The institutional production houses in succession: Golden Dome to Fighting Irish Media at the university across the line, and WNIT's own producers and programmes — with the no-campus line stated for this ground

1980s–2026 · University of Notre Dame and WNIT, South Bend (boundary)

The university's line, in succession: Golden Dome Productions was the University of Notre Dame's production company, begun in the early 1980s and based at WNDU — created, on the Indiana Broadcast History Archive's record, by Bazil "Baz" O'Hagan, WNDU's longtime chief engineer turned president and general manager of Michiana Telecasting — and grown by the late 1980s into a large faith-and-values production house; its archive at Notre Dame is built around Today's Life Choices, its series of thirty-minute programmes on contemporary social issues, produced on location across the United States and overseas. In 2001 the university dissolved Golden Dome; four of its people — Christopher Salvador, Larry Bilinski, Douglas Thomas and James Salvador — formed New Group Media from its client base, a successor by personnel rather than by charter. The campus production house that stands in the line today is Fighting Irish Media: founded in 2011 as Fighting Irish Digital Media by a small group under director of digital media Dan Skendzel, grown from a corner room in Notre Dame Stadium to the Joyce Center and then to the Rex and Alice A. Martin Media Center — the 18,000-square-foot facility in Corbett Family Hall on the stadium's east side, opened in August 2017, which it shares with Notre Dame Studios and Grotto Network, and from which it produces the athletics department's live broadcasts, videoboard shows and documentary work, including the 2024 Peacock docuseries Here Come the Irish.

Public television's producers: WNIT (channel 34, PBS Michiana), owned by the Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation of South Bend and on air since 31 January 1974, is a producing station, not only a carrier: its own weekly local series, as its federal filings and programme record name them, are Dinner & a Book, EducationCounts Michiana, Experience Michiana, Politically Speaking, Economic Outlook and Outdoor Elements, with periodic specials and documentaries including the Legends of Michiana series and, in 2025, Echoes of the Great Migration. The banked Newspapers material already carries WNIT's other Granger-facing fact — its operation of the PEG access channel under the 2012 interlocal agreement — and this article adds only the producing record the audit row requires: the programmes are named, they are WNIT's and South Bend's, and none is a Granger production.

For this ground:Granger's institutional-producing share is therefore stated plainly: no university production company, no successor campus house, and no public-television producer is or was seated on this ground; the institutional producers of Granger children's own university and of the region's public station sit across the line, and are printed here at boundary size so the absence on this ground stands on evidence rather than on silence.

Sources:

1. Notre Dame Archives / ArchivesSpace, Golden Dome Productions record group (dates 1980s– ; Today's Life Choices); New Group Media company history (Golden Dome begun early 1980s; dissolved 2001; the four founders); Indiana Broadcast History Archive, Bazil O'Hagan entry (the creation of Golden Dome Productions at WNDU); Fighting Irish Media record (founded 2011 as Fighting Irish Digital Media; Skendzel; the Martin Media Center) and Sports Video Group / Telos Alliance facility accounts (Martin Media Center opened August 2017; FIM's 2011 founding and facilities); WNIT station record and Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation federal filing excerpts (on air 31 January 1974; the six weekly local series and the specials, as named); banked Schools section (the no-college negative).