Editing WSJV (section)

===Quincy Newspapers ownership===
In 1974, Truth Publishing sold WSJV for $3.2 million to [[Quincy Newspapers Inc.]] (QNI) of [[Quincy, Illinois]]; it retained the radio stations, which continued to operate for a time from the same building.<ref name="Sout740906">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-truth-publishing/127496902/|date=September 6, 1974|page=17|title=Truth Publishing Co. Sells Channel 28|newspaper=The South Bend Tribune|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703065255/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-truth-publishing/127496902/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Fri --> At the time, Quincy's only television property was [[WGEM-TV]] in its home city.<ref>{{Cite news|page=9|title=Elkhart UHF sold for $3.2 million|date=September 9, 1974|work=Broadcasting|id={{ProQuest|1016874032}} }}</ref> The sale earned Truth Publishing a tax certificate from the FCC because it broke up cross-ownership of the South Bend cable system, which was founded by the three major commercial stations in the market.<ref name="Indi791114">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-publishing-company/127496982/|date=November 14, 1979|page=59|title=Publishing Company Awarded Certificate|newspaper=The Indianapolis Star|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703065255/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-publishing-company/127496982/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Wed --> In 1976, the station debuted an 11 p.m. newscast, having previously only broadcast local news at 6 p.m.<ref name="Sout760307">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-wsjv-to-add-11-p/159701161/|date=March 7, 1976|page=69|title=WSJV to Add 11 p.m. News|newspaper=The South Bend Tribune|location=South Bend, Indiana|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 25, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun -->

On April 3, 1988, the station's tower was partially toppled by a windstorm.<ref name="Sout880404">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-at-28-show-must/127497216/|date=April 4, 1988|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-wsjv-tower/127497258/ A13]|first=Jeff|last=Kurowski|title=At 28, show must go on, but... Workers stay on the job yet station off air|newspaper=The South Bend Tribune|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703065255/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-at-28-show-must/127497216/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Mon --> The station began broadcasting at reduced power the next day, but a replacement mast was not put into service until November.<ref name="Sout940327">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-wsjv-tv-marks-its/127497369/|date=March 27, 1994|page=E9|first=Christa|last=Wright|title=WSJV-TV marks its 40th year on air|newspaper=The South Bend Tribune|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703065256/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-wsjv-tv-marks-its/127497369/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sun -->

WSJV began airing weekend newscasts for the first time in its history in 1992; the station had previously only aired weeknight newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m., which news director and 20-year employee Larry Ford believed had severely hurt its local image and contributed to its status as a distant third in Michiana television news.<ref name="Sout920216">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-channel-28-plans/127497298/|date=February 16, 1992|page=F1|first=Alesia I.|last=Redding|title=Channel 28 plans to launch weekend newscasts|newspaper=The South Bend Tribune|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 3, 2023|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703065817/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-channel-28-plans/127497298/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sun --> The move came after Don Fuller, a charter station employee who had been general manager for WSJV since 1965, retired that year.{{r|Sout940327}} Under Ford's replacement, Jim Parisi, the station added a 5 p.m. newscast featuring an interactive news format soliciting feedback from viewers by telephone and email, the first such newscast in the United States; Parisi, who co-anchored, could read emails live on air from a computer placed on the news set.<ref>{{cite news|title=Viewers choose the news they want to use|first=Chad|last=Rubel|work=[[Marketing News]]|date=August 24, 1995|id={{ProQuest|216299465}} }}</ref> The station also debuted a half-hour morning local newscast and sought to increase its presence in areas of the market beyond Elkhart so as to reduce the perception it was "an Elkhart station".<ref name="TBW">{{Cite news|first=Susan E.|last=Miller|title=Working to change the way we view TV|work=Tribune Business Weekly|id={{ProQuest|220951792}}|page=4|date=October 19, 1994}}</ref>