Wmeu Tv May 2026

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We talk a lot about the death of broadcast TV. But we rarely talk about the between life and death. wmeu tv

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. While WGN was “America’s Very Own,” WMEU was

Today, if you tune to 48.1, you get “The U Too.” It is a simulcast of WCIU’s secondary feed. But look deeper at the PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) data. The metadata is corrupt. The guide data lists shows from 2015. The station has no news department, no sales team, no engineers. It is a skeleton server running on autopilot. It was the attic of Chicago broadcasting