WSJV

WSJV

ATSC 3.0 station
Elkhart–South Bend, Indiana United States
City	Elkhart, Indiana
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 28
Branding	WSJV 28
Programming
Affiliations	28.1: H&I for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	WNDU-TV
History
First air date	March 20, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-03-20)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 52 (UHF, 1954–1958), 28 (UHF, 1958–2009) Digital: 58 (UHF, 2002–2009), 28 (UHF, 2009–2019)
Former affiliations	ABC (1954–1995) NBC (1954–1955) DuMont (1954–1955) Fox (1995–2016)
Call sign meaning	St. Joseph River Valley
Technical information[1]
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 / 41.61667; -86.21694
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wndu.com

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 Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate WNDU-TV (channel 16). The two stations share studios on the University of Notre Dame campus along State Road 933 on South Bend's north side; WSJV's transmitter is co-located within the WSBT-TV (channel 22) site on Ironwood Road in South Bend.

WSJV began broadcasting in 1954 as the NBC and ABC affiliate for the Elkhart–South Bend area, losing NBC to WNDU-TV 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. At the time, Quincy was interested in possibly selling the station's spectrum, which could have been valuable; since that time, WSJV has broadcast national digital multicast television networks. Gray successfully petitioned the FCC to let it keep WSJV when it acquired Quincy in 2021. 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.