WADL (TV)

WADL

Mount Clemens–Detroit, Michigan United States
City	Mount Clemens, Michigan
Channels	Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 38
Branding	My38 WADL Detroit
Programming
Affiliations	38.1: MyNetworkTV for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Adell Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	WFDF, The Word Network
History
Founded	September 25, 1985
First air date	May 20, 1989 (35 years ago) (1989-05-20)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 1989–2009) Digital: 39 (UHF, 2000–2020)
Former affiliations	Independent (1985–2021) CBS (secondary, 1992–2002) Fox Kids (1998–2002) NBC (secondary, 1999–2002, 2013–2014) FoxBox (2002–2003) The CW (September–October 2023)
Call sign meaning	Adell Broadcasting
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	455
ERP	605 kW
HAAT	187 m (614 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	42°33′15″N 82°53′15″W / 42.55417°N 82.88750°W / 42.55417; -82.88750
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.mywadl.com

WADL (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Mount Clemens, Michigan, United States, serving the Detroit area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Locally owned by Kevin Adell via his company Adell Broadcasting, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Adell Drive in Clinton Township.^[2] Adell's sister company, Adell Radio Group, owns WFDF, a talk radio station in the same market, as well as religious broadcaster The Word Network.

WADL's transmitter tower is shorter and located farther east than the market's other major stations; as a result, its broadcasting radius does not reach the western and southwestern portions of the Detroit metro, and its over-the-air signal is marginal in Windsor and Essex County, Ontario, Canada.^[3] Therefore, the station relies on cable and satellite carriage to reach the entire market.