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WMFD-TV is a television station broadcasting from Mansfield, Ohio and serving the North Central Ohio area. The station was licensed on June 1, 1992. It claims to be the first independent digital station in the country, starting broadcasting using a digital transmitter in 1998. Its digital signal is broadcast on channel 12, and, in order to reach the wider audience that does not have a digital tuner, it broadcasts an analog signal on channel 68. (It does not broadcast in High Definition.) The station is owned by Mid-State Television, Inc. headed by Gunther Meisse, who also owns television station WOHZ-CA channel 50, and radio stations WVNO-FM 106.1 and WRGM (AM) 1440.

As the only television station serving the North Central Ohio area, the station concentrates on local programming with hour long early evening and 10 p.m. newscasts. It fills out its schedule with syndicated programming and infomericals. The station is also included in the Cleveland local channels package on DirecTV and can thus be seen by DirecTV customers throughout Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

Channel 68 was previously the home of WCEO-TV licensed January 10, 1986, which became WCOM on July 24, 1987. Those stations attempted to enter the Columbus market using a transmitter with a very high tower south of Mansfield, but they never achieved cable carriage and went dark in 1989. It returned to the air with its current channel and call letters on June 1, 1992.

WMFD were the call letters of present day WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina from the station's start in 1954 until 1958.

• Tallest structures in the United States, relating to the old WCOM tower.

• Station web site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMFD

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