevant Radio network — the national lay-Catholic talk-and-prayer broadcaster operated out of Lincoln Heights, Wisconsin, carried on roughly 200 affiliate stations across the United States. The app streams the network's live feed continuously, with the program schedule rendered as a vertical day-grid: the Family Rosary across the morning, Drew Mariani in the afternoon drive slot, Father Simon Says for catechesis, Go Ask Your Father, Trending with Timmerie, and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy at three.
On-demand playback covers the prior week of major shows. Episodes are browsable by host rather than by topic, which matches how regular listeners actually navigate the network — by voice, not by subject. Audio bitrate appears to top out around 128 kbps stereo, which is appropriate for talk content and unremarkable on living-room speakers.
Magic Remote pointer navigation works cleanly on the schedule grid; ThinQ voice search resolves "Relevant Radio" and individual host names reliably. There is no video component — the screen renders the show artwork, host photo, and a static program-information card while audio plays. No account login is required, which removes the typical smart-TV onboarding step entirely.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The schedule is what carries this app, and the schedule is presented honestly. Catholic talk radio is a habit medium — listeners tune in for the Rosary at the same time their grandmother did, or for the same drive-time show their parish recommends — and the webOS grid surfaces those anchors without burying them under recommendation algorithms or autoplay queues. Tapping "Live" puts you on the live feed in two seconds; tapping a scheduled show name puts you on the most recent episode.
The decision to skip an account wall matters. A 78-year-old daily Mass-goer can put the LG remote down and have Father Simon playing without typing an email address into an on-screen keyboard, and that is the right design call for the audience this network actually serves.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Discovery is thin. The on-demand archive cuts off after about a week, which means a homily or interview a listener heard referenced at parish on Sunday is often already gone by Wednesday. The network's broader podcast catalogue — the Patrick Madrid Show full archive, the Father Rocky homily collection, the special documentaries — is not exposed through the TV app at all, and would be a natural addition.
There is no search within episodes, no chapter markers, and no way to bookmark a moment for later. For a network whose audience often wants to re-listen to a specific catechetical passage or send a clip to a family member, that is a real gap. The video-call-in segments that air on the AM feed are audio-only on the app, which is the correct technical decision but worth knowing.
CONCLUSION
Relevant Radio+ on LG webOS is a faithful, restrained translation of a broadcast that matters to a specific audience. For LG TV owners who already listen to the network in the car or kitchen, putting it on the living-room speakers via the TV is the obvious right install — and the lack of an account wall makes it gift-installable for a parent or grandparent without followup. The discovery gaps are real but not disqualifying for a habit listener. The audience for whom this app is built will use it the way they use the AM dial, and that is exactly what it lets them do.