transmitter. The analog UHF channel 47 signal was unavailable for many weeks although its digital signal, cable channel, and cable-only WB station were unaffected. In 2004, WMDT won the top "Service to Children" award for small market stations from the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation. The station also has "Teachers Who Make a Difference" and "Meet The Money Givers" programs among other community-service activities. On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. Television division of Time Warner (which operated The WB in a joint venture with Tribune Broadcasting) and CBS Corporation (the then-new owners of UPN) announced that the two companies would shut down their respective networks and combine their resources to create a new network named The CW. UPN was offered on WBOC-TV's second digital subchannel and Comcast channel 5. It was announced on March 28 that WBD would become an affiliate of The CW via The CW Plus (a similar operation to The WB 100+). WMDT would then create a new second digital subchannel to simulcast WBD and offer CW programming for non-cable viewers. WBOC announced on May 9, 2006 that its UPN subchannel would become a Fox affiliate beginning August 21, 2006. On September 18, 2006, The CW debuted on WBD (now officially using the WMDT-DT2 calls). The station began to be known on-air as "Delmarva CW 3". During the annual Delaware State Fair, the 6 p.m. newscast is broadcast live from the Exhibit Hall. Brechner Management Company announced the sale of WMDT to Marquee Broadcasting on August 8, 2013. News operation WMDT's news department, from its inception, used electronic news gathering instead of the commonly used 16 mm film which was still in use on the Delmarva Peninsula in 1980. It began broadcasting its first weekday noon show, known as Midday Live, on July 26, 1982. When WBD became WMDT-DT2, it began to simulcast the Midday broadcast. That channel also started to air a nightly prime time newscast which competes with WBOC-DT2. The 5 a.m. hour of WMDT's weekday morning show is simulcast on WMDT-DT2, followed by the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz. Some well-known television personalities that started their careers at WMDT include Bonnie Bernstein (of ESPN), Mike Tobin, Gregg Jarrett of the Fox News Channel, and Greg Fishel now with WRAL-TV. WMDT has re-launched a sports department in April 2014. It airs a public affairs program, Good Things Delmarva, on Sunday mornings