Rootz DTV › station
Full-power digital · channel 36 · SOUTH BEND, IN
| Facility ID | 36117 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION, INC. |
| Community of licence | SOUTH BEND, IN
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 41.59528, -86.16056 |
| Effective radiated power | 260 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 549.8 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.whme.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 8
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
| Content-Signal | search=yes,ai-train=no,use=reference |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W11EN-D | 11 | LPD | |
| WEID-LD | 16 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| facility 795638 | 17 | LPD | |
| facility 795649 | 18 | LPD | |
| facility 795566 | 19 | LPD | |
| facility 795713 | 20 | LPD | |
| facility 795652 | 24 | LPD | |
| WCWW-LD | 25 | LPD | WCWW-TV LIMITED PARTNERSHIP |
| WNDU-TV | 27 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| WMYS-LD | 28 | LPD | WBND-TV LIMITED PARTNERSHIP |
| WSBT-TV | 29 | DTV | WSBT LICENSEE, LLC |
| WNIT | 31 | DTV | MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WHME-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WHME-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.