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WMDE

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 community of Wye Mills in Talbot County, Maryland, southwest of Dover along Maryland's Eastern Shore. Despite its physical location well east of the center of the market and across the Chesapeake Bay, the station is assigned by Nielsen to the Washington, D.C., television market, though its over-the-air coverage outside most of Delaware itself mainly favors Baltimore, Annapolis, and Salisbury. With the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Main Studio Rule in 2019, WMDE is fully 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.

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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 community of Wye Mills in Talbot County, Maryland, southwest of Dover along Maryland's Eastern Shore. Despite its physical location well east of the center of the market and across the Chesapeake Bay, the station is assigned by Nielsen to the Washington, D.C., television market, though its over-the-air coverage outside most of Delaware itself mainly favors Baltimore, Annapolis, and Salisbury. With the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Main Studio Rule in 2019, WMDE is fully 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.

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