WVUE was a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, which operated from 1949 to 1958 on VHF analog channel 12.

WVUE first signed in March 1949 as WDEL-TV, owned by the Steinman family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania along with WDEL radio (AM 1150 and FM 93.7, now WSTW).

It was forced to operate at only 1,000 watts because it was sandwiched between New York City's WJZ-TV (now WABC-TV) and Washington, D.C.'s WMAL-TV (now WJLA-TV).

While Philadelphia already had an NBC affiliate, WPTZ-TV (channel 3, later WRCV-TV and now KYW-TV), its transmitter was not strong enough to cover Wilmington at the time.

With that in mind, the Steinmans opted to sell channel 12 to Paul F. Harron, owner of Philadelphia radio powerhouse WIBG (now WNTP).

On March 25, 1956, Philadelphia minister George A. Palmer began a Sunday afternoon television version of his popular Morning Cheer daily radio show on WPFH.

[1][2] Two years later, Harron sold WFPH and WIBG to Storer Broadcasting, who changed channel 12's calls to WVUE.

Shortly after WVUE went off the air, WHYY-TV's owners, the Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television Corporation, asked the FCC for permission to move to channel 12.