Mother Angelica’s EWTN at 45 Years: From Garage Studio to Global Reach

45 years after its first broadcast, EWTN has become the largest Catholic media network in the world

With $200 and 12 nuns with no television experience, Mother Angelica turned a monastery garage into a television studio launching what would become the largest Catholic media network. [...]

Mother Angelica’s EWTN at 45 Years: From Garage Studio to Global Reach

Decades after those early garage broadcasts, EWTN chaplain Father Joseph Mary Wolfe says the fundamental purpose of the network remains unchanged: connecting...

Celebrating 45 years of EWTN

Forty-five years ago today, Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation launched the first broadcast of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) from a converted garage in Alabama. What began as a humble television venture would grow into the world’s largest Catholic media network.With $200 and 12 nuns with no television experience, Mother Angelica turned the monastery garage into a television studio. EWTN received its Federal Communications Comm…

'I'll Build My Own': How Mother Angelica’s Fearless Faith Built EWTN From a Garage Studio

On August 15, 2025, the Eternal Word Television Network celebrates the 44th anniversary of Catholic nun Mother Angelica founding the network.In a video that aired on Mother Angelica LIVE Classics, EWTN's foundress explains, in her own words, how she established the network from a garage studio.When Mother Angelica first stepped into a television studio in Chicago, she didn’t realize she was about to launch a global Catholic media revolution. Mot…