WMEI (channel 31) is a television station licensed to Shawano, Wisconsin, United States. The station serves as an owned-and-operated outlet for Weigel Broadcasting's suite of over-the-air broadcast networks in the Green Bay–Fox Cities market, with its flagship network MeTV carried on its primary channel. WMEI's transmitter is located with that of WFRV-TV on Scray Hill southeast of Green Bay near Shirley, and the station is operated out of Weigel's Chicago headquarters, with no local presence in either Green Bay or Shawano.[1]
History
Channel 31 was originally allocated to Wittenberg, Wisconsin; though within Shawano County, which is assigned by Nielsen to the Green Bay market, it was instead utilized to provide a Fox affiliate for Wausau to the west, which originally had none and instead carried stations from Green Bay and Madison to provide the network to Wausau viewers due to a lack of demand for the network from its 1986 launch, nor any financially feasible way to launch an independent station at that time. The market's overall small population meant that NBC