WADL (TV)
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Mount Clemens-Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| City | Mount Clemens, Michigan |
| Branding | WADL-TV 38 |
| Slogan | Detroit's TV Station |
| Channels |
Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 38 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Owner | Adell Broadcasting Corporation |
| Founded | September 25, 1985 |
| First air date | May 20, 1989 |
| Call letters' meaning | ADeLl Broadcasting |
| Sister station(s) | WFDF |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 38 (UHF, 1989–2009) Digital: 38.4 (2011) |
| Former affiliations |
CBS/Fox Kids (1992–2002) FoxBox (2002–2003) HSN* HSN Spree/America's Store* Shop at Home* Network One* * – all of the above networks had been seen on the station during the 1990s and 2000s DT2: Universal Sports (2008–2012) Antenna TV (2012–2015) DT3: The Word Network (2008–2015) DT4: Titan Sports Network (2014–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 170 m |
| Facility ID | 455 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°33′12.2″N 82°53′14.6″W / 42.553389°N 82.887389°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wadldetroit.com |
WADL, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 39), is an independent television station serving Detroit, Michigan, United States that is licensed to Mount Clemens. The station is locally owned by the Adell Broadcasting Corporation. WADL maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on Adell Drive in Clinton Township.
On cable, the station is available in standard definition on channel 4 on Comcast Xfinity's Detroit city system, channel 23 in the suburbs and outlying areas (except on Xfinity's Pontiac, western Wayne County and Grosse Pointe systems, where it is carried on channel 14, as well as WOW!, where it is carried on channel 22, and on Charter Spectrum, where it is carried on channel 11), and channel 38 on AT&T U-verse, and in high definition on Xfinity channel 295, and AT&T U-verse channel 1038.
Although Adell Broadcasting filed for an application for the channel 38 license on September 25, 1985, it took four years for WADL to begin broadcasting, signing on the air for the first time on May 20, 1989. The station was founded by Franklin Z. Adell, previously the owner of an automotive parts supplier company. His son Kevin joined the company after graduating from Arizona State University in 1988. Its original programming blocks were filled with mostly Home Shopping Network programs, religious shows and other paid programming, classic movies and hourly blocks of the syndicated music video show Hit Video USA. In 1990, it began running several hours of syndicated programs. WADL had long been considered "The 5 Million Watt Powerhouse", because it has one of the strongest broadcast signals in the Detroit market.
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