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In 1997, Westinghouse acquired Infinity Broadcasting Corporation and was reorganized as the first CBS Corporation, taking on the name of the broadcasting network. In 1999, CBS Corporation sold all of its nuclear businesses to BNFL and Westinghouse, thus jettisoning its last significant non-media assets.
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, Simon and Schuster, Infinity ...
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (1981–1989) Filmation Associates was an American production company founded by Lou Scheimer , Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott in 1962, [ 3 ] before closing by Group W Productions on February 3, 1989. [ 4 ]
CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation and founded in 1928, with consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s, and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE ...
A syndicated version of The Steve Allen Show, known informally as the Westinghouse Show, ran, through Westinghouse Broadcasting, from June 1962 to October 1964. It was taped at what would later become known as The Steve Allen Playhouse in Hollywood. [11] He competed against new Tonight host Johnny Carson.
Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W), now integrated into CBS Broadcasting, Inc. White-Westinghouse, acquired by Electrolux in 1986; Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996; British Westinghouse, later subsumed into the General Electric Company; Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founding name of WABCO; Westinghouse ...
TelePrompTer merged with H & B American Corporation in 1970, creating the nation's largest cable company at the time. [6] TelePrompTer grew to become the largest cable television provider in the United States by 1973. The company was later sold to Westinghouse, merging the cable operations into Westinghouse Broadcasting.