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1952-1957 1957-196? 196?-196? 1969-1973
1952-1957 1957-196? 196?-196? 1969-1973
1973-1990 1990-1994 1994-2013 2013-present
1973-1990 1990-1994 1994-2013 2013-present

1952–1957[]

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WSBT-TV first signed on the air on December 21, 1952, and was owned by the South Bend Tribune. It was originally affiliated with all four major networks of the time: it was a primary CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and DuMont; it lost the latter three networks when WSJV (channel 28, now a Heroes & Icons affiliate) signed on in March 1954. It was the first UHF station in the United States to produce a live telecast, a five-minute local news bulletin. Although WSBT is the oldest continuously operating UHF station in the country, it switched channels once during the analog era. Originally broadcasting on UHF channel 34, the station moved to channel 22 in 1958.

1957–196?[]

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196?–196?[]

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1969-1973[]

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1973–1990[]

WSBT (1973)

1990–1994[]

WSBT (1990)

1994–2013[]

WSBT 90s
Designer:  Television by Design
Typography:  Helvetica Neue (logo; graphics from 1994-1997 and 2007-2013)
Bank Gothic (graphics, 1997-2007)
Myriad Pro (graphics, 1997-2007)
Launched:  1994

2013–present[]

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Schurz announced on September 14, 2015, that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations to Gray Television for $442.5 million. Gray already owned WNDU-TV (channel 16) in South Bend. Despite WSBT-TV's higher ratings, Gray kept WNDU and sold WSBT-TV to expedite approval of the deal; on October 1, 2015, Gray announced that the station would be swapped to Sinclair Broadcast Group for WLUC-TV in Marquette, Michigan. 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. The FCC approved the sale on February 12, 2016, and the sale would be completed on February 16. 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.

On July 25, 2016, Sinclair announced that WSBT-DT2 would affiliate with Fox beginning on August 1, 2016. Quincy Media had reached an agreement to transfer the affiliation from WSJV in exchange for the ABC and CW affiliations in Peoria, Illinois from Sinclair-owned WHOI.

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