WEWN Shortwave Transmission Station, Alabama

WEWN, the Worldwide Eternal Word Network, is a powerful Catholic shortwave broadcasting station located in Irondale, Alabama, outside of Birmingham. With four 500,000-watt transmitters, broadcasting English programming to Africa, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Spanish programs to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America, it is owned by Eternal Word Television Network, which was founded by Mother Angelica, a Birmingham-based Catholic nun who became a religious television personality. There are less than a dozen large shortwave radio stations broadcasting internationally from the continental USA. Most of them are transmitting Christian programming to some of the estimated 250 million people in remote parts of the world that still listen to shortwave radios.