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In the mid-2000s, WMEU was supposed to be Chicago’s scrappy, weird cousin. While WGN was “America’s Very Own,” WMEU was Chicago’s Very Own —unpolished, local, and chaotic. It gave us The Jerry Springer Show reruns next to obscure Polish-language news. It aired Svengoolie before he became a national treasure. It was the attic of Chicago broadcasting.

Local DXers (long-distance TV hunters) report something strange. On humid summer nights, when tropospheric ducting occurs, WMEU’s old analog ghost sometimes bleeds into the digital signal. Viewers in Milwaukee and South Bend report seeing a 15-second loop of a 2007 promo for The Steve Wilkos Show superimposed over the current infomercial. wmeu tv

The result? Drive three blocks west of the Loop, and WMEU dissolves into pixelated macro-blocking. It’s a broadcast station that broadcasts to ghosts . It exists on paper, but not in the electromagnetic ether. In the mid-2000s, WMEU was supposed to be

Do you have a local “zombie station” in your market—a channel number that still exists legally but has no soul? Or is WMEU uniquely Chicago’s ghost in the machine? It aired Svengoolie before he became a national treasure

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