Creator / MeTV

"You're watching Memorable Entertainment Television; ME-TV, broadcasting nationwide from right here in Chicago."

— The Announcer, in a older pre-show spiel.

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ME-TV (stylized as MeTV, and as a backronym for its on-air slogan "Memorable Entertainment Television") is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that airs classic television sitcoms, dramas and classic commercials from the CBS Television Distribution (owners of the Paramount Television library), NBCUniversal Television Distribution, and 20th Television libraries, and a few from Sony Pictures Television, as well as several shows from other libraries that aired from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Warner Bros. Television later added some of their programming to MeTV's library.

Starting out as a local television station exclusive to Chicago (much to the rejoice of the people living in the Windy City), MeTV soon expanded to nearby Milwaukee (where Weigel owns a few stations), before becoming a national network. Since then, it has quickly become a national sensation through word of mouth.

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A list of shows that have aired on MeTV:

• Adam-12
• The Adventures of Superman
• ALF
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Barnaby Jones
• Batman
• Bat Masterson
• Battlestar Galactica
• The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Big Valley
• The Bob Newhart Show
• Bonanza
• The Brady Bunch
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Cannon
• Car 54, Where Are You?
• Carol Burnett and Friends
• Charlie's Angels
• Collector's Call
• Columbo
• Combat! (1962)
• Daniel Boone
• Diagnosis: Murder
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• Dragnet
• Emergency!
• Family Affair
• The Flintstones
• F Troop
• The Fugitive
• Get Smart
• Gilligan's Island
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
• Green Acres
• Gunsmoke
• Happy Days
• Have Gun – Will Travel
• Hawaii Five-O
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
• Highway Patrol
• Hogan's Heroes
• The Honeymooners
• I Love Lucy
• In the Heat of the Night
• The Incredible Hulk (1977)
• The Invaders

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• Ironside (1967)
• The Jeffersons
• The Jetsons
• Kojak
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker
• Land of the Giants
• Laverne & Shirley
• Leave It to Beaver
• Lost in Space
• The Love Boat
• MacGyver
• Make Room For Daddy
• Mama's Family
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Mannix
• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• M*A*S*H
• Matlock
• Maverick
• McCloud
• McMillan & Wife
• Mission: Impossible
• The Mod Squad
• The Monkees
• Mr. Lucky
• My Three Sons
• Naked City
• Night Gallery
• The Outer Limits (1963)
• Perry Mason
• Peter Gunn
• Petticoat Junction
• The Phil Silvers Show
• Planet of the Apes
• The Powers of Matthew Star
• Quincy, M.E.
• Rawhide
• The Rebel
• Remington Steele
• Rhoda
• The Rifleman
• The Rockford Files
• Route 66
• The Saint
• Saved by the Bell
• She-Ra: Princess of Power
• Sledge Hammer!
• Star Trek: The Original Series
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Svengoolie
• Swamp Thing
• Taxi
• The Three Stooges
• Thriller
• The Time Tunnel
• Toon In with Me
  • Looney Tunes
  • Tom and Jerry
  • Tex Avery MGM Cartoons
  • Popeye
• Touched by an Angel
• Trackdown
• Twelve O'Clock High
• The Twilight Zone (1959)
• The Untouchables
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• Wagon Train
• The Waltons
• Wanted: Dead or Alive
• The Wild Wild West
• WKRP in Cincinnati
• Wonder Woman (1975)

ME TV provides examples of:

• As Himself: The network has been able to get surviving cast members to record promos for their old shows.
  "Watch me on Me."
  • Though a few promos have the actors as their old characters, including Lou Grant, Sue Ann Nivens, and Alan Brady.
• In Memoriam. Actors who have just passed are honored with an "in memory of" card and often a whole evening (or even week, in the case of M*A*S*H 's Wayne Rogers) their best appearances from one of many shows currently featured on the network.
• In the Style of...: They've aired promos which redo the opening credits of one of their shows in the style of (and to the theme music of) a different show. For example, The Andy Griffith Show in the style of CHiPs.
• Made-for-TV Movie: The channel has aired them occasionally, but in Fall 2013, they began devoting a Friday night time slot to airing TV-Movies.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: "America's #1 all-classic-TV network." While there is a field of all-classic-TV networks in America, none of them have particularly high ratings.
• Pop-Up Texting: Seems to be using a campaign of TV promos featuring this.
• Spin-Off: Weigel currently leases a TV station that is audible on FM radio called MeTV FM in Chicago, which plays an oldies/beautiful music mix format of music from the 60's and 70's. Considering the TV-as-a-radio-station complexities, it's pretty well-rated (eighth in the market as of the fall of 2018) and compared to the current state of "oldies in name only" radio stations that actually play classic hits, faithful to the format. The format is now also aired on stations in Milwaukee and Flint, Michigan.
• Spiritual Successor: To Nick-at-Nite and TV Land. Several shows listed above even used to air on those networks.
  • The "Saturday Morning Cartoons" block, which shows classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and Popeye, is this to the various anthologies that featured classic cartoons in the past, and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show in particular.

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