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{{short description|Independent TV station in Dover, Delaware}}
{{about|the television station|the Wikimedia Foundation chapter|Wikimedia Deutschland}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WMDE
| logo = WMDE-TV.png
| image =
| location = {{ubl|[[Dover, Delaware]]|[[Salisbury, Maryland|Salisbury]]–[[Baltimore, Maryland]]|[[Washington, D.C.]]}}
| country = United States
| city = Dover, Delaware
| branding = WMDE 36
| analog =
| digital = 5 ([[VHF]])
| virtual = 36
| subchannels =
| translators =
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''36.1:''' [[ShopHQ]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[WRNN-TV Associates]] [[Limited Partnership]]
| licensee = RNN D.C. License Co., [[LLC]]
| founded = May 4, 2011
| airdate = {{start date|2013|5|24}}
| last_airdate =
| callsign_meaning = Washington (D.C.), Maryland, and Delaware
| sister_stations =
| former_callsigns =
| former_channel_numbers =
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Soul of the South Network]]|[[Newsmax TV]]|Doctor TV}}
| erp = 10 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|145|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class =
| facility_id = 189357
| coordinates = {{coord|38|57|17.3|N|76|5|34.8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|www.wmdetv.com}}
}}
'''WMDE''' (channel 36) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Dover, Delaware]], United States. Owned by [[WRNN-TV Associates]], the station maintains a transmitter in the [[unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated]] community of [[Wye Mills]] in [[Talbot County, Maryland]], {{convert|41|mi|km}} southwest of Dover. Despite its physical location well east of the center of the market and across the [[Chesapeake Bay]], the station is assigned by [[Nielsen Media Research|Nielsen]] to the [[Washington, D.C.]], [[television market]]. With the repeal of the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC)'s Main Studio Rule in 2019, WMDE is fully [[broadcast automation|automated]] out of WRNN-TV's studios in [[Rye Brook, New York]], with no local presence whatsoever.
Outside of a morning rebroadcast of the Japanese network [[Fuji TV]]'s ''News Catch'' program, the station's schedule on its main channel is made up of [[home shopping]] programming from [[Shop LC]], which also airs on the main channel of all of WRNN's stations.
==History==
WMDE signed on May 24, 2013. The station was originally owned by Western Pacific Broadcast [[LLC]].<ref>{{cite web|title=FCC Ownership Report Search Results - Facility ID 189358|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl?Facility_id=189357|work=FCC.gov|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref>
Shortly after sign-on, Nielsen granted WMDE's request to be assigned to the Washington market instead of [[Philadelphia]] (where Dover is located) or [[Baltimore]] (where Wye Mills is located). Because WMDE is a full-powered station covered by [[must-carry]] regulations, it is thus carried on every cable and satellite provider in the Washington market, with the exception of [[Cox Communications]]' systems in [[Fairfax County, Virginia]]. Cox filed a complaint to the [[Federal Communications Commission]] seeking to avoid carriage and prevailed in 2015. Although the FCC's ruling called Nielsen's market modification decision "inexplicable", must-carry rules otherwise defer to Nielsen with respect to market assignment.<ref>{{cite web |title=In the Matter of CoxComm, LLC for Modification of the Market of WMDE, Dover, Delaware |url=https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-15-1171A1.pdf |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |date=October 13, 2015}}</ref>
WRNN-TV Associates agreed to acquire the station for $11.5 million on April 25, 2018;<ref>{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1784834&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=189357|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|date=May 1, 2018|access-date=July 25, 2018}}</ref> the sale was completed on July 11, 2018.<ref name="fcc-saletornncomplete">{{cite web |title=Consummation Notice |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1788437&Service=DT&Form_id=905&Facility_id=189357 |website=CDBS Public Access |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |access-date=July 25, 2018 |date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>
==Subchannels==
The station's signal is [[multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WMDE<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WMDE#station|title=Digital TV Market Listing for WMDE|website=RabbitEars.Info|access-date=April 11, 2023}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.1
| rowspan=2| [[720p]] || rowspan=3| [[16:9]] || WMDE.1 || [[Shop LC]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.2
| The365 || [[The365]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.3
| rowspan=7| [[480i]] || Hrtland || [[Heartland (TV network)|Heartland]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.4
| [[4:3]] || Retro || [[Retro TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.5
| rowspan=5|16:9 || The365 || [[The365]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.6
| WMDE.6 || [[Outlaw (TV network)|Outlaw]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.7
| Arirang || [[Arirang TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.8
| ShopLC || [[Shop LC]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 36.9
| BINGE || Binge TV
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Salisbury TV}}
{{Baltimore TV}}
{{Washington DC TV}}
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 2013]]
[[Category:2013 establishments in Delaware]]
[[Category:Television stations in Delaware|MDE]]
[[Category:Television stations in Salisbury, Maryland|MDE]]
[[Category:Television stations in Washington, D.C.|MDE]]
[[Category:Heartland (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Retro TV affiliates]]
[[Category:Dover, Delaware]]