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2008 — the present · the work the building was built for
What the plant makes: the building's principal product, from its first night, has been local news. WSBT-TV presently produces 49½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for its primary channel — eight and a half hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and three on Sundays — and a further 16 hours of newscasts each week for its Fox subchannel, three hours each weekday and a half-hour each weekend day. The Fox affiliation itself is part of the Mishawaka-era record: on 25 July 2016 Sinclair announced that WSBT's second subchannel would take the Fox affiliation from 1 August 2016, and the channel lineup as it now stands carries CBS on 22.1, Fox on 22.2 and the Charge! network on 22.3. The station's transmitter never moved with the studios: it stands on Ironwood Road in South Bend, and the license stands in South Bend with it. What crossed the line in 2008 was the making — the newsroom, the studios, the producers, editors and crews — and it is the making that this section records.
The operation also kept a working tie to the radio group it was later separated from: WSBT-TV maintains a news and weather content agreement with its former sister stations, now owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting, under which the two Mishawaka-built newsrooms continue to feed each other. The agreement outlived the common ownership that created it, and it is carried here because both halves of it were, for eight years, produced in the same Mishawaka building.
Sources
- WSBT-TV station record, verified November 2026 — 49½ hours of locally produced newscasts weekly on the primary channel, plus 16 hours weekly for the Fox subchannel; subchannel lineup CBS 22.1, Fox 22.2, Charge! 22.3; transmitter on Ironwood Road, South Bend; news and weather content agreement with the former sister radio stations.
- Sinclair Broadcast Group announcement, 25 July 2016 — WSBT-DT2 to affiliate with Fox beginning 1 August 2016.