WADL TV Channel 38 Mt. Clemens/Detroit

Slogan:WADL TV 38

Analog Power/Height/Offset: 5,000,000 watts / 630 feet / +
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- Analog Service Area

Digital Channel: 39

Final Digital Channel: 39

Digital Power/Height: 1,000,000 watts / 558 feet
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- Digital Service Area

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Call Sign History: WADL, assigned 9/25/1985

Call Sign Origin: Adell Broadcasting

Network Affiliation History:

On Air Date: 1986

Owner: Adell Broadcasting

Telephone: (586) 790-3838

Notes/History:

8/2007: The FCC's final digital channel assignment report shows that WADL will be using Channel 39 once the conversion to all-digital broadcasts is completed on February 17, 2009.

2007: WADL positions itself as Detroit's 'Urban Station' and offers more programming targeted towards the community including a mini-program featuring Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Jewelry Television is dropped.

2004: Programming primarily consists of home shopping (Jewelry Television), infomericals, and religious shows.

Fall 2002: Weekday Fox Kids programming dropped, along with most religious programming in favor of home shopping

More on programming history: Station has relied heavily on home shopping feeds; first airing the Home Shopping Network, then Home Shopping Spree, and then Shop at Home. Since its inception, WADL has been the Detroit area's 'leftover' station- airing programming no other station wants/has room for. At one point, WADL was rebroadcasting WJBK-TV Channel 2 Detroit newscasts- most on a tape delayed basis.

Transmitter location:

Macomb County, Near 15 Mile and Gratiot (Clinton Twp.)