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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. 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. wmeu tv
Is it interference? Or is the ATSC 1.0 standard simply decaying like old magnetic tape? wmeu tv
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