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REVIEW
La Radio Canaria puts the islands' public radio on the living-room TV.
The Canary Islands' regional public broadcaster ports its radio stream to Samsung TVs. A simple Tizen channel for Spanish-speaking Canarians who want the home station playing in the background.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
La Radio Canaria
INTERACTVTY, INC.
OUR SCORE
6.8
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
La Radio Canaria is one of those apps that exists because regional public broadcasters in Spain have, over the past few years, quietly built out their smart-TV presence. RTVC — Radiotelevisión Canaria — is the autonomous-community broadcaster for the Canary Islands, and this Tizen channel puts its radio service on any Samsung TV in the archipelago, or in any Canarian household elsewhere that wants the home station running.
The app is narrow on purpose. It’s a single live stream — Radio Autonómica de Canarias — wrapped in a Tizen-native player. No account, no signup, no payment, no on-demand catalogue. Launch it, and the station plays. For Canarians who want their regional public radio in the living-room background while they cook or read, the proposition is clean.
Regional public radio on a TV is a niche use case, and La Radio Canaria fills it without trying to be more than it is. That’s both its limitation and the reason it works: a Samsung TV owner in Las Palmas or Tenerife who wants Onda Insular running through the soundbar can do exactly that, in three remote clicks, without the phone-app friction that has kept this audience off the TV until now.
Regional public radio on a TV is a niche use case, and La Radio Canaria fills it without trying to be more than it is.
FEATURES
La Radio Canaria is the Tizen client for Radio Autonómica de Canarias — the radio service operated by RTVC, the Canary Islands' regional public broadcaster. The app streams the station's live audio feed to a Samsung smart TV, with the usual TV-radio framing: a static branded backdrop, station identification, current programme block.
The app is free, ad-free at the app level (the station's own commercial breaks still air inside the stream), and requires no account. Launch it and the live feed starts. There's no on-demand archive of past programmes inside the Tizen build — for podcasts and catch-up shows, RTVC's web and mobile apps remain the canonical surface.
Built by Interactvty, a Madrid-based vendor that ships smart-TV apps for Spanish regional broadcasters across Tizen, webOS, and Android TV. The Canary Islands release shipped in March 2026 and updated in April. Interface is Spanish-only.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
As a background-listening surface for Canarian households, the app does the job. The stream connects on launch, audio quality matches the station's broadcast bitrate, and the Samsung remote's volume and pause controls behave the way they should. For a regional public-radio client on Tizen, that's the bar — and La Radio Canaria clears it.
The fact that this exists at all matters. Spanish regional broadcasters have historically lagged on smart-TV presence, and Tizen-specific releases for non-Castilian regional content are rare. The Canary Islands diaspora on the Spanish mainland and across Europe gains a no-friction way to keep the home station running in a living room.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
No on-demand catalogue is the obvious gap. RTVC produces hours of original radio programming weekly — interviews, music shows, news magazines — and none of it is browseable inside the Tizen app. Listeners who miss a live programme have to switch to the phone app or the web player. A simple last-7-days catch-up grid would lift the app significantly.
Visual presentation is functional rather than considered. The now-playing screen is a static logo card; programme metadata (current show name, host, segment) is not displayed. Competing regional-broadcaster TV apps from Catalunya Ràdio and Radio Galega both render live programme info on-screen — La Radio Canaria does not. For a TV surface where the screen is on for hours, that absence is felt.
CONCLUSION
Install this if you live in the Canary Islands, or if you're Canarian and want the home station playing on a Samsung TV anywhere else. It's a competent live-radio surface for a specific regional audience and not much more. Worth watching whether RTVC and Interactvty add on-demand catch-up — that's the version of this app that would genuinely matter. Until then, the phone app remains the better way to listen to anything that isn't right now.