WMEU-CD (channel 48) is a low-power, Class A independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Even though WMEU operates a digital signal of its own, the low-power broadcasting radius does not reach the outer ring of Chicago proper or surrounding suburbs.
On January 1, 2005, the station's callsign was changed to WFBT-CA and adopted an ethnic programming format called "FBT" (Foreign-language Broadcast Television); the FBT format originated on WWME-CA (channel 23), which previously held the WFBT-CA call letters from 2001 to 2004, shortly after that station expanded the block of classic television series it began airing one year earlier in January 2003 (including many series that previously aired on WCIU-TV) into a 24-hour format called "MeTV".
[10] In September 2013, WMEU dropped the MeToo format (which moved to WWME analog channel 23, while continuing to air on WCIU digital subchannel 26.4 until it was replaced by Heroes & Icons on December 29, 2014).
On April 18, 2019, Weigel Broadcasting signed an agreement with CBS Corporation through which WCIU-TV would take over as The CW's Chicago-area affiliate, while shifting syndicated programs that it either currently features on or has acquired with the intent of including in its prime time lineup to "The U Too" carried on WMEU and simulcast on WCIU-DT2.
[18] Subsequently, on October 1, 2013, Weigel and the Chicago Wolves reached a deal to allow "The U Too" to serve as the over-the-air broadcaster for the AHL hockey team.
[19][20][21][22] The station began broadcasting all of its Wolves and Sky game telecasts in high-definition beginning with the team's respective 2014 seasons.
[27] However, since WMEU-CD's signal does not cover the entire Chicago market, WCIU continues to simulcast WMEU's programming on digital subchannel 26.2.
In addition to its carriage on digital subchannel 48.2,[28] WMEU simulcast TouchVision in a letterboxed format on its analog channel 48 signal from September 29, 2014, to January 14, 2016.