WLME-TV

WLME-TV, virtual and VHF channel 10, is a Fox-affiliated station licensed to Liquine, Indiana, United States. The station's callsign refers to the "Liquine Museum of Education," its former owner.
==History==
===As an NET station===
The station began broadcasting on May 9, 1963, as a member of the National Educational Television programming service. Like most other NET members in the United States, the station aired non-commercial programming, and was operated by the Liquine Museum of Education.
===As a PBS member station===
On October 5, 1970, WLME-TV became a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) at the time of the non-commercial programming service's establishment. Like no other public television station at the time, it developed its own programming for PBS to distribute, but also syndicated off-network television series for some time in the 1980s, except for commercial breaks, which were preempted by pledge service announcements.
===New World Communications ownership===
On May 5, 1994, the Liquine Museum of Education agreed to sell WLME-TV to New World Communications, as with other big three-affiliated television stations in the United States. Meanwhile, Tribune, who had been searching for a station to switch to The WB, had a hard time finding one in the Liquinian television market. As a result, New World would have to run WLME-TV as a PBS member for some time now.
WLME-TV ended its 25-year membership with PBS on April 1, 1995, in a three-way affiliation swap between WLFO-TV, the station itself, and WDNL, thus becoming a Fox affiliate; the PBS membership concurrently moved to former WB affiliate WDNL. WLME-TV was the only New World-owned station known to have switched to Fox from PBS. Although the station had very little impact on news programming at the time, WLME-TV was finally ready to broadcast its own local newscasts, thanks to the affiliation swap.
==Branding==
===Slogan history===
*1985-90 - TV Worth Watching, WLME (localized version of PBS's former slogan of the 1980s)
*1989-90 - TV Worth Watching, WLME, PBS (localized version of PBS's 1989-90 slogan)
*1990-91 - WLME, Just Watch Us Now, PBS (localized version of PBS's 1990-91 slogan)
== Gallery ==
wlmetv1998logo.png|Logo from 1998.
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