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The FCC record, tested November 2026
The frame finding: every production seat in this section works under a license held by another city. The Federal Communications Commission's licensed-station record for Indiana, read station by station, carries no radio station whose city of license is Mishawaka — not one AM or FM entry among the state's hundreds. The television side divides the same way: the full-power stations whose signals cover Mishawaka are licensed to South Bend — WSBT-TV (channel 22), WNDU-TV (channel 16) and WNIT (channel 34) — or to Elkhart, where WSJV (channel 28) holds its license. The test is bounded as it was run: it covers full-power licenses of record; low-power stations and FM translators, which relay other stations' programs and hold no originating license of their own in the sense used here, were not separately enumerated, and no claim is printed for them either way.
The consequence is the shape of the whole file. When this chapter says a station is "produced in Mishawaka," it means the studios, the newsroom and the work stand on Mishawaka ground, while the license — the legal seat the FCC recognizes — stands in South Bend or Elkhart or, in one case below, in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mishawaka's production history is therefore not a history of stations the city owns on paper. It is a history of where the work moved, and when, and what followed it.
Sources
- Federal Communications Commission licensed-station listings for Indiana (radio), read in full, November 2026 — no entry carries Mishawaka as city of license.
- The stations' own published records for their licenses of record: WSBT-TV, WNDU-TV and WNIT licensed to South Bend; WSJV licensed to Elkhart.