WHME-TV

WHME-TV (channel 46) is a television station in South Bend, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Univision.

Prior to 2024, WHME-TV served as the flagship station of World Harvest Television, an organization founded by Assembly of God minister Lester Sumrall, whose sons are still active with the ministry.

The G & E Religious and Educational Broadcasting Corporation obtained a construction permit for a new television station on channel 46 in South Bend on April 10, 1973.

[11] In January 1977, rumors began to circulate that the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association was in negotiations to buy WMSH-TV from its trustee, Elkhart attorney Gordon MacKenzie.

[12] Sumrall closed on the purchase on July 21,[1] and the newly renamed WHME-TV signed on the air on September 10, 1977; the station ran mostly religious programs, along with a blend of classic cartoons, sitcoms from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and some drama series.

[14] WHME used to carry many regional college football and basketball games shown through ESPN Plus until the 2007 launch of the Big Ten Network.

On March 8, 2011, WHME-TV received a construction permit to move its digital operations to its former analog allotment on channel 46, due to interference with WMLW-TV in Racine, Wisconsin (which transmits from Milwaukee), a station that also broadcast its digital signal on UHF channel 48, with both stations having signal conflicts on the edges of their market areas.

Former WHME logo, used until August 2024.