WHJM

WHJM, "Radio Maria" (for "Hearts of Jesus and Mary") is a non-commercial FM station operating at 88.7 MHz licensed to Anna, Ohio.^[1] It is a repeater station of KJMJ (AM) 580 in Alexandria, Louisiana (where its local Catholic diocese is also headquartered) and is owned by Radio Maria Inc. airing inspirational music and Catholic programming for the Upper Miami Valley region of Shelby, Auglaize, Allen, Logan, Mercer, Miami and surrounding counties in West Central Ohio. It is part of the international broadcast ministry of The World Family of Radio Maria, which is based in Italy and broadcasts in over thirty countries in thirteen languages worldwide. The station also audiostreams from its website for listeners outside its immediate signal area in addition to its very own smartphone app, the Tune In app and the Alexa device.

A group of New York City-based volunteers known as "Friends of Radio Maria" which operates an Italian language FM subcarrier (of WKTU) acquired the original funding and construction permit for the new station in 2001 by means of a New York-based fundraiser called a "Mariathon." The construction permit however initially sat dormant until it was discovered by a group of Dayton area volunteers in 2005 looking for a Miami Valley frequency to start a local Catholic station. After a tower site was found, WHJM joined the Radio Maria family on June 8, 2006, while volunteers feverishly proceeded with preparations to get on the air before the construction permit was to have expired.

Within just a few days prior to the construction permit's deadline date to start broadcasting, WHJM "Radio Maria" first came on the air on June 15, 2006. Its transmitting antenna and tower was abruptly struck by a spectacular display of lightning only after two hours on the air during its inaugural sign-on. However, the brief airtime before the lightning strike was enough to fulfill the FCC deadline. After necessary repairs were made, WHJM returned to the air August 11, 2006. Its current operating power is 1,000 watts ERP.^[2] WHJM's current signal fades-out north of Lima at Beaverdam where WJTA's FM translator (W204CU) in Findlay fades in, followed by CIMX in Windsor, Ontario which begins to fade-in north towards Bowling Green and Toledo. Its signal also fades out to the south near Tipp City where listeners can switch to 1600 AM (WULM) in Springfield or 103.3 FM (WULM's translator W277AO) in Enon.

Friends of Radio Maria also helped acquire the construction permits of new repeater stations WOLM in D'Iberville, Mississippi near Biloxi and WRMW licensed to Peshtigo serving the Door Peninsula region of northeastern Wisconsin. These stations are now licensed to Radio Maria Inc.

The WHJM call letters were previously used at an Urban/R&B/Hip-Hop formatted station at 107.7 FM in Ledyard/Pawcatuk, Connecticut. The call sign for that station has since switched to WWRX. Before that, the WHJM calls were used on 1180 AM in Knoxville, Tennessee which had used ChristianCountry, Adult Standards and talk radio formats. That station is now WKCE.

KJMJ has been on the air as the US flagship station of Radio Maria since May 2000. Originally, the 580 frequency was home to KALB-AM, sister station to KALB-TV channel 5.

Radio Maria was founded at first with humble beginnings as a small parish-operated station in Erba (province of Como,) Italy in 1983 before its subsequent international growth in the 1990s which gave birth to the World Family in 1998.^[3] Emanuele Ferrario is Radio Maria's founder and Carlo DiMaggio as its president.

Aunque WHJM, en su mayor parte, es una repetidora de KJMJ , hay un estudio al oeste de Anna, en la cercana localidad de Minster, desde donde se emiten varios programas en directo, entre ellos "Living The Lectionary" (presentado ahora por Julia Monnin tras el fallecimiento del padre Rick Nieberding en 2019) y el programa de cuidados paliativos de Herb Wilker, "Letting Go". Entre los programas locales anteriores, originados mediante grabaciones de audio y por teléfono, se incluyen "En casa con Jesús" con Glenda Canfield, "Del estómago al corazón" y "Francesca y sus amigas", presentado por Francesca Franchina de la Biblioteca Mariana de la Universidad de Dayton. El estudio abrió oficialmente el domingo 22 de abril de 2007 con un servicio de oración y bendición y una jornada de puertas abiertas oficiada por el Padre Rick Nieberding CPPS (1953-2019), quien fue párroco de la Iglesia de San Agustín y el presentador original del programa "Viviendo el Leccionario". WHJM también fue la emisora ​​que originó la transmisión anual remota de la vigilia de oración con velas de Fátima USA, que tiene lugar por la noche durante el mes de agosto en Maria Stein , una concelebración que involucra a parroquias de Minster, Marion Township y Saint Henry.

La programación nocturna era proporcionada por Radio María de Nueva York y se originaba en WSNR 620 AM, con licencia en Jersey City, Nueva Jersey . Actualmente, Radio María emite repeticiones nocturnas de diversos programas diurnos para oyentes que trabajan en horario diurno.

Antes de la inauguración del estudio, el 29 de agosto de 2006 tuvo lugar una sesión informativa pública en el St. Charles Center de Carthagena, Ohio, para presentar Radio María a los oyentes locales y a la zona norte de la arquidiócesis de Cincinnati.

El transmisor de WHJM está ubicado al norte, en la cercana localidad de Botkins , en el emplazamiento de la torre de retransmisión de radio por microondas (anteriormente utilizada por AT&T Long Lines ) en West State Street (con las antenas de bocina Hogg retiradas antes del inicio de las emisiones de WHJM en 2006).

El estudio de WHJM está ubicado en el edificio Hoying Professional, en la esquina de las calles Main y Fourth, en la intersección de las rutas estatales 119 y 66 de Ohio, en el centro de Minster.

According to a Springfield News-Sun story dated March 10, 2008, Radio Maria USA purchased WULM (the former WBLY) from Urban Light Ministries in Springfield, Ohio. The application for license transfer and purchase which took place on February 15, 2008, was granted FCC approval on April 16, 2008. The AM station acquisition now brings Radio Maria programming to Springfield, Dayton, Tipp City, Troy, Urbana and other communities in the Miami Valley not reached by WHJM's signal. WULM's signal also has the potential to reach east towards Columbus and west towards Richmond, Indiana along U.S. 40 and I-70. WULM is also simulcast for the north Dayton suburbs on FM translator W277AO at 103.3 FM in Enon.

Radio Maria programming on WULM commenced on Saturday, May 31, 2008, at 12 noon local time. The WULM studio (formerly located at WIZE's transmitter site and now-vacated studio on Miracle Mile Road) is now located at the Father Boyle Center (the former parish convent) on Lagonda Avenue next to St. Bernard Parish east of downtown Springfield.

Radio Maria now offers its audiostreaming though the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile phone devices in addition to its own World Family Smartphone app and the TuneIn app for listeners outside of WHJM and WULM's signal area in addition to the Amazon Alexa device which can be accessed by the vocal command: "Alexa...Open Radio Maria." hence Radio Maria USA now has nationwide coverage outside the signal areas of its terrestrial stations.

Mary Pyper, (presenter of "Marian Apparitions" and past National President) is currently the National Board Treasurer of Radio Maria USA. Jim Linthicum is local voiceover/audio production technician. Cletus Prenger is Minster studio technician. Ernestine Miller (1923–2013) (formerly with WERM, now WFGF) served as Minster studio and office public relations representative, Greg Oen associate recording and remote broadcast technician, Nick Hoying associate remote broadcast technician and Jim Boeckman (1941–2019) was volunteer in charge of promotion and publicity before his passing. Rose Luthman is current Minster studio and office manager.

• KJMJ
• KBIO
• WULM
• WHHN
• WMKL
• HMWN(now Radio Maria Canada, a webcaster)

• Official Radio Maria USA site (with streaming audio)Archived January 15, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
• Radio María WHJM en Facebook
• Detalles de la instalación con ID 92988 (WHJM) en el Sistema de Licencias y Gestión de la FCC.
• WHJM en la base de datos de estaciones de FM de Nielsen Audio
• Sitio web no oficial de WHJM/WULM para oyentes y simpatizantes.
• Listado de emisoras de Radio María USA en inglés, español e italiano.
• Sitio web oficial de Radio María para toda la familia (con transmisión de audio en directo)
• Sitio web oficial de Radio María Italia (con transmisión de audio en directo)
• Descarga la aplicación Radio María para iPhone
• Descarga la aplicación Radio Maria para Blackberry.
• Descarga la aplicación Radio María para Android
• Artículo del Springfield News-Sun sobre la compra de WULM por parte de Radio Maria en Springfield (10 de marzo de 2008)
• Artículo del periódico Youngstown Vindicator sobre WHJM. (10 de septiembre de 2006)
• Ubicación actual del transmisor de WHJM
• Mapa del área de cobertura de WHJM en formato PDF

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