WOLM "Radio Maria" (for: Our Loving Mother) is a non-commercial FM broadcasting station at 88.1 mHz licensed to

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and serving the D'Iberville and

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areas. Its founder "Friends of Radio Maria" (which in addition airs Italian language programming on the FM subcarrier of New York City station

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) was the group that acquired the construction permit and start-up of WOLM in addition to sister stations

WHJM WHJM, "Radio Maria" (for "Hearts of Jesus Christ, Jesus and Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary") is a non-commercial FM station operating at 88.7 MHz licensed to Anna, Ohio. It is a repeater station of KJMJ (AM) 580 in Alexandria, Louisiana (where i ...

which is licensed in

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and WRMW 91.1 FM licensed in

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. All these stations are now owned by (and licensed to) Radio Maria Inc. WOLM began as a construction permit issued by the FCC in May 2007. It launched on the air May 27, 2010 just three days before the

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deadline date. It is now licensed. 88.1 FM is also the frequency of Radio Maria-owned WHHN in

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serving the Altoona area. Upon its initial sign-on, WOLM initially was airing sample archived programming from Radio Maria until the network connection with originator KJMJ was established. This took place on Tuesday June 1, 2010 making WOLM a full-time repeater of originating station

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580 kHz in

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. Also launched within the same time frame is WRMW 91.3 mHz in

serving the Sturgeon Bay - Door County region. Radio Maria USA also streams from its website for listeners outside the WOLM signal area in addition to

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and Android mobile phone devices through an app which can be downloaded from the same website. A hip-hop collective based out of Washington DC, New York, New Jersey, and Germany. WOLM (World Of Light Media). Formed in 2008 by Shamir and Nyce.

External links

Official Radio Maria USA site (with streaming audio.)
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Internet radios, iPhone and iPod services availableListing of Radio Maria stations in the U.S.broadcasting in English, Spanish and ItalianWorld Family of Radio Maria
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Catholic Church in Mississippi

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