WXDM is a
Catholic Religious formatted
broadcast
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...
radio station licensed to
Front Royal, Virginia, serving the Northern
Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley () is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge- ...
. WXDM is owned and operated by
Christendom College
Christendom College is a Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, Virginia, United States, located in the Shenandoah Valley. It is endorsed by The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College and has been characterized as a conservative Catho ...
.
Station launch
Bishop Paul S. Loverde of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington blessed the transmitter and studios of WXDM on January 18, 2013.
With the Bishop's blessing, WXDM took to the airwaves as the first Catholic radio station in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Simulcast
On July 22, 2013, WXDM began simulcasting Winchester-based
WHFW.
References
External links
Radio Christendom Online*
Catholic radio stations
XDM
Christendom College
2013 establishments in Virginia
Radio stations established in 2013
College radio stations in Virginia
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