WSBT-TV (channel 22) is a television station in South Bend, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox.
Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on East Douglas Avenue in Mishawaka, and its transmitter is located on Ironwood Road in South Bend, near the St. Joseph County 4-H Fairgrounds.
It was the first UHF station in the United States to produce a live telecast, a five-minute local news bulletin.
In the fall of that year, WSBT became the first television station in the country to present a closed-circuit telecast of a college football practice.
WSBT-TV was also the first station in Indiana to broadcast in color, starting in 1954 in new studios designed by architect William Pereira.
[14] The sale separated channel 22 from both the South Bend Tribune, which Schurz would keep, and the WSBT Radio Group, which was sold to Mid-West Family Broadcasting.
[17] Sinclair's purchase of WSBT also marked a re-entry into Indiana as the company had owned WTTV/WTTK in Indianapolis from 1996 before that station was sold to Tribune Broadcasting in 2002.
As a result of the sale, fellow CBS affiliate WWMT to the north in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which serves the Grand Rapids market, became a sister station to WSBT.
On September 5, 2006, the station began producing a half-hour weeknight 10 p.m. newscast on its second digital subchannel (currently branded as WSBT 22 News at 10 on Fox Michiana), after WSBT-DT2 lost its UPN affiliation.
On November 16, 2008, WSBT became the first television station in the South Bend market to being broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
[25] From 2017 to 2023, WSBT produced newscasts for Sinclair sister station WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio,[26][27] and continues to do so for WOLF-TV in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.