WSJV
| ATSC 3.0 station | |
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| City | Elkhart, Indiana |
| Channels | |
| Branding | WSJV 28 |
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| WSBT-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | March 20, 1954 |
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Call sign meaning | St. Joseph River Valley |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 74007 |
| ERP | 258 kW |
| HAAT | 332.6 m (1,091 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°37′0″N 86°13′1″W / 41.61667°N 86.21694°W |
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Public license information | |
WSJV (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Elkhart, Indiana, United States, serving the South Bend area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Heroes & Icons. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CBS/Fox affiliate WSBT-TV (channel 22). The two stations share studios on East Douglas Avenue in Mishawaka and transmitter facilities on Ironwood Road in South Bend, near the St. Joseph County 4-H Fairgrounds.
WSJV began broadcasting in 1954 as the NBC and ABC affiliate for the Elkhart–South Bend area, losing NBC to WNDU-TV (channel 16) when that station started in 1955. It broadcast on channel 52 before moving to channel 28 in 1958. After Fox acquired the rights to National Football League games in 1994, it began looking for new affiliates in markets where it had none, with South Bend the largest such market. Quincy Newspapers then switched the station from ABC to Fox.
In 2016, Quincy sold the programming rights and Fox affiliation to WSBT-TV, where Fox became a subchannel. Since then, WSJV has broadcast national digital multicast television networks. Gray Television successfully petitioned the FCC to let it keep WSJV when it acquired Quincy in 2021 and traded it to Sinclair in 2025. WSJV serves as the market's ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) host station, with four other commercial stations in the market each broadcasting some of WSJV's subchannels in ATSC 1.0 format on its behalf.