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Full-power digital · channel 27 · BALTIMORE, MD
| Facility ID | 59442 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | SCRIPPS BROADCASTING HOLDINGS LLC |
| Community of licence | BALTIMORE, MD
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 | 39.33472, -76.65056 |
| Effective radiated power | 830 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 391.6 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 | https://www.wmar2news.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 2
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 795325 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 795668 | 4 | LPD | |
| facility 795260 | 6 | LPD | |
| facility 796551 | 10 | LPD | |
| WJZ-TV | 11 | DTV | CBS TELEVISION LICENSES LLC |
| WBAL-TV | 12 | DTV | WBAL HEARST TELEVISION INC. |
| facility 794156 | 13 | LPD | |
| facility 794649 | 13 | LPD | |
| WLZH-LD | 14 | LPD | ZEBRA MEDIA, LLC |
| WMPB | 22 | DTV | MARYLAND PUBLIC BROADCASTING COMMISSION |
| WWDD-LD | 24 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC |
| WNUV | 25 | DTV | BALTIMORE (WNUV-TV) LICENSEE, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WMAR-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WMAR-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.