How we checked Radio Vaticana Italia
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 2 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Radio Vaticana Italia is Vatican Radio's Italian channel, the one Romans actually tune to, on 103.8 FM in the city and 105 FM across the province, on DAB+ throughout Italy and on shortwave and streaming beyond it. The day opens quietly with Con voi nella notte through the small hours, a music box at three and a jazz hour at half past four, then the word of the day, Lauds and a meditation before the Latin Mass at 07:19. From eight it becomes a proper talk and music station: Buongiorno Radio, Pop Teology, Afrofonia, the weather, and the long live blocks called 105 Live that carry the middle of the day. Afternoons bring the Italian and Latin news bulletins back to back, classical strands like Radio Vaticana Musica and The Sound of Classics, and on Sundays a festive concert at one. Vespers, Mass and Compline close it out, so the liturgical day keeps its shape underneath everything else.
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Artists
none named by the channel; its music strands go out as unnamed repertoire
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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Contact route
newsroom lines in Rome, +39 06 698 45472 for coordination, +39 06 698 45423 for programmes and +39 06 698 45429 for the newsroom; WhatsApp +39 335 1243722; [email protected]; Twitter @VaticanNews; post to Radio Vaticana Italia, Piazza Pia 3, 00120 Citta del Vaticano
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Era
classical and jazz repertoire alongside contemporary Italian light music
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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Music
news, religious talk and liturgy with classical, jazz and light music strands
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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Language
Italian, with a news bulletin and the liturgy in Latin
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Kind
live studio talk, news bulletins, live liturgy, recorded strands and music programmes
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
It still reads a news bulletin in Latin, the Radiogiornale Latino, straight after the Italian one every afternoon.
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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Where
Vatican City and Rome, at Piazza Pia 3; 103.8 FM for Rome city, 105 FM for Rome and province, DAB+ across Italy and television channel 733, plus shortwave from Santa Maria di Galeria and streaming; News in Italian on 15595 kHz
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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On air
none named; the channel's own page lists newsroom desks rather than people
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Programmes
Con voi nella notte 00:00; Scrigno Musicale 03:00; Jazzy 04:30; Santa Messa in latino 07:19; Buongiorno Radio 08:00; Pop Teology 08:30; Afrofonia 09:00; 105 Live 10:00 and 15:00; Radiogiornale Italiano and Radiogiornale Latino 14:00; The Sound of Classics 17:30; Vespri Cei 18:30
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What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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it
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Its own channel page, https://www.vaticannews.va/it/rvi.html, and its own schedule are Italian throughout: Con voi nella notte, Buongiorno Radio, Pop Teology, Afrofonia, Concerto festivo, Radiogiornale Italiano. The one exception is Latin, used for the Radiogiornale Latino and the liturgy, which sits inside an otherwise Italian service. |
| homepage url | https://www.vaticannews.va/ → https://www.vaticannews.va/it/rvi.html | This is the Italian radio channel's own page on the network site, and it is the only page that carries this channel's own broadcast and contact detail: 103.8 FM for Rome city, 105 FM for Rome and province, DAB+ across Italy plus TV channel 733, streaming and shortwave, the three newsroom numbers, WhatsApp +39 335 1243722, [email protected] and the Piazza Pia 3 address. The stored root https://www.vaticannews.va/ answers a direct fetch with a bare title and no body, and it is language-neutral, so it identifies no channel. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| the English, Ukrainian, Arabic, Chinese and other bulletins in the network's shortwave tables | those belong to Vatican Radio's other language channels; only the Italian bulletin at 06:00 UTC on 15595 kHz and the Latin liturgy belong to this one
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| Barocco festivo and other titles from the channel's programme archive | its last episode is dated 10 November 2024, so that list is history rather than schedule, and the published day's grid is what is given here
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Radio Vaticana Italia — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.vaticannews.va/