Affiliates
As of 2012, Me-TV has current or pending affiliation agreements with television stations in over 128 television markets in 44 states, covering approximately 82% of the United States (of these affiliates, 17 stations carry the network as a formal primary channel affiliation and two are general entertainment stations that air select Me-TV programs on a tape-delayed basis). Me-TV currently does not have affiliates either within or overlapping any part of five states: Alaska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland affiliate WBAL-TV (whose signal overlaps the northwestern three-quarters of the state) serves as the network's de facto Delaware affiliate as Me-TV is not available on a station licensed within the state. Like sister network This TV, some of Me-TV's affiliates include regional descriptors reflecting the station's primary broadcast area underneath the on-screen logo bug displayed during the network's programming (these descriptors are also used in the customized station identifications shown at the top of each hour between programs or during commercial breaks, which differ from the silent lower third in-program IDs seen on This TV).
On January 7, 2011, KCTU-LD/Wichita became the first non-Weigel owned station to carry the Me-TV network. However, that station's affiliation with the network lasted only about one week and ended after KCTU-LD and Me-TV could not come to terms on a contract. In early 2011, Bahakel Communications became the first non-Weigel station group to sign selected stations to carry Me-TV on their digital subchannels, with the WCCB (Charlotte, North Carolina) and WOLO-TV (Columbia, South Carolina) subchannels beginning transmissions in early March of that year. On April 4, 2011, it was announced that Me-TV had signed with 14 broadcasting companies, most notably Hearst Television, Raycom Media, Cox Television, Media General, and Titan Broadcast Management to begin airing Me-TV; this brings the national Me-TV clearance mark to over 45%.
Me-TV affiliates in certain markets may not air every program on the network's lineup; as examples, two of Me-TV's digital subchannel-only affiliates carry its programming on a secondary basis while nominally serving as a primary affiliate of a major broadcast network due to a market not having enough stations for a standalone main channel affiliation; the third digital subchannel of WBBJ-TV/Jackson, Tennessee holds a primary affiliation with CBS, while the second subchannel of WIBW-TV/Topeka, Kansas is primarily affiliated with MyNetworkTV. Some of Me-TV's full-time affiliates where it is carried on a subchannel of a network-affiliated station (such as WLKY-TV/Louisville and WBAL/Baltimore) also preempt select Me-TV programs during certain morning and primetime slots in favor of local newscasts that are produced for the subchannel by that station's news department.
In two of the 10 largest U.S. television markets, New York City and Dallas, the local affiliate preempts certain Me-TV programs in favor of locally-produced, acquired or time-brokered programming (New York City affiliate WZME/Bridgeport, Connecticut and Dallas affiliate KTXD-TV/Greenville, Texas both preempt much of Me-TV's morning and late night schedule, with WZME replacing those programs with infomercials and KTXD airing mostly syndicated series and locally-produced programs in those slots). KTXD and WGCB-TV/Red Lion, Pennsylvania both offer blocks of the network's programming on their main channel's regular schedule, while running the full Me-TV network feed on a separate subchannel.
On December 13, 2012, AT&T added Me-TV to U-verse. It is carried on channel 136.
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