In August 1964, after a nearly eight-year-long investigation, the FCC ordered a reversal of the swap. [3] The font is also used in the video game Damnation. Logopedia is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Later in the 1940s, Westinghouse moved on to develop FM and television stations as the FCC began to issue permits for those services. The deal resulted in a three-way transaction between Group W, CBS, and NBC, which unfolded between the summer of 1994 and the summer of 1995. Television production/distribution: Amphibia Wiki. ", "Six stations being sold for nearly $15 million. With a few exceptions, the current CBS Corporation holds the same television properties that the old CBS Corporation held prior to the Viacom merger, including the new Westinghouse. Background: Group W was a company of Westinghouse Broadcasting, a division of Westinghouse Electric Company. [10]. In 1997, Westinghouse Broadcasting was absorbed into CBS Inc., which they merged with in 1995. To install click the Add extension button. Games Movies TV Video. 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. [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. These libraries are now controlled by CBS Television Distribution. At the time, the FCC normally did not allow common ownership of stations with overlapping signals, and would not even consider granting a waiver for a city-grade overlap; the FCC began to allow common ownership of stations with overlapping signals without a waiver in 2000. Westinghouse later introduced an even more comprehensive tool, stylized as the "Numa Radio Planner". 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. [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. The other stations discontinued using the typeface early in the 21st century. There are no threads for this page. The two stations share studios on Soldiers Field Road in the Allston–Brighton section of Boston; WBZ-TV's transmitter is located on Cedar Street in Needham, Massachusetts, on a tower site that was formerly owned by CBS and is now owned by American Tower Corporation. 4Co-owned with Gaumont. The only exceptions were KYW-TV and WPCQ. [7]. The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. 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. WKYC, virtual channel 3, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Group W corporate typeface has been digitized and released freely by John Sizemore;[2] Ray Larabie's freeware font "Anklepants" borrows heavily from the typeface and is occasionally used as a substitute. Westinghouse and CBS formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of KYW-TV, KCNC, KUTV and WFOR, with Westinghouse as majority owner. However, the protracted legal issues that had dogged RKO General for years delayed the transfer of KHJ to Westinghouse, and they ultimately withdrew their offer. Within a year-long span during 1994-95, a series of surprising events occurred which not only changed the look of the television industry but also ended Westinghouse's uniqueness among television station operators. 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. Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! [1] [2] Similarly styled typefaces had been used on some non-Group W stations as well and several former Group W stations still use it today. The TelePrompTer acquisition also brought animation producer Filmation into the Group W fold. ), On January 2, 1995, WJZ-TV and WBZ-TV switched from ABC and NBC, respectively, to CBS, while. WPCQ was also a UHF network affiliate competing against two long-established network stations on VHF. Westinghouse Broadcasting was formed in the 1920s as Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. Start TV affiliate: WBXI-CA, US domestic channels ", "WDTV (TV) Pittsburgh changes call to KDKA-TV. The Group W moniker that was used for the latter part of Westinghouse Broadcasting's existence. It is one of the oldest radio stations in America, having spent time in Chicago and Cleveland. 1992–1997. Paul and WFRV-TV in Green Bay) and Home Team Sports (now NBC Sports Washington) in the Baltimore–Washington area—were consequently reorganized as CBS Cable (a name used prior by CBS Inc. for an arts-oriented basic cable channel it operated from October 1981 to December 1982). It broadcasts an all-news radio format and is branded as "KYW Newsradio 1060". Westinghouse Broadcasting was formed in the 1920s as Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. The Westinghouse group survived the government-dictated split of NBC's radio division in 1943. The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement of 1941 saw all of Westinghouse's original stations move to their current frequencies. Most of them were among their networks' strongest performers. UK & Ireland (HD, +1)3 (Nicktoons | Nick Jr. (HD, +1) | Nick Jr. Too) [1][2] Similarly styled typefaces had been used on some non-Group W stations as well and several former Group W stations still use it today. 5Managed by CBS Interactive. This version of Internet Explorer is no longer supported. | NGA | Ten SD2 | One SD | Ten Guide | 10 Daily | Club MTV | MTV OMG | MTV Rocks | MTV Music | VH1. [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]. ✪ On the Air: The Story of Radio Broadcasting 1944 Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. ✪ Prewar 1939 TV, General Electric Television, ✪ Radio at War 1944 RCA Radio Corporation of America, ✪ 1959 TV Set: Hillsborough with New Hideaway Styling 1959 RCA Television Console, ✪ Radio and Television 1940 Vocational Guidance Films, Westinghouse Broadcasting International logo. Well aware that there were few viable choices for replacement affiliates in Detroit or Cleveland, ABC gave in. (30%) | Viacom182 | Porta dos Fundos (51%) | Bellator MMA | Viacom Velocity | Viacom Vantage | South Park Digital Studios | Paramount Digital Entertainment | Nickelodeon Games | CBS Studio Center | CBS Broadcast Center | CBS Sporting Club | Nick Records | Comedy Central Records | VidCon | Ananey Communications | Viacom Digital Studios | ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group | ViacomCBS Veterans Network | ViacomCBS EyeQ, Defunct/Dissolved [50] Under the terms of the deal, all five Group W stations would carry the entire CBS schedule with no pre-emptions except for local news emergencies (as noted above, prior to this, Group W stations were known for pre-empting selected programming of their affiliated networks with Group W-mandated content). One of these additional stations was Baltimore's then-NBC affiliate, WMAR-TV, which would displace that city's longtime ABC affiliate, Group W-owned WJZ-TV. Now owned by Fox Networks Group. The company also purchased cable TV system operator TelePrompTer in 1981, which it renamed Group W Cable the following year. Many of these programs were also sold internationally (under the name of Westinghouse Broadcasting International). Westinghouse was also allowed to keep the cash compensation from the original deal. BET (HD) | BET Gospel | BET Hip-Hop | BET Her | BET Jams | BET Soul | Showtime (HD) | Showtime 2 | SHO×BET | Showtime Extreme | Showtime Family Zone | Showtime Next | Showcase | Showtime Women | The Movie Channel (HD) | The Movie Channel Xtra | Flix, Entertainment & Youth Group: Benelux (MTV Brand New | MTV Music 24) | Africa | Brazil | Europe | France (MTV Base | MTV Idol | MTV Pulse) | Germany | Indonesia | Italy (MTV Music) | Japan | Latin America | Middle East (MTV India) | Russia | Poland (MTV Music 24) | Portugal | South Korea (SBS MTV)8 | Southeast Asia | Spain, Nickelodeon: Westinghouse initially owned a 20 percent stake in NBC, and as a result, all of Westinghouse's stations became affiliates of NBC's Blue Network when it was launched on January 1, 1927. Over the next year, it sold off almost all of its nonbroadcast properties. Viacom, however, changed its name to CBS Corporation in 2006 and spun off most of its cable and movie interests as a new Viacom. 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. CBS had previously announced in 2016 that it had been looking to leave the radio business. It was renamed Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1954, and adopted the Group W moniker on May 20, 1963. [5], Westinghouse launched three more radio stations between 1920 and 1921: WJZ, [6] originally licensed to Newark, New Jersey; WBZ, first located in Springfield, Massachusetts; [7] and KYW, originally based in Chicago. 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. The TelePrompTer acquisition also brought animation producer Filmation into the Group W fold. Australia: 10 Play | 10 All Access5 | 10 Speaks | 10 Travlr, Other assets: Moving back to AM radio, Westinghouse returned to Chicago with its 1956 purchase of WIND. In most areas, Evening/PM Magazine was broadcast from the late 1970s into the late 1980s. The two stations share studios on Hamilton Street north of Center City; KYW-TV's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. Westinghouse built FM sister stations for WBZ/WBZA, KDKA, KYW, KEX, and WOWO, all of which were on the air by the end of the decade. [43] NBC appealed the ruling, extending the ordeal by another year, but to no avail. [8] WBZA in Boston, a station which shared WBZ's frequency and simulcasted WBZ's programming, signed on in November 1924.[7]. KYW-TV had been one of Westinghouse's (and NBC's) crown jewels for many years, but faltered in the late 1970s and eventually became NBC's weakest major-market affiliate by the mid-1980s. In the 1970s, Westinghouse Radio also developed a prodigious reputation for its innovation in analytical techniques and tools for radio sales and buying. [50] Under the terms of the deal, all five Group W stations would carry the entire CBS schedule with no pre-emptions except for local news emergencies (as noted above, prior to this, Group W stations were known for pre-empting selected programming of their affiliated networks with Group W-mandated content).