Broadcast at the boundary: heard here, seated elsewhere

1922–2026

No station has ever been seated on this ground; the whole broadcast record of Granger is a record of being covered and being reached. The station test prints first: in the licensing and association records reached, no radio or television station is or was licensed to Granger, and no studio stands or stood inside the designated place. The market's stations are the cities' whole — the Tribune company's WGAZ of 1922, now WSBT radio; WSBT-TV (1952) and WNDU and the Weigel stations in South Bend; WNIT, the public station (on air February 1974) — and their histories are dug in South Bend's and Mishawaka's builds, not here. What this section owns is the Granger-specific remainder, and it is not nothing. The stations cover the place as news ground: the data-center fight of 2024–2026 ran on the Tribune's pages and on the market's television in parallel, and the fire-territory and election records this build cites reach Granger households as broadcast news first and print second — the Government leg's own account of the November 2026 township results notes that the broadcast results service carried the county races (and not the townships'), which is the modern shape of the boundary: the stations' map of what matters stops, as it always has, at the county's offices.

The one broadcast institution whose charter names this ground's residents as its public is the county's access channel. Its course is documented in the cities' paperwork: Comcast, citing the state's preemption of local cable franchises, dropped the public, education, and government channel's studio and production support in December 2007; the county and the two cities answered with an interlocal agreement (South Bend Common Council Resolution 4152-12, February 2012) under which WNIT — the public station, a nonprofit whose service area the agreement recites as including all of St. Joseph County — operates the PEG channel 99, broadcasting the county's and cities' meetings and "other matters of public interest." WNIT's own annual reporting (fiscal 2023) carries the arrangement forward as Michiana Access Television, on channel 99 on both cable systems, with the station providing "the facilities and personnel needed for private individuals to broadcast, at no charge, their own public access television shows." A Granger resident's access to a studio has therefore run, since 2012, through a South Bend public station under a county contract — the precise broadcast form of the place's whole media condition. No Granger-seated cable system, low-power station, or access studio stands in any record reached, and the negative prints with the tests in the closing article.

Sources:

1. Schurz Communications' published history: WGAZ (now WSBT radio) launched 1922; WSBT Television 1952 — the market's founding stations, at pointer size.
2. WNIT: on air February 1974 (the station's record); FY2023 annual report — Michiana Access Television on Comcast and AT&T channel 99 under contract to St. Joseph County and the cities of South Bend and Mishawaka, facilities for individuals' own shows at no charge.
3. City of South Bend records: Information and Technology Committee, January 28, 2008 (Comcast's December 2007 dropping of PEG studio support); Common Council Resolution 4152-12 (February 2012), approving the interlocal service agreement for PEG Channel 99 with WNIT.
4. The Government leg of this build: the November 2026 results as carried (county races) and not carried (township races) by the broadcast results service.