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The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company entered broadcasting with the November 2, 1920, sign-on of KDKA radio in Pittsburgh. [5] 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 ...
The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.
Pages in category "Westinghouse Broadcasting" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. ... Satellite News Channel; She-Ra: Princess of Power;
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation's purchase of CBS in 1995 then merged the network's owned-and-operated stations with those of Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W). With the subsequent 2000 merger with Viacom , the CBS-owned stations were combined with Viacom's Paramount Stations Group to form the Viacom Television Stations Group .
On December 31, 2005, American mass media company Viacom split into two companies: the second CBS Corporation, its successor (the first being a short lived rename of Westinghouse Electric) which held the namesake flagship channel CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports, Showtime Networks, UPN (merged with The WB to form the CW, co-owned by Time Warner), Smithsonian Channel, Channel 10, PopTV, Simon and ...
Westinghouse, which produced the first radio broadcast on November 2, 1920, with KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [11] would later change its name to the original CBS Corporation, [12] and reorganize all of its radio properties (including its own Group W stations), as well as its outdoor advertising business, under the Infinity Broadcasting ...
Donald H. McGannon (September 9, 1920 – 1984) was a broadcasting industry executive during the formative years of the television industry in the United States.As chairman of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, McGannon was a devoted advocate of broadcasting's potential for good and worked to improve the standards of radio and television broadcasting.
WOWO (1190 AM) – branded News/Talk WOWO 92.3 FM 1190 AM – is a commercial talk radio station licensed to Fort Wayne, ... Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting. ...