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Closing of WBZA (Was Re: 1939...) The 1972 Broadcasting yearbook shows an acquisition date by Westinghouse of KFWB of 1966. WOWO (acquired by Westinghouse in 1936) still was owned by Westinghouse in 1976, according to the Broadcasting Yearbook. My 1972 Broadcasting Yearbook shows KEX acquired by Golden West Broadcasters in 1962. lists.bostonradio.org /bri/v02/msg04831.html

USA Digital Radio and Lucent Technologies announce joint development agreement for digital audio broadcasting USA Digital Radio (USADR), founded in 1990, is a partnership of Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Gannett Co., Inc. Westinghouse Wireless Solutions is spearheading the technical development of USADR's design of AM and FM digital audio broadcasting systems. The joint development agreement between the companies involves patented digital audio compression and broadcast technologies from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, and digital audio broadcasting technology and considerable broadcasting expertise from USADR, a partnership of Westinghouse Electric Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary CBS Inc., and Gannett Co, Inc. In-Band, On-Channel Digital Audio Broadcast (IBOC DAB) is designed as a digital enhancement to current analog radio broadcasting. www.lucent.com /press/0597/970512.nsa.html   (925 words)

United States Early Radio History Broadcasting Becomes Widespread (1922-1923) - Led by Westinghouse's 1920 and 1921 establishment of four well-financed stations -- located in or near Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago and New York City -- there was a growing sense of excitement as broadcasting activities became more organized. General Electric, Westinghouse and RCA responded by forming their own radio network, however, unable to match AT&T's progress, in 1926 they bought out AT&T's network operations, which were reorganized to form the National Broadcasting Company. Radio at Sea (1891-1916) - The first major use of radio was for navigation, where it greatly reduced the isolation of ships, saving thousands of lives, even though for the first couple of decades radio was generally limited to Morse Code transmissions. earlyradiohistory.us   (1654 words)

United States Early Radio History Broadcasting Becomes Widespread (1922-1923) - Led by Westinghouse's 1920 and 1921 establishment of four well-financed stations -- located in or near Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago and New York City -- there was a growing sense of excitement as broadcasting activities became more organized. General Electric, Westinghouse and RCA responded by forming their own radio network, however, unable to match AT&T's progress, in 1926 they bought out AT&T's network operations, which were reorganized to form the National Broadcasting Company. Broadcasting After World War One (1918-1921) - Although still unfocused, scattered broadcasting activities, taking advantage of the improvements in vacuum-tube equipment, expanded when the radio industry returned to civilian control. earlyradiohistory.us   (1641 words)

United States Early Radio History Broadcasting Becomes Widespread (1922-1923) - Led by Westinghouse's 1920 and 1921 establishment of four well-financed stations -- located in or near Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago and New York City -- there was a growing sense of excitement as broadcasting activities became more organized. General Electric, Westinghouse and RCA responded by forming their own radio network, however, unable to match AT&T's progress, in 1926 they bought out AT&T's network operations, which were reorganized to form the National Broadcasting Company. During the "broadcasting boom" of 1922, most programming was commercial-free, and entertainers, caught up in the excitement of this revolutionary new invention, performed for free. earlyradiohistory.us   (1689 words)

United States Early Radio History Broadcasting Becomes Widespread (1922-1923) - Led by Westinghouse's 1920 and 1921 establishment of four well-financed stations -- located in or near Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago and New York City -- there was a growing sense of excitement as broadcasting activities became more organized. General Electric, Westinghouse and RCA responded by forming their own radio network, however, unable to match AT&T's progress, in 1926 they bought out AT&T's network operations, which were reorganized to form the National Broadcasting Company. During the "broadcasting boom" of 1922, most programming was commercial-free, and entertainers, caught up in the excitement of this revolutionary new invention, performed for free. earlyradiohistory.us   (1689 words)

Radio Corporation of America In 1926, RCA formed a new company, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), to oversee operation of radio stations owned by RCA, General Electric, Westinghouse and AT and T. In the early 1930's, the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the company. Furthermore, the Commission asserted that commercialization of broadcasting would not be permitted until there was industry consensus and agreement on one common system. In a 1932 consent decree, the organization's operations were separated and GE, AT and T, and Westinghouse were forced to sell their interests in the company. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/radiocorpora/radiocorpora.htm   (1018 words)

IEEE History Center-Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA, 1920 Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. Although it was this election night broadcast which first riveted national attention to KDKA, the station finds its antecedent several years earlier in 1916 as amateur experimental station 8XK, licensed to Westinghouse engineer Dr. Frank Conrad. While most of the nation's amateurs were forced to cease operations for the duration of World War I, Westinghouse was issued special licenses 2WM and 2WE and continued experimental radiotelephone work for the military throughout the War. www.ieee.org /organizations/history_center/milestones_photos/kdka.html   (650 words)

WESTINGHOUSE/CBS FIRST SILICON CARBIDE HDTV BROADCAST This historic broadcast is the culmination of a project begun in 1992 and enhanced by the marriage of Westinghouse, a pioneer in broadcast technology and CBS, the largest television and radio broadcaster in the United States. A pioneer in the broadcasting field, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, through the acquisition of CBS last year, became the nation's largest broadcaster, with 15 television stations and 39 radio stations covering about 35 percent of the United States. The Solid-State Silicon Carbide Transmitters, developed by Westinghouse for advanced television transmission, and designed specifically for UHF television broadcast, are cost effectve, compact, more reliable and safer and easier to main than transmitters using tube-based technology. www.transmitter.com /pr/wes0496.html   (617 words)

British Broadcasting Company The British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., was formed using a blueprint that the US Navy and the General Electric Company had attempted to institute in the USA. British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. was a British commercial company formed on October 18, 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Beginning in 1920 a number of licenses were issued to British and American subsidiary companies in Britain for the purpose of conducting experimental transmissions under terms of a license issued by the General Post Office in accordance with the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1904. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/British_Broadcasting_Company   (617 words)

Storer, Wometco, Gillett & New World: overview The history of Storer, Wometco and Gillett reflects the trajectory of US broadcasting conglomerates (eg the fate of NBC-RCA, CBS, Westinghouse and Cooke) and the vicissitudes of groups whose expansion was based on large-scale borrowing from banks or on junk bonds. Storer was founded in Ohio during 1927 as Storer Broadcasting, Inc. It leveraged success in non-metropolitan radio broadcasting to build a chain of television stations, beginning with three of the licenses (WJBK, WAGA and WSPD) granted by the FCC before its 1948 'freeze' in 1948. Wometco's broadcast and cable operations were offloaded by KKR; bottling and other operations went to different buyers, with the name and some entertainment assets subsequently being sold to Wometco management. www.ketupa.net /storer.htm   (1298 words)

Competitive Impact Statement : U.S. v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Infinity Broadcasting Corporation The prayer for relief seeks: (a) adjudication that Westinghouse's proposed acquisition of Infinity would violate Section 7 of the Clayton Act; (b) preliminary and permanent injunctive relief preventing the consummation of the proposed acquisition; (c) an award to the United States of the costs of this action; and (d) such other relief as is proper. Because the direct competition between the Westinghouse and the Infinity stations would be eliminated by the proposed merger, and because advertisers seeking to reach male listeners between the ages of 18 and 54 would have inferior alternatives to the merged entity, the acquisition would give Westinghouse the ability to raise prices and reduce quality. Today, several Westinghouse and Infinity stations compete head-to-head to reach the same audiences and, for many local and national advertisers buying time in Philadelphia and Boston, they are close substitutes for each other based on their specific audience characteristics. www.usdoj.gov /atr/cases/f1000/1045.htm   (3721 words)

British company BNFL made your fan in china Westinghouse sells defense electronics business, buys Infinity Broadcasting. Westinghouse Columbia Site produces its 50,000th nuclear fuel assembly for use in commercial nuclear power reactors. Westinghouse plans to sell electrical supply, distribution and control, office furniture, and land development businesses. www.bobvila.com /wwwboard/messages/214447.html   (3721 words)

Media Monopoly: Long History,Short Memories ABC can trace its origins back to 1919, when RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, was created by a consortium of General Electric, Westinghouse, ATandT and United Fruit. RCA and its allies controlled the patents for radio, and had a virtual monopoly until the alliance was declared to violate antitrust laws in 1932. But a very different Justice Department existed in 1985, when ABC was bought for $3.5 billion by Capital Cities, a media company with a somewhat mysterious past--then-CIA Director William Casey was one of its founding investors. www.fair.org /extra/9511/monop.html   (3721 words)

American Broadcasting Company Essay @ CompleteIdiots.com (Complete Idiots) The network today, in fact, is the last of the Big Three broadcasting networks to use the full name based upon this initialism (after the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1974, and the National Broadcasting Company in 2004). After years of study the FCC in 1940 issued a "Report on Chain Broadcasting." Finding that two corporate owners (and the co-operatively owned Mutual Broadcasting System) dominated American broadcasting, this report proposed "divorcement," requiring the sale by RCA of one of its chains. With WEAF came a loosely-organized system feeding programming to other stations in the northeastern U.S. RCA also took control of a second such group, fed by Westinghouse's Newark station WJZ (now WABC (AM), New York.) These were the foundations of RCA's two distinct programming services, the NBC "Red" and NBC "Blue" networks. completeidiots.com /encyclopedia/American_Broadcasting_Company   (2870 words)

CBS CBS was one of the three commercial television network s that dominated broadcasting in the United States before the rise of cable television. What became CBS was founded as The "Columbia Broadcasting System" in 1927 as a joint venture by Columbia Records and New York City talent agent Arthur Judson. It continued its expansion in 1997 with the $4.9-billion purchase of Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, one of the largest owners of radio stations in the United States. www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/CBS.html   (2870 words)

Westinghouse Electric Corporation --  Encyclopædia Britannica The company was incorporated in 1927 as United Independent Broadcasters, Inc. Its name was changed a year later to Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and in 1974 it adopted the name CBS Inc. In 1995 CBS Inc. was bought by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which... It was founded as the Westinghouse Electric Company in 1886 by George Westinghouse (1846–1914), the inventor of the air brake and other devices, to construct and market alternating-current electrical systems. As an employee of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation he devised the television transmission tube in 1923 and the receiver in 1924. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9076678?tocId=9076678   (742 words)

Competitive Impact Statement : U.S. v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Infinity Broadcasting Corporation Westinghouse is a Pennsylvania corporation headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The prayer for relief seeks: (a) adjudication that Westinghouse's proposed acquisition of Infinity would violate Section 7 of the Clayton Act; (b) preliminary and permanent injunctive relief preventing the consummation of the proposed acquisition; (c) an award to the United States of the costs of this action; and (d) such other relief as is proper. Westinghouse presently controls approximately 28 percent of all radio advertising revenues in Philadelphia and approximately 15 percent of all radio advertising revenues in Boston. www.usdoj.gov /atr/cases/f1000/1045.htm   (3721 words)

The History of KFRC Radio In 1929, the nation's second network, the Columbia Broadcasting System, still had no affiliates west of the Rockies, and this was making it difficult for the network to compete with its larger rival, NBC. Subsequent mergers between Infinity and Westinghouse/CBS (December 1996) and Viacom International (May 2000) brought the station under new corporate ownership in the years that followed. On an evening broadcast heard November 15, 1926, officials of the City of Paris formally turned over the station to Don Lee, and the audience was told of his plans for a great station to broadcast from new and elaborate studios he planned to build in the Cadillac building. www.bayarearadio.org /schneider/kfrc1.shtml   (5970 words)

TV lawyers Westinghouse-owned KDKA inaugurates commercial broadcasting and the first newscast by transmitting the results of the Harding—Cox presidential election from the roof of its Pittsburgh factory. Turner Broadcasting's WTCG becomes cable television's first Superstation as it is beamed via satellite to cable homes across the country. The Army-McCarthy congressional hearings are broadcast live and repeated at night, bringing the country face to face with zealot Joe McCarthy's zeal as he tracks down the Commies. tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/tv/tvhistory.html   (7752 words)

Sony Corporation --  Encyclopædia Britannica The company was incorporated in 1927 as United Independent Broadcasters, Inc. Its name was changed a year later to Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and in 1974 it adopted the name CBS Inc. In 1995 CBS Inc. was bought by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which... major American broadcasting company and operator of the CBS national radio and television networks. Japanese businessman Akio Morita was best known as the cofounder, chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976 through 1994) of Sony Corporation, the world-renowned manufacturer of consumer electronics products. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9068717&ref=news1204   (7752 words)

Competitive Impact Statement : U.S. v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Infinity Broadcasting Corporation The prayer for relief seeks: (a) adjudication that Westinghouse's proposed acquisition of Infinity would violate Section 7 of the Clayton Act; (b) preliminary and permanent injunctive relief preventing the consummation of the proposed acquisition; (c) an award to the United States of the costs of this action; and (d) such other relief as is proper. Because the direct competition between the Westinghouse and the Infinity stations would be eliminated by the proposed merger, and because advertisers seeking to reach male listeners between the ages of 18 and 54 would have inferior alternatives to the merged entity, the acquisition would give Westinghouse the ability to raise prices and reduce quality. Shortly before this suit was filed, a proposed settlement was reached that permits Westinghouse to complete its acquisition of Infinity, yet preserves competition in the markets in which the transaction would raise significant competitive concerns. www.usdoj.gov /atr/cases/f1000/1045.htm   (7752 words)

NBC.com > Corporate Info An industry pioneer for more than 75 years, the National Broadcasting Company was founded in 1926 by General Electric, RCA, and Westinghouse. In April 2002, NBC purchased Telemundo, the second-largest U.S. Spanish-language television network, and in December 2002, the company added the Bravo cable network to its portfolio. In addition to the NBC Television Network and the NBC Television Stations Division, the company owns CNBC, which is the global leader in business news, reaching 175 million homes worldwide. www.nbc.com /nbc/header/Corporate_Info.shtml   (7752 words)

National Broadcasting Company NBC, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (Compañía de Emisión Nacional), emite cadenas de radio y televisión, produce programas de televisión, opera emisoras de radiodifusión en los Estados Unidos, posee varias cadenas de televisión por cable/satélite e inversiones en activades multimedia, internet y televisión por cable. La NBC operaba las estaciones de radio de la RCA, General Electric Company (GE), Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company y American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). 20000724/XMSATLOGO) XM will begin broadcasting NHL games with the launch of... enciclopedia.cc /National_Broadcasting_Company   (7752 words)

Columbia Broadcasting System Soon merged with the Columbia Phonograph Company, the network went on the air on 18 September 1927 as the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting Company. The network CBS, traditionally referred to as the "Tiffany network" among major television broadcasting systems, has in recent years come more and more to resemble Wal-Mart. In November 1995 CBS was sold to the Westinghouse Corporation for $5.4 billion, effectively bringing to a close CBS's history as an independent company. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/columbiabroa/columbiabroa.htm   (7752 words)

Press Release Archives #008-97 Welcomes Newly Formed CBS Corporation Westinghouse is the nation's largest television and radio station operator after buying CBS Inc. in 1995 and Infinity Broadcasting Corp. this past year. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Westinghouse Electric Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Jordan, today announced that the corporation's newly-formed media company will be named the CBS Corporation and will be headquartered in New York City. Westinghouse Electric Company, which includes all of the company's industrial businesses, will remain headquartered in Pittsburgh. www.nyc.gov /html/om/html/97/sp008-97.html   (1176 words)

WESTINGHOUSE/CBS FIRST SILICON CARBIDE HDTV BROADCAST This historic broadcast is the culmination of a project begun in 1992 and enhanced by the marriage of Westinghouse, a pioneer in broadcast technology and CBS, the largest television and radio broadcaster in the United States. A pioneer in the broadcasting field, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, through the acquisition of CBS last year, became the nation's largest broadcaster, with 15 television stations and 39 radio stations covering about 35 percent of the United States. "This is an important step for Westinghouse and indeed, for the broadcast industry. www.transmitter.com /pr/wes0496.html   (617 words)

CBS Corp. (was Westinghouse Electric) At the end of 1997, Westinghouse was in the final stages of a major restructuring of the corporation involving the separation of its media business from its industrial business. The new Westinghouse Electric Corporation will be a primary supplier of fossil and nuclear power generating equipment and services to the world utility markets. The new CBS Corporation will be the country's largest pure-play broadcasting company. www.advisorinsight.com /pub/indexes/500_mi/CBS_mi.htm   (430 words)

Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Securities Class Action Securities Litigation Entwistle & Cappucci LLP Legal Firm - Attorneys at Law - Legal Representation Industry: Broadcasting& Cable TV Westinghouse Electric Corporation Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Securities Class Action Securities Litigation Entwistle and Cappucci LLP Legal Firm - Attorneys at Law - Legal Representation The settlement is subject to the execution of definitive documentation, notice to the class upon whose behalf the action was brought, a fairness hearing, and approval by the Court of the settlement. www.entwistle-law.com /legal_news/securities-cases/1011/WX97   (131 words)

Igartua - On-line resources for historical research - McGill conference, January 1999 The Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress presents "Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904." One has to be aware, however, that these catalogues may not contain works published before library catalogues became machine-readable; for instance, BN-Opale, the on-line catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, only lists books since 1970 and periodicals since 1960. Perhaps the best known of these sites is that of the Louvre museum, which, besides institutional information, offers a short visit through the building's major sections, with representations of some of the major works the museum holds. www.er.uqam.ca /nobel/r12270/textes/mcgill99.html   (131 words)

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