WMDE
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| Dover, Delaware/Salisbury/Baltimore, Maryland/Washington, D.C. | |
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| City of license | Dover, Delaware |
| Branding | WMDE 36 |
| Channels | Digital: 5 (VHF) Virtual: 36 (PSIP) |
| Owner | Western Pacific Broadcast[1] |
| First air date | May 24, 2013 |
| Call letters' meaning | Serving MarylanD and DElaware |
| Sister station(s) | WACP |
| Transmitter power | 10 kW |
| Height | 145 meters (476 ft) |
| Facility ID | 189357 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: | Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WMDE is an independent television station licensed and owned by Western Pacific Broadcast and based in Dover, Delaware, though its transmitter is located north of Wye Mills, Maryland, 41 miles (66 km) southwest of Dover. The station's location near the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay allows it, along with additional cable and satellite coverage, to also air their programming in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. markets across the Bay, though officially it is classified in the smaller Salisbury, Maryland/Dover market.
Programming
WMDE airs programming from Doctor TV, as well as Newsmax TV infomercials and the Liquidation Channel.
Legal controversy
WMDE was originally an Atlantic City allocation, licensed in Seaford, Delaware. However, Western Pacific Broadcast petitioned to move it to Dover. That move was protested and then held up due to an appeal by another company that wanted to move its Wyoming and Nevada allocations to the Philadelphia and New York City markets, respectively (one of which was the station that became WJLP). The move of WMDE was deemed to be a more legitimate move, but its owner still had to wait pending the other station moves. This shuffling of stations was primarily sparked by the new allocations deriving from the Digital TV changes in 2011.[2][3][4]
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