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{{Short description|Television station in Elkhart, Indiana}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WSJV
| city = Elkhart, Indiana
| atsc3 = yes
| logo = WSJV28.png
| branding = WSJV 28
| digital = 30 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 28
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''28.1:''' [[Heroes & Icons|H&I]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Gray Media]], sale pending to [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]]
| licensee = Gray Television Licensee, [[LLC]]
| location = [[Elkhart, Indiana|Elkhart]]–[[South Bend, Indiana]]
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age|1954|3|20|p=y|br=yes}}
| callsign_meaning = [[St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)|St. Joseph River]] Valley
| sister_stations = [[WNDU-TV]]
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 52 (UHF, 1954–1958), 28 (UHF, 1958–2009)|'''Digital:''' 58 (UHF, 2002–2009), 28 (UHF, 2009–2019)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1954–1995)|[[NBC]] (1954–1955)|[[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] (1954–1955)|[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] (1995–2016)}}
| erp = 258 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|332.6|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 74007
| coordinates = {{Coord|41|37|0|N|86|13|1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.wndu.com/}}
}}

'''WSJV''' (channel 28) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Elkhart, Indiana]], United States, serving the [[South Bend]] area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network [[Heroes & Icons]]. It is owned by [[Gray Media]] alongside [[NBC]] affiliate [[WNDU-TV]] (channel 16). The two stations share studios on the [[University of Notre Dame]] campus along [[Indiana State Road 933|State Road 933]] on South Bend's north side; WSJV's transmitter is co-located within the [[WSBT-TV]] (channel 22) site on Ironwood Road in South Bend.

WSJV began broadcasting in 1954 as the NBC and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate for the Elkhart–South Bend area, losing NBC to WNDU-TV when that station started in 1955. It broadcast on channel 52 before moving to channel 28 in 1958. After Fox acquired the rights to [[NFL on Fox|National Football League games]] in 1994, it began looking for new affiliates in markets where it had none, with South Bend the largest such market. [[Quincy Newspapers]] then switched the station from ABC to Fox.

In 2016, Quincy sold the programming rights and Fox affiliation to WSBT-TV, where Fox became a subchannel. Since then, WSJV has broadcast national [[digital multicast television network]]s. Gray successfully petitioned the FCC to let it keep WSJV when it acquired Quincy in 2021. WSJV serves as the market's [[ATSC 3.0]] (NextGen TV) host station, with four other commercial stations in the market each broadcasting some of WSJV's subchannels in [[ATSC 1.0]] format on its behalf.