WSJV
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| Elkhart / South Bend, Indiana Centreville / Benton Harbor, Michigan |
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| Branding | Fox 28 (general) Fox 28 News (news) |
| Slogan | When You Want It! |
| Channels | Digital: 28 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Fox Live Well Network (DT2) |
| Owner | Quincy Newspapers (WSJV Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | March 15, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | St. Joseph River Valley |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 52 (1954-1958) 28 (1958-2009) Digital: 58 (?-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Primary: NBC (1954-1955) ABC (1955-1995) Secondary: ABC (1954-1955) DuMont (1954-1955) |
| Transmitter power | 311 kW |
| Height | 335 m |
| Facility ID | 74007 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°36′58″N 86°11′38″W / 41.61611°N 86.19389°W |
| Website | fox28.com |
WSJV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Michiana area of Northern Indiana and Southwestern Michigan that is licensed to Elkhart. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 from a transmitter in Mishawaka, Indiana. Owned by Quincy Newspapers, the station has studios on County Road 7 in South Elkhart. Syndicated programming on WSJV includes: The Office, Two and a Half Men, Family Guy, and The Dr. Oz Show.
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[edit] Digital television
| Virtual channel |
Digital channel |
Video | Aspect | Name | Programming |
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| 28.1 | 28.3 | 720p | 16:9 | WSJV-DT | Main WSJV programming / Fox HD |
| 28.2 | 28.4 | 480i | 4:3 (letterboxed) |
Live Well Network (SD)[1][2] |
Lifestyle and health programming |
WSJV made its full conversion to digital-only operations on February 17, 2009. On that date, analog operations on channel 28 were discontinued along with the station's transitional channel 58 digital facilities. WSJV returned to channel 28 for current digital operations.
[edit] History
WSJV began broadcasting on March 15, 1954 initially as an NBC station with secondary ABC affiliation. The market was unique because it was required to use UHF as a result of VHF channels from nearby Chicago. It was owned by Elkhart's daily newspaper The Truth. In 1955, the channel became a sole ABC affiliate after losing its NBC affiliation to WNDU-TV. During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[3]
Initially broadcasting on channel 52, WSJV switched to channel 28 in 1958. WSJV began broadcasting in color in 1966 after ABC began airing some of its programs in color in 1961. All local shows aired in color starting in 1968. In 1971 and 1972, it was completely remodeled and enlarged to the station's present facility. In 1974, the Truth Publishing Company sold WSJV to Quincy Newspapers.
[edit] As a Fox affiliate (1995-present)
On October 18, 1995, this channel became a Fox affiliate due to that network's desire to carry its NFL coverage on a full-power station rather than low-powered W58BT; that station took the ABC affiliation and is now WBND-LP (channel 57, which moved from channel 58 in 2002 to allow WSJV to use that channel for its pre-transition digital facilities). At that point, WSJV's 40-year stint as an ABC affiliate came to an end. Before the switch, WSJV was the longest-tenured ABC affiliate in the state of Indiana; an honor now held by WPTA in Fort Wayne.
As of September 1, 2011, WSJV is one of only two remaining Fox affiliates in the state of Indiana, along with WXIN in Indianapolis, where Fox network programming airs on the main channel; the Fox affiliations in Terre Haute, Evansville and Fort Wayne are all carried on digital subchannels of stations whose main channel carries an affiliation with a Big Three network as they replaced former Fox affiliates in Evansville[4], Fort Wayne[5], and Terre Haute[6]. The switches were the result of a dispute over retransmission consent fees between Nexstar (owners/managers of ex-Fox affiliates in Fort Wayne, Evansville, and Terre Haute) and Fox.
[edit] News operation
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This section requires expansion with: information of WSJV's news department prior to and since the affiliation switch to Fox. |
Currently, WSJV produces a total of 22 hours of local newscasts each week (with four hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
[edit] News/station presentation
[edit] Newscast titles
[edit] Station slogans
- "We`re The One You Can Turn To, 28" (1978-1979, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "We're Still The One, on 28" (1979–1980, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "You and Me and 28" (1980–1981, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "Now is the Time, 28 is the Place" (1981–1982, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "Come On Along with 28" (1982–1983, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "We're With You on 28" (1984–1985, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "Hello Michiana, WSJV Loves You" (mid 1980s-1993, used during period station used Frank Gari's "Hello News")
- "You'll Love It on 28" (1985–1986, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "Together on 28" (1986–1987, localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- "On Your Side" (1991–1995)
- "Accurate. Dependable." (2007–2010)
- "When You Want It!" (2010–present)
[edit] News team[7]
Anchors
- Traci Capellman - weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Steve DuVal - weekday mornings; also morning weather anchor
- Tom Powell - weeknights at 10 p.m.
FOX 28 Guaranteed Forecast Team
- John Fischer (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Ken Garcia - meteorologist; weekday mornings
- Courtney Jorgensen - meteorologist; weekends at 10 p.m.
Sports team (both seen on Sports Extra)
- Dean Huppert - sports director; weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Allison Hayes - sports anchor; weekends at 10 p.m., also sports reporter
Reporters
- Britt Conway - weekday morning reporter
- Trevor Shirley - multimedia journalist
[edit] Former staff
- Rachel Boesing - weekend weather/reporter (1994–1996; last at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles)
- Mike Brookbank - ? (Digital Host for Detroit Free Press & WWJ-TV, CBS Detroit Detroit Free Press in Detroit)
- Josh Boose - (now anchor/reporter at WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York)
- Patti Ann Browne - anchor/reporter; (now reporter at Fox News Channel)
- Diane Daniels - ? (now anchor/reporter at WSBT-TV)
- Jay Dunlap - anchor (1992–1995)
- Kevin Freeman - reporter (1990–1992; now Sunday morning anchor/reporter at WJW-TV in Cleveland)
- Ed Greenberger - anchor
- Gene Kang - reporter (now reporter at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KY)
- Jack Kuenzie - reporter (1982–1984; now reporter at WIS-TV in Columbia, SC)
- Jack Lorri - sports director
- Ann Nyberg - anchor/reporter (now anchor/reporter at WTNH-TV in Hartford, CT)
- Elishah Oesch - weekday morning anchor (now morning anchor at WKOW-TV in Madison, WI)
- Paul Petitte - anchor/reporter (last at KSNW-TV in Wichita, KS)
- Betsy Ross - anchor/reporter (later an ESPN reporter and SportsCenter anchor, now President of sports public relations firm in Cincinnati)
- Mark Schirripa - reporter (now reporter at WSBT-AM)
- Dave Schroeder - Sports Anchor, WLOX-TV Biloxi, MS
- Rick Schutt - anchor (now anchor at WICD-TV in Springfield, IL)
- Garry Seith - weekend weather (now morning meteorologist at KTVT-TV in Dallas-Ft. Worth)
- Adam Shapiro - reporter (now reporter at Fox Business Network)
- Patti Tripathi - fill-in anchor/reporter (later at CNN, now heading up a media relations company)
- Dan Weist - reporter (later at Ohio News Network)
- Paul Baltes - anchor/reporter (1997-2004, later at WOWT in Omaha, now media relations for The Nebraska Medical Center)
- Phil Lengyel - anchor/news director ( ?, later senior vp-marketing & sports at Walt Disney World and now executive vp/chief marketing officer at Indianapolis Motor Speedway)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=20656773#post20656773
- ^ http://livewellnetwork.com/wsjvc-schedule/8190044
- ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", Boxoffice: 13, November 10, 1956, http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_111056-1
- ^ "FOX ends affiliation with WTVW," from Evansville Courier & Press, May 11, 2011.
- ^ Nexstar's Fort Wayne Fox Going Independent, Broadcasting & Cable, July 19, 2011.
- ^ Foulkes, Arthur (June 30, 2011). "Channel 38 switching from Fox to ABC". Tribune-Star. http://tribstar.com/news/x925648418/Channel-38-switching-from-Fox-to-ABC. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ^ News team
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