at 7. Unlike most ABC affiliates, it does not air local news weeknights at 5 p.m. Following Marquee Broadcasting's acquisition of WMDT, there have been several changes. In 2013, the station launched a sports department. In 2015, the station became the first in the nation to regularly broadcast its newscasts from a virtual news studio. Additionally, a focus was put on investigative reporting. In September 2015, WMDT launched the 47ABC News Hour, airing each weeknight from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The station branded this newscast as "local news done differently." Notable former on-air staff Greg Fishel, later with WRAL-TV Gregg Jarrett, now with Fox News Channel Mike Seidel, now with The Weather Channel Bonnie Bernstein, later with ESPN Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On May 21, 2014, Weigel Broadcasting announced that WMDT had signed an affiliation agreement to carry MeTV programming on a new digital subchannel; the network debuted on digital channel 47.3 on May 26. Analog-to-digital conversion WMDT discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 47, in September 2008. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 47. Former translator WMDT previously operated low-power digital repeater WEVD-LD (VHF channel 3, also mapped to virtual channel 47), licensed to Dover, Delaware, but primarily serving Wilmington. Both Wilmington and Dover are part of the Philadelphia television market, which is served by ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI-TV (channel 6). This station was sold in 2020 and moved to the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area as WRZH-LP. Satellite availability WMDT is available on DirecTV and Dish Network in the Delmarva counties of Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester, and Dorchester in Maryland and Sussex County in Delaware. See also Channel 29 digital TV stations in the United States Channel 47 virtual TV stations in the United States References External links WMDT-DT2 "Delmarva CW 3" ABC network affiliates MeTV affiliates Ion Television affiliates Marquee Broadcasting MDT MDT Television channels and stations established in 1980 1980 establishments in Maryland