23 Facts About EWTN

Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initials EWTN, is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming.

EWTN hosted her own show, Mother Angelica Live, until health issues led to her retirement in September 2001.

EWTN has a 24-hour radio network, offering Catholic talk and worship programming to about 350 radio stations around the US as well as SiriusXM Satellite Radio and shortwave radio.

EWTN had been a guest on local station WBMG, and on shows on the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Mother Angelica purchased satellite space and EWTN began broadcasting on August 15,1981, with four hours of daily programming, which included her own show, Mother Angelica Live, a Sunday Mass, and reruns of older Catholic programs such as Archbishop Fulton J Sheen's Life Is Worth Living.

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EWTN eventually increased its broadcast schedule to six hours per day and then to eight hours per day by 1986.

Secular content was gradually reduced from 1986 to 1988, and satellite distribution was expanded late in 1987, after which EWTN acquired a far more desirable satellite channel and began broadcasting around the clock.

At this point, EWTN began broadcasting the praying of the rosary on a daily basis and added a number of educational shows.

In 1992, EWTN established the largest privately owned shortwave radio station, WEWN.

In 1996, Mother Angelica announced that EWTN would make its radio signal available via satellite to AM and FM stations throughout the United States at no cost.

In 2004, EWTN announced an agreement with Sirius Satellite Radio, which thereafter merged with XM Satellite Radio to become Sirius XM Satellite Radio.

In January 2011, EWTN acquired the National Catholic Register, a newspaper founded in Denver, Colorado, in 1924 as a periodical for local Catholics, and which became a national publication three years later.

EWTN owns Catholic News Agency which is a Catholic news service with bureaus across America, Latin America and Europe.

EWTN was founded by Mother Angelica, PCPA, in 1980 and began broadcasting on August 15,1981, from a garage studio at the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale, Alabama, which Mother Angelica founded in 1962.

In October 2011, EWTN became available through the Roku streaming player.

Two years later, Cardinal Muller published a "manifesto of faith" in the EWTN-owned Catholic News Agency and other outlets that have been critical of the pope, arguing against Francis' teaching on Communion for the divorced and remarried.

Purvis was interviewed by the New York Times concerning the controversy, and EWTN initially expressed support for her and said the show would continue to be produced despite the suspension.

In 2009, the Holy See bestowed the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award on Mother Angelica and the leaders of EWTN to express gratitude for their service to the Catholic Church.

EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world, and it says it has a reach of a quarter-billion people in 140 countries.

On YouTube and other social media platforms, EWTN has more than 1,000,000 active followers and online viewers.

EWTN is available on demand on streaming services Roku, Kindle, and Apple TV.

EWTN had an annual revenue of $64,946,744 in 2019, and has received an 84.

EWTN's logo has incorporated a globe outline in some form since the network's launch in 1981 to suggest the network's hope of a worldwide reach, usually with an outline of the dome of St Peter's Basilica within a profile of a satellite dish inside of it.