The Filmation library and The George Michael Sports Machine are owned by NBCUniversal, Bob Vila's Home Again is owned by Bob Vila with Telco Productions handling distribution rights, and the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is now owned by Viacom with DVD rights licensed to Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Viacom purchased CBS Corp. in 2000. D&D Beyond interest. Register Start a Wiki. Moving back to AM radio, Westinghouse returned to Chicago with its 1956 purchase of WIND. Networks generally, but not always, operate on a national scale; that is, they cover an entire country. Note: Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station that was built and signed-on by Westinghouse. Most of them were among their networks' strongest performers. It was renamed Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1954, and adopted the Group W moniker on May 20, 1963. Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. The loss of WJZ-TV's ABC affiliation did not sit well with Westinghouse. In 1995, Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired CBS for $5.4 billion. [26] KPIX in San Francisco was bought in 1954;[27] WDTV (now KDKA-TV) in Pittsburgh was added in 1955;[28][29] and WAAM (now WJZ-TV) in Baltimore was purchased in 1957. Category:Westinghouse Broadcasting | Global TV (Indonesia) Wiki | Fandom. This is John Aror, inviting you to tune in channel 3 tomorrow at 8:00. Based on these findings, a civil antitrust suit was filed against NBC and its parent company RCA, on behalf of Westinghouse in December 1956. WJZ-TV, virtual channel 13, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Westinghouse Broadcasting was formed in the 1920s as Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. Group W Productions (also known as Westinghouse Broadcasting and formerly WBC Productions) is a defunct television production company branch founded by George Westinghouse.It produced successful shows such as Evening Magazine, Hour Magazine, The Mike Douglas Show, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 version) and Martha Stewart Living.Group W was also the owner of now-CBS-owned … National Amusements retains majority control of both CBS and Viacom, while CBS's shareholders (excluding National Amusements) collectively hold a majority of Entercom as well. From that point forward, however, Westinghouse proceeded to transform itself from its legendary role as a diversified conglomerate with a strong industrial heritage into a media giant. In contrast, WMAR had been a ratings also-ran for over 30 years. Most notably, both The Mike Douglas Show and the Eyewitness News format originated on KYW-TV during its tenure in Cleveland. Filmation … It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States. [9] Westinghouse's next station was its first purchase: WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana, joined the group in August 1936. The company's largest factories were located in East Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and Lester, Pennsylvania and in Hamilton, Ontario, where they made turbines, generators, motors, and switch gear for generation, transmission, and use of electricity. WOWO, now owned by Pathfinder Communications Corporation, and two television stations, WJZ-TV and KPIX, continue to use this font as well. TNN and CMT were folded into Viacom's MTV Networks basic cable unit post-merger, with HTS and Midwest Sports Channel being sold to Comcast and News Corporation shortly afterward. The TelePrompTer acquisition also brought animation producer Filmation into the Group W fold. Westinghouse was able to escape Charlotte when it sold WPCQ (now WCNC-TV) to Odyssey Television Partners (later to become Renaissance Broadcasting) in 1985. After the merger with CBS in 1996, Westinghouse acquired Ed Wilson and Bob Cook's MaXam Entertainment and merged it with Group W Productions and CBS Enterprises (including CBS Broadcast International) to form Eyemark Entertainment, [56] with CBS Broadcast International acquiring the overseas rights to the Group W backlog. After the first few years, it franchised to Group W stations and eventually to other markets through local stations, using the name PM Magazine on non-Group W stations airing the show. It was founded on January 8, 1886, as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by its founder George Westinghouse (1846–1914). In June 1955, Westinghouse announced that it would sell its Philadelphia stations, KYW radio and WPTZ, to NBC. Eyemark was in turn folded into King World Productions following the latter company's acquisition by CBS in 2000. In addition to its main studios, the station also operates a secondary studio and news bureau on Riverside Avenue in Fort Collins. [ citation needed ] Among them, the four stations' nighttime signals blanketed almost all of the eastern half of North America. It also had to deal with three longer-established NBC affiliates, on VHF channels from nearby cities, that were also available over-the-air in large parts of the Charlotte market. [25] Westinghouse's first station purchase was with WPTZ (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia, in 1953. The company also purchased cable TV system operator TelePrompTer in 1981, which it renamed Group W Cable the following year. Westinghouse Broadcasting. KFWB would adopt the format on March 11, 1968. WPXI, virtual channel 11, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. This mark is dead with a status of Cancelled - Section 8. In the 1970s, Westinghouse Radio also developed a prodigious reputation for its innovation in analytical techniques and tools for radio sales and buying. This was no simple look-up table; it introduced innovative measures such as "reach index" and "gross cume" to operationalize its core models. When Westinghouse regained control of the Philadelphia stations on June 19, 1965, it restored the KYW calls to the radio station and renamed the television station KYW-TV. Notes . Transmitting with a power of 100 watts on a wavelength of 360 meters, KDKA began scheduled programming with the Harding-Cox Presidential election returns on November 2, 1920. WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. KYW serves as the flagship station of Entercom. [4] The oldest surviving licensed commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA was an outgrowth of experimental station 8XK, a 75-watt station that was located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, and founded in 1916 by Westinghouse assistant chief engineer Frank Conrad. In 1934, KYW was moved from Chicago to Philadelphia following a Federal Communications Commission-dictated frequency realignment. As one of the major broadcasting group owners of commercial radio and television stations (as Group W) since 1920, Westinghouse sought to transition from a station operator into a major media company with its purchase of CBS. The terms were as follows: A short time later, Westinghouse announced it was buying CBS outright, a transaction which closed in late 1995. Of the early Westinghouse FMs, only the original KDKA-FM (now WLTJ) and the second WBZ-FM facility (now WMJX) proved to be worth keeping, and Westinghouse sold those outlets in the early 1980s. The entire wiki with photo and video galleries for each article. Formerly owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting and CBS Radio, the station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. A decade later, the FCC forbade common ownership of two or more clear channel stations with overlapping nighttime coverage, though the commission allowed Westinghouse to keep WBZ, KYW, KDKA, and WOWO together under a grandfather clause. Add new page. [32] Turner used the proceeds from the sale of the Charlotte station to help him launch CNN. Unwilling to risk losing two of its strongest and longest-standing affiliates, ABC and Scripps agreed to a 10-year affiliation contract with WEWS, WXYZ and three other stations. [46] [47]. [49] ABC was initially skeptical of including WMAR in the deal; WJZ-TV had been one of ABC's strongest affiliates, and had been the dominant station in Baltimore for a quarter-century. With little remaining of the company other than its broadcasting division, Westinghouse renamed itself CBS Corporation in 1997. [48]. ", "Group W white knight to RKO's KHJ-TV for $313 million. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. KPIX-TV, virtual channel 5, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. [8] WBZA in Boston, a station which shared WBZ's frequency and simulcasted WBZ's programming, signed on in November 1924. Westinghouse Broadcasting was formed in the 1920s as Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. The Westinghouse-CBS merger resulted in several longtime rivals on the radio dials of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia becoming sister stations. [44]. Popular pages. Despite the assignments which resulted from NARBA, WBZA became a 1,000-watt daytime-only operation as it continued to share a frequency with WBZ. Westinghouse Broadcasting. Under Group W, WPCQ had a marginal signal, a minimal local news presence and a program schedule more typical of an independent station, with a large number of cartoons and second-hand syndicated programming. (KPIX however at the time aired CBS prime time programming an hour earlier than normal, a practice that continued until 1998. Over the next quarter-century, Westinghouse would purchase several other radio stations, including KFBK in Sacramento, California; WNEW-FM in New York, KTWV in Los Angeles, and WMMR in Philadelphia. Throughout the decade, diversification engendered considerable growth; sales went from $43 million in 1914 to $216 million in 1929. Westinghouse expanded into the elevator business, establishing the Westinghouse Elevator Company in 1928. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS. Popular pages. Both stations were owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, who used this leverage to strike a similar multi-station affiliation deal of its own with ABC. Westinghouse's cable television network properties—consisting then of The Nashville Network (now the general-interest Paramount Network) and Country Music Television, which CBS/Westinghouse purchased from Gaylord Entertainment in 1996, and equity stakes in regional sports networks Midwest Sports Channel (now split into Fox Sports North, serving Minnesota and the Dakotas, and Fox Sports Wisconsin, both of which CBS purchased in conjunction with its 1992 acquisition of Midwest Television and its two stations, WCCO-TV in Minneapolis/St. In June 1955, Westinghouse announced that it would sell its Philadelphia stations, KYW radio and WPTZ, to NBC. For example, PBS (US), CBC (Canada), BBC (UK), ABC (Australia), KBS and GMA Network (Philippines) are TV networks that provide programming for local terrestrial television station affiliates to air using signals that can be picked up by the home television sets of local viewers. Westinghouse entered television on June 9, 1948 with the sign-on of WBZ-TV in Boston; it is the only television station to have been built by the company. The two stations share studios on Northwest 18th Terrace in Doral, near the Miami International Airport; WFOR-TV's transmitter is located in Andover, Florida. [21] WOWO was sold to other interests in 1982[22] and WIND was spun off in 1985,[23] two years before Group W bought WMAQ from NBC after that network announced it was closing its radio division.[24]. Many of these programs were also sold internationally (under the name of Westinghouse Broadcasting International). 526 Pages. Classic editor History Talk (0) Westinghouse Broadcasting — a defunct broadcasting company of the United States. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. In December 31, 2005, Viacom was split into two companies, one focused on cable networks and one focused on broadcasting. Category:Westinghouse Broadcasting | Project Longhorn - The 100% Alternate Reality Encyclopedic Wiki | Fandom On April 19, 1965, WINS dropped music and instituted a 24-hour, all-news format. [3] The font is also used in the video game Damnation. These libraries are now controlled by CBS Television Distribution. Some of their best-known programs were syndicated and seen in primetime and early/late fringe through its syndication division, Group W Productions, which was originally known as WBC Productions until 1968. Add new page. Register Start a Wiki. [34] [35] During that period, Group W was known in full as Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc. The network's headquarters are located at the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Angeles. KYW-TV (in both Cleveland and Philadelphia), WBZ-TV, and WPCQ-TV were NBC affiliates, KPIX and KDKA-TV were aligned with CBS, and WJZ-TV was an ABC station. Filmation Associates was a company that produced animation and live-action programming for television. For other related logos and images, see Westinghouse Broadcasting International/Other: 1989–1997. In an effort to focus on broadcasting, the company purchased CBS Inc., a major television network, in 1995.The following year Westinghouse purchased Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, thereby merging the nation’s two largest radio broadcasters. ", "Westinghouse buys WPTZ (TV) for record $8.5 million. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Bicks, Richard A. Solomon and Bernard M. Hollander, for appellee the United States. Games Movies TV Video. Most visited articles. Along with the NBC Blue Network it was one of the first two nationwide networks established in the United States. WBZ/WBZA, KDKA, and KYW became affiliates of NBC's Red Network while WOWO, which had a secondary affiliation with the Blue Network, fell back on its primary relationship with CBS. Westinghouse Electric was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1886. From that point forward, however, Westinghouse proceeded to transform itself from its legendary role as a diversified conglomerate with a strong industrial heritage into a media giant. Power Generation:The company … [14] Having reached the FCC's then-limit of seven AM stations, Westinghouse sold KEX to actor and singer Gene Autry, [15] and later decided to shut down WBZA and return its license to the FCC. Wikis. In general this is a remix of chess, checkers and corners. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company. Westinghouse found no success in the Charlotte market, as WPCQ remained an also-ran during its Group W years. The company also purchased cable TV system operator TelePrompTer in 1981, which it renamed Group W Cable the following year. Recent Changes Browse by Category Browse by Topic More... Browse by Country; … Register Start a Wiki. Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search Sign In Don't have an account? [18] KYW went all-news six months later on September 12, three months after Westinghouse regained control of the station [19] (see The 1956 Trade with NBC, below). 1992–1997 FANDOM. Westinghouse Electric was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1886. [36] The deal was approved in January 1956; [37] one month later Westinghouse moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland and NBC renamed the Philadelphia stations WRCV (AM) and WRCV-TV. On cable, the station is carried on Comcast Xfinity channel 6, and Verizon FiOS channel 2. Westinghouse Broadcasting estis formita en la 1920-aj jaroj kiel Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. (Okcidentenŝipaddomaj Radiostacioj, Inc.) kiun Ĝi estis renomita Westinghouse Broadcasting Company en 1954, kaj adoptis la grupon W kromnomon la 20-an de majo 1963. [40] During this ordeal NBC attempted to circumvent the investigation by trading the Philadelphia stations in return for RKO General's radio and television properties in Boston, [41] [42] which would have resulted in WBZ-TV losing its NBC affiliation to rival station WNAC-TV; the proposed NBC-RKO station swap never materialized. All Logos Wiki. In the days before desktop computers, these "slide rules" were state-of-the-art in audience planning research. Games Movies TV Video. Westinghouse and CBS formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of KYW-TV, KCNC, KUTV and WFOR, with Westinghouse as majority owner. Following the completion of the CBS takeover, the former Westinghouse Broadcasting operations took on the CBS name and identity, though the Group W name survived until the end of the 1990s as a holding company within the merged entity's structure. ", "Westinghouse buys WPTZ (TV) for record $8.5 million. It initially featured programming catering towards the culture of the Southern United States, including country music, variety shows, outdoors programming, and motor racing coverage (such as NASCAR). Well aware that there were few viable choices for replacement affiliates in Detroit or Cleveland, ABC gave in. Nightfeed was registered on Tuesday, November 15, 1983 and is currently owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc. under the registration number 1257899 . List of former television and radio stations and subsidiaries of Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting. Unwilling to risk losing two of its strongest and longest-standing affiliates, ABC and Scripps agreed to a 10-year affiliation contract with WEWS, WXYZ and three other stations. KYW is a subscriber in good standing to the Television Code, and is privileged to display the Seal of Good Practice. It broadcasts an all-news radio format and, due to its simulcast on WPHI-FM, is branded as "KYW Newsradio 103.9 FM." [38] Both companies also transferred much of their respective management and some on-air personnel to their new cities. FANDOM. Westinghouse would increase KEX's power to 50,000 watts in 1948.[12]. ", "Westinghouse pays record to buy DuMont's WDTV (TV). All of Group W's stations were located within the top 40 television markets. Its transmitter is located on Television Hill in the Fineview section of the city, on the site of the station's original studio location. The terms were as follows: A short time later, Westinghouse announced it was buying CBS outright, a transaction which closed in late 1995. [30] [31] Westinghouse's only other outright television station purchase was in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it purchased WRET-TV from Ted Turner in early 1980, and changed its call letters to WPCQ-TV. In August 1964, after a nearly eight-year-long investigation, the FCC ordered a reversal of the swap. KDKA-TV and WJZ-TV dominated their markets, while WBZ-TV and KPIX were solid runners-up. Specifically, it was determined that NBC threatened to drop its programming from both WPTZ and Boston's WBZ-TV; to withhold a primary affiliation from newly acquired KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh (that station would sign with CBS as a primary affiliate); and to withhold or pull an NBC affiliation from any other major-market station Westinghouse would purchase in the future. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with CW East Coast flagship WPSG. Westinghouse also moved into radio broadcasting by establishing Pittsburgh's KDKA, the first commercial radio station, and Boston's WBZ in 1921. Wikis. [10] Products and sponsorships. [12]. KDKA-TV and WJZ-TV dominated their markets, while WBZ-TV and KPIX were solid runners-up. CBS had previously announced in 2016 that it had been looking to leave the radio business. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFS-TV. 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