WWLN

WWLN, virtual channel 38, (UHF digital channel 19) is a Landon Network owned-and-operated station located in Washington DC. The station is owned by LandonToei and launched on May 1, 1986. It is one of the three Landon Network affiliates available in Maryland with the other two being WNUV 54.5 in Baltimore and WSLN 53 in Salisbury.

On Verizon, it is available as channel 13 and on Philo, it's channel 17. It's sister station, WSLN 53 serves Salisbury, Maryland.

History
Channel 38 first launched as an independent affiliate owned by MCA and was signed on as WMCA 38 and aired movies. In 1992, they added news broadcasts and children's programming during the morning and afternoon hours. In 1996, the station was acquired by Viacom (with it's sister station being acquired by Tribune) and became a UPN affiliate. Serving as a secondary UPN station. With WDCA 20 being the main station. In 2000, the station was sold to LandonToei Co. in favor of Viacom keeping WDCA 20 (though Fox Television stations acquired the station 6 years later). Later the year, LandonToei also acquired WSLN 53 from Tribune. Resulting in the station losing its WB affiliate and WWLN losing its UPN affiliate. Following its launching its Digital station in 2006, it added a Toonix digital subchannel (along with sister station WSLN and now CW-affiliate, WNUV 54). In 2007, they added TV Asahi and LEC to comply with the FCC's regulations for e/i programming. Unlike Toonix, TV Asahi and LEC weren't added to WNUV 54 and were instead added to Fox-affiliate, WBFF 45. In 2020, they added Qubo as its fourth Subchannel. Following that, WNUV 54 added it as its 5th subchannel. On April 11, 2021, the station went out due to a thunderstorm. So on April 12, 2021, LandonToei signed a deal with Sinclar to temporarily add their channels to ABC station WJLA 7 until the station got fixed. But on April 14, 2021, the station announced that they would add WJLA's Litton Weekend Adventure as a 1-hour programming block on every day at 5 AM. The station also announced that they would be back on the air on April 26, 2021.

On June 23, 2021, LandonToei announced that the station would become enhanced with ATSC 3.0. With its digital subchannels being added (with the 38.x numbers) on to WRC 4 (Jetix), WDCA 20 (Playhouse), and WPXW 66 (LEC). During the process, it will also contain the first channels of WRC, WDCA and WPXW during the transition as the subchannels redirect from UHF channel 19 to UHF channel 34 (Jetix), 35 (LEC) and 36 (Playhouse). WWLN's LN ATSC 1.0 channel will be broadcasted by both WFDC 14 (UHF 15) of Washington D.C. and WMJF (UHF 23) of Baltimore, MD.

Digital Channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed: