Schurz Communications, Inc. is an American broadband media group and cloud services provider based in South Bend, Indiana . It previously owned newspapers and television stations.
14-476: WNIT may refer to: WNIT (TV) , a television station in South Bend, Indiana (channel 31, virtual 34) Women's National Invitation Tournament Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WNIT . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
28-518: The Gannett newspaper chain, and the expanded network of newspapers adopted the Gannett name. In March 2019 Schurz Communications bought the city-owned local broadband company Burlington Telecom of Burlington, Vermont for a total of $ 30.8 million. Rushmore Media Company, Inc. was a small radio broadcasting subsidiary, which owned and operated four radio stations and one television station in
42-551: The klystron tube that powered WNIT's transmitter failed, which reduced WNIT's analog signal strength to only 15 percent of its normal 1.38 million- watt effective radiated power . The transmitter's major signal amplifiers subsequently failed on March 25, completely disabling the station's analog signal. With analog broadcasting due to end in the United States in 2009 , the station opted to broadcast solely in digital. Most viewers did not lose access to WNIT programming due to
56-689: The Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation. The station's studios are located at the corner of Lafayette and Jefferson Boulevards in downtown South Bend, and its transmitter is located just off of the St. Joseph Valley Parkway in the southern portion of South Bend. WNIT's antenna and transmitter were purchased from KFIZ-TV in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin , after that station went dark in November 1972. The station first signed on
70-748: The Midwest with its network of seven data centers and full suite of hybrid cloud services. In December of that year, Online Tech acquired the assets and products of IT provider Neverfail. The acquisition includes Neverfail’s five cloud nodes and assets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In January 2019, Schurz sold its publishing division and all its newspapers to GateHouse Media for $ 30 million. This included 20 regional papers and several special publications in Indiana , Maryland , Michigan , Pennsylvania and South Dakota. GateHouse later bought
84-877: The Rushmore Media Company radio stations for $ 2.2 million, reuniting them with KBHB and KKLS , which Schurz had sold to HomeSlice in 2014 as part of its acquisition of KOTA-TV. Following the completion of these sales, Gray will retain KOTA-TV's ABC affiliation and transfer it to its existing television station in Rapid City, KEVN-TV ; it will also retain KOTA-TV satellite stations KDUH-TV and KSGW-TV and convert them to satellites of KNOP-TV in North Platte, Nebraska and KCWY-DT in Casper, Wyoming (both NBC affiliates), respectively. In March 2015,
98-417: The Rushmore Media Company stations, to Gray Television for $ 442.5 million. Gray subsequently announced on October 1 that it would sell the KOTA-TV license to Legacy Broadcasting for $ 1, a deal that also includes the license for satellite station KHSD-TV and the station's subchannel affiliations with MeTV and This TV ; a month later, on November 2, Gray announced that HomeSlice Media Group would acquire
112-769: The Tower Building on West Franklin Street in downtown Elkhart. This arrangement continued until May 11, 2010, when WNIT moved to CBS affiliate WSBT-TV (channel 22)'s former studio on Lafayette and Jefferson streets in downtown South Bend. On December 17, 2008, WNIT had acquired and taken possession of the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m ) facility with the assistance of an in-kind donation by WSBT's owner, Schurz Communications ; that station had moved to new facilities in Mishawaka in September 2008. In December 2020,
126-660: The air in February 1974 (the "-TV" suffix was used in the call letters from 1974 to 1989). Prior to the station's launch, PBS programs had been offered to the market's commercial stations on a per-program basis, while Chicago member station WTTW was available over-the-air in the extreme western portions of the market. Channel 34's original studio facilities were located at the Elkhart Area Career Center on California Road in Elkhart . On February 26, 2008,
140-661: The company sold the Imperial Valley Press newspaper based in El Centro, California . In September 2016, The American News and Farm Forum, owned by Schurz, acquired The Public Opinion newspaper in Watertown, South Dakota from United Communications . In February 2018, the company acquired the Ann Arbor, Michigan -based Online Tech . The compliant hybrid cloud provider serves nearly 500 clients across
154-671: The creation of the South Bend Tribune . Over the years, the company grew through the acquisition of other newspapers, media outlets, radio and television stations, digital companies, broadband operations and cloud services provider. The expanding company was renamed Schurz Communications Inc. in 1976, when the newspapers division and the TV/broadcast division were split into separate entities. Schurz Communications announced on September 14, 2015 that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including
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#1732775687166168-475: The high penetration of cable and satellite television in the area. On January 11, 2009, a fire severely damaged WNIT's administrative offices in Elkhart; there were no injuries resulting from the fire and the station's broadcast facilities and programming were unaffected. Local program production continued at the Elkhart Area Career Center and the station's administrative offices moved to a temporary location in
182-540: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WNIT&oldid=1020935189 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WNIT (TV) WNIT (channel 34) is a PBS member television station in South Bend, Indiana , United States, owned by
196-455: The station re-branded as PBS Michiana and adopted the current PBS logo. The station's signal is multiplexed : WNIT's analog signal, over UHF channel 34, shut down on March 25, 2008, due to the problems with its analog transmitter. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using virtual channel 34. Schurz Communications The company was founded in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett with
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