The second seat: Federated Media and the Planet Radio studios, Edison Road

Corporate headquarters at 245 Edison Road, Mishawaka · verified November 2026

The other production house: Mishawaka's second broadcast production seat belongs to Federated Media, a family-owned radio company — the Dille family, in radio since 1952 by the company's own account — whose corporate headquarters stand at 245 Edison Road, Suite 250, Mishawaka, and whose Michiana stations are produced from the company's "Planet Radio" studios in an Edison Road office park, a two-floor studio plant a short distance from the Schurz building. The stations made there repeat this section's frame finding exactly: not one is licensed to Mishawaka. WBYT (100.7, "B100") and WTRC (1340 AM) are licensed to Elkhart; WTRC-FM (95.3) is licensed to Niles, Michigan; WAOR (102.7) is licensed to Ligonier; and WRBR-FM (103.9) is licensed to South Bend — though its transmitter, the one piece of the cluster's hardware that does stand in this city, is in Mishawaka. The licensee of record for the group is Pathfinder Communications Corporation. The corporate seat itself is a Mishawaka fact of the same kind as the Schurz headquarters: Federated moved its headquarters from Elkhart into a building beside its Mishawaka studios, so the company's direction, like its production, is seated here while its licenses are seated elsewhere.

One cross-tie closes the entry: Federated's own company history records that it once owned WSJV television — the Elkhart station it sold in the mid-1970s, and the same WSJV that, fifty years on, is produced from the Schurz building across town as WSBT's sister. The valley's production geography has always been smaller than its license map, and Mishawaka sits at the center of the geography while appearing nowhere on the map.

Sources

1. Federated Media, company contact page, verified November 2026 — corporate headquarters at 245 Edison Rd, Suite 250, Mishawaka, IN 46545.
2. Scott Fybush, "Site of the Week" tour of the Planet Radio studios — two floors of studios in an Edison Road office park in Mishawaka; corporate headquarters moved from Elkhart into a separate building next door; WRBR-FM's transmitter in Mishawaka.
3. Station records for WBYT, WTRC, WTRC-FM, WAOR and WRBR-FM — cities of license Elkhart, Elkhart, Niles (Michigan), Ligonier and South Bend; licensee Pathfinder Communications Corporation.
4. Federated Media, company description and history — family-owned, in radio since 1952; former owner of WSJV-TV, sold 1974/75.