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73-585: On August 9, 1976, Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting -owned KPIX in San Francisco debuted a locally-produced magazine program called Evening: The MTWTF Show , changing the name to Evening Magazine within a few years. The award-winning series ran for 14 years. It was also the first non-primetime series to be shot entirely on videotape. The series dealt with lifestyles, leisure time, pop culture, famous people, fascinating places, consumer tips and information about modern city living. KPIX's Evening Magazine

146-414: A 24-hour, all-news format. KYW went all-news six months later on September 12, three months after Westinghouse regained control of the station (see The 1956 Trade with NBC , below). KFWB would adopt the format on March 11, 1968. The three stations all prospered with their new formats, usually ranking among the five highest-rated stations in their markets. During the 1970s and 1980s, WIND also tinkered with

219-420: A holding trust as a consequence of CBS's purchase of KCAL-TV; the trust divested the station in 2016), all of the former Group W radio stations were part of CBS Radio until its merger with Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ) on November 17, 2017. While the merged company took Entercom's name, CBS shareholders held controlling interest in the enlarged Entercom. Following the merger, one of the former Group W stations, WBZ,

292-606: A large number of cartoons and second-hand syndicated programming. WPCQ was also a UHF network affiliate competing against two long-established network stations on VHF . 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. Westinghouse was able to escape Charlotte when it sold WPCQ (now WCNC-TV ) to Odyssey Television Partners (later to become Renaissance Broadcasting ) in 1985. The subpar performance of KYW-TV and WPCQ

365-595: A new Viacom . With a few exceptions, the "new" CBS Corporation retained the same television properties that the old CBS Corporation held prior to the Viacom merger, including the new Westinghouse. Theater chain National Amusements , which had held controlling interest in the "old" Viacom since 1986, retained controlling interest in both the "new" CBS and Viacom. Excluding WMAQ (shut down in 2000 to allow all-sports WSCR to move to its old dial position) and KFWB (placed in

438-497: A part-time news format, though it had little success against the dominant all-news station in Chicago, CBS-owned WBBM . In the 1970s, Westinghouse Radio also developed a prodigious reputation for its innovation in analytical techniques and tools for radio sales and buying. Using sophisticated mathematical modeling, the group promoted its "New Math Calculator" which became extremely popular in ad agencies for planning radio campaigns. This

511-535: A result, all of Westinghouse's stations became affiliates of NBC's Blue Network when it was launched on January 1, 1927. Most of the Blue Network's programming originated at WJZ, which in 1923 had its license moved to New York City, and its ownership transferred to RCA. In 1931, Westinghouse switched the call letters of its two Massachusetts stations, with WBZA moving to Springfield and WBZ going to Boston. The two stations had suffered from interference problems, though

584-706: A station which shared WBZ's frequency and simulcasted WBZ's programming, signed on in November 1924. Westinghouse was one of the founding owners of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1919, and in 1926 RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), a group of 24 radio stations that made up the first radio network in the United States. Westinghouse initially owned a 20 percent stake in NBC, and as

657-616: A successor company Gray Television . The media company began in 1945 as Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, Inc., which became Jefferson-Pilot Communications in 1968. The company was a media-centered division of the Jefferson Standard Insurance Company of Greensboro , North Carolina , which later merged with Pilot Life Insurance Company to form Jefferson-Pilot. Jefferson-Pilot owned WBT-AM - FM and WBTV , all of which are based in Charlotte, North Carolina . In 1962,

730-416: A team, the group also pre-records segments to be used throughout the week, including "Inbox," "WeighIn," and "Raves," which make use of viewer comments and off-the-cuff interactions between the hosts. Longtime reporter and host Michael King left the program on December 6, 2019; his replacement, former KIRO-TV news anchor and Take 5 host Angela Poe Russell joined the program on March 2, 2020. Her final show

803-574: A three-way transaction between Group W, CBS, and NBC, which unfolded between the summer of 1994 and the summer of 1995. The terms were as follows: A short time later, Westinghouse announced it was buying CBS outright, a transaction which closed in late 1995. As a condition of the merger, both CBS and Group W were forced to sell off several radio stations due to the FCC's then-current ownership limits. CBS also had to sell WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island (which

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876-662: 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). In 1998, the company created a new licensing subsidiary under the Westinghouse Electric Corporation name. In this sense, the Westinghouse-CBS merger turned out to be a " wag the dog " transaction. After selling off its nuclear assets to BNFL in 1999, CBS Corporation

949-715: The Southeastern Conference , and co-produced Atlantic Coast Conference sporting events with Raycom Sports . It also produced telecasts of pre-season games of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League , and in the 1980s, syndicated coverage of the NASCAR Winston Cup races at Charlotte Motor Speedway . On November 12, 2007, Lincoln Financial Group announced the sale of this division to Raycom Media . The group would later operate under

1022-584: The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is also owned by CBS Media Ventures with DVD rights licensed to Lionsgate Home Entertainment (formerly Family Home Entertainment ). Lincoln Financial Media Lincoln Financial Media was a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation that owned radio stations in the United States . The division was formed in 2006 following the company's acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot's television and radio operations, which were renamed Lincoln Financial Media. The group, at

1095-414: The 2011 season, while Black ended her "Evening" host run in November 2013, when a revolving cast consisting of "Evening" reporters Jim Dever, Saint Bryan, Kim Holcomb, and Michael King took over hosting duties. Although the format continues to evolve, the show's hosts typically present one show each week as a team, then front the other shows for the week as solo hosts, or occasionally in pairs. When hosting as

1168-661: The Boston facility was the more powerful of the two. In 1934, KYW was moved from Chicago to Philadelphia following a Federal Communications Commission -dictated frequency realignment. Westinghouse's next station was its first purchase: WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana , joined the group in August 1936. The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement of 1941 saw all of Westinghouse's original stations move to their current frequencies. With WOWO's power increase to 50,000 watts later that year,

1241-440: The Charlotte rights to the franchise and aired it as PM Magazine from September 1979 until November 1990. In Baltimore , WJZ-TV 's edition of Evening Magazine aired from August 29, 1977 until December 28, 1990. It was hosted initially by Linnea Anderson , Dave Sisson, Tim White , Jeff Pylant, Donna Hamilton and Steve Aveson. Maria Shriver served as a contributor early in her career. Boston 's version of Evening Magazine

1314-513: The FCC began to allow common ownership of stations with overlapping signals without a waiver in 2000. 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. The Westinghouse-CBS merger resulted in several longtime rivals on

1387-562: The Group W fold. However, Westinghouse would leave the cable TV system business in 1986, and would later sell the Filmation library to L'Oréal in 1989. During that period, Group W was known in full as Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc. In June 1955, Westinghouse announced that it would sell its Philadelphia stations, KYW radio and WPTZ, to NBC. In exchange Westinghouse received NBC's Cleveland stations, WTAM radio and WNBK television , along with $ 3 million in compensation. The deal

1460-518: The KYW calls to the radio station and renamed the television station KYW-TV . And in a reversal of nine years prior, both NBC and Westinghouse relocated various personnel between both cities. Throughout its history as an operator of television stations, Westinghouse Broadcasting had relationships with all three major networks . 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

1533-521: The Lincoln Financial Sports division (which was folded into Raycom Sports , then into Gray Television ) for $ 583 million. The acquisition was completed in April 2008. On December 8, 2014, Entercom (rebranded Audacy, Inc. as of March 30, 2021) announced its intent to acquire the remainder of Lincoln Financial Media for $ 110 million and working capital . To comply with ownership limits, Entercom

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1606-539: The New York market when it bought WINS , then a local Top-40 powerhouse, from J. Elroy McCaw . Having reached the FCC's then-limit of seven AM stations, Westinghouse sold KEX to actor and singer Gene Autry , and later decided to shut down WBZA and return its license to the FCC. In 1966, Westinghouse agreed to buy another top-rated music station, KFWB in Los Angeles . On April 19, 1965, WINS dropped music and instituted

1679-635: The UHF band in two major markets, CBS heavily courted ABC affiliates WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WEWS-TV in Cleveland. 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. 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 . One of these additional stations

1752-670: 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 . Westinghouse launched three more radio stations between 1920 and 1921: WJZ , originally licensed to Newark, New Jersey ; WBZ , first located in Springfield, Massachusetts ; and KYW , originally based in Chicago . WBZA in Boston ,

1825-541: The West Coast in 1944 with its purchase of 5,000-watt KEX in Portland, Oregon , a station which also shared a frequency with WOWO. Westinghouse would increase KEX's power to 50,000 watts in 1948. Later in the 1940s, Westinghouse moved on to develop FM and television stations as the FCC began to issue permits for those services. Westinghouse built FM sister stations for WBZ/WBZA, KDKA, KYW, KEX, and WOWO, all of which were on

1898-478: The Westinghouse stations were now also clear-channel stations . 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 . Among them, the four stations' nighttime signals blanketed almost all of the eastern half of North America . Despite

1971-498: The air by the end of the decade. FM radio was, initially, an unsuccessful venture for Westinghouse, and the company would silence most of its FM stations during the 1950s. 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. Moving back to AM radio, Westinghouse returned to Chicago with its 1956 purchase of WIND . In 1962, Westinghouse re-entered

2044-443: The assignments which resulted from NARBA, WBZA became a 1,000-watt daytime-only operation as it continued to share a frequency with WBZ. The Westinghouse group survived the government-dictated split of NBC's radio division in 1943. 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 expanded to

2117-522: The company conceived Jefferson Productions (later Jefferson Pilot Teleproductions, later Jefferson Pilot Sports ), a production arm that produced television programs and commercials, but later chose to produce syndicated sports programming only by the 1980s. It was originally intended to produce promos and local television shows for WBTV but had since grown to produce nationally syndicated talk shows and variety shows; and mainly commercials for major companies that aired nationwide. For further information, see

2190-624: The company expanded into television production by launching television and radio distributor WBC Productions . In 1980, the company bought out a majority share of Home Theater Network from Diversified Communications . The company also purchased cable TV system operator TelePrompTer in 1981, which it renamed Group W Cable the following year. Also that year, the company formed Group W Satellite Communications to maintain operations of its satellite business through its TelePrompTer acquisition, as well as that of Home Theater Network. The TelePrompTer acquisition also brought animation producer Filmation into

2263-659: The country, the San Francisco Bay Area , and Disney World . The original San Francisco version was so popular, Group W decided to export the Evening Magazine format to its other owned-and-operated stations. When Group W decided to expand the format to stations outside of their group, the existence of another locally produced program in Seattle, Washington (where Group W did not own a TV station), already named Evening Magazine , prompted them to create an alternate name for

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2336-687: The deal ultimately fell through. 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. In 1994, the Fox Broadcasting Company agreed to a multi-year, multi-station affiliation deal with New World Communications , resulting in most of New World's stations switching to Fox. Among these stations were longtime CBS affiliates WJBK-TV in Detroit and WJW-TV in Cleveland. To avoid being consigned to

2409-432: The deal was to go through. Well aware that there were few viable choices for replacement affiliates in Detroit or Cleveland, ABC gave in. The loss of WJZ-TV's ABC affiliation did not sit well with Westinghouse. At the time, WJZ-TV had been affiliated with ABC for 46 years, longer than any station that wasn't owned by the network. Westinghouse sought an affiliation deal of its own, and after several months of negotiations with

2482-579: The future. Based on these findings, a civil antitrust suit was filed against NBC and its parent company RCA, on behalf of Westinghouse in December 1956. 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, which would have resulted in WBZ-TV losing its NBC affiliation to rival station WNAC-TV ;

2555-708: 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. Paul and WFRV-TV in Green Bay ) and Home Team Sports (now NBC Sports Washington ) in

2628-592: The hosts included Ray Murray, Larry Angelo and Teresa Brown. Featured contributors included Susie Pevaroff, Nancy Glass, Mary Ann Grabavoy, Jerry Penacoli , Pat Ciarrocchi , and other stars of KYW-TV's Eyewitness News . This edition ran from July 11, 1977 until September 4, 1992, and was the last Evening Magazine version to air on a Westinghouse-owned station. The Pittsburgh version of Evening Magazine aired on KDKA-TV from August 1, 1977, until October 12, 1990. Hosts included Dave Durian , Donna Hanover , Liz Miles, Jon Burnett and Mary Robb Jackson. Contributors to

2701-466: The ink had barely dried on FCC approval of the trade when the United States Department of Justice opened an investigation into the deal, on claims that NBC had employed extortion and coercion . The Justice Department believed that NBC abused its power as a broadcast network by threatening to withhold or cancel affiliations with Westinghouse-owned stations unless the latter company agreed to

2774-457: The latter company's acquisition by CBS in 2000. King World gained control of most of the Group W and Eyemark libraries from 2000 to 2005. These libraries are now controlled by CBS Media Ventures . The Filmation library and The George Michael Sports Machine are owned by NBCUniversal (the former through DreamWorks Animation / Classic Media ), Bob Vila's Home Again is owned by Bob Vila with Telco Productions handling distribution rights, and

2847-402: The mid-1980s. Westinghouse found no success in the Charlotte market, as WPCQ-by far the smallest station ever owned by the company-remained an also-ran during its Group W years. Despite the record purchase price, Group W ran the station on a shoestring budget. Under Group W, WPCQ had a marginal signal, a minimal local news presence and a program schedule more typical of an independent station, with

2920-415: The most part the networks did not seem to mind. Most of them were among their networks' strongest performers. KDKA-TV and WJZ-TV dominated their markets, while WBZ-TV and KPIX were solid runners-up. The only exceptions were KYW-TV and WPCQ. 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

2993-456: The name PM Magazine on non-Group W stations airing the show. 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, with CBS Broadcast International acquiring the overseas rights to the Group W backlog. Eyemark was in turn folded into King World Productions following

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3066-615: The name of Westinghouse Broadcasting International ). In 1992, the Westinghouse Broadcasting International unit has signed a deal with Mitsubishi to represent the catalog for the Japanese market. Group W and KPIX also created, in 1975 (with its premiere in 1976), America's first non-news magazine series, Evening Magazine with host Jan Yanehiro . After the first few years, it franchised to Group W stations and eventually to other markets through local stations, using

3139-486: The national roll-out— PM Magazine . The current Evening that airs in the Seattle area is still produced to this day by Tegna-owned NBC affiliate KING-TV . It launched on that station on August 25, 1986, with original hosts Brian Tracey and Penny LeGate. The show currently airs at 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The show focuses on local people, events, places, and human-interest stories. When Evening Magazine / PM Magazine

3212-406: The network's terms and participate in the trade. 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

3285-562: The now-popular Discovery Channel personality, Mike Rowe . The Bay Area Evening Magazine aired on weeknights prior to Mike Rowe's move to Dirty Jobs . The show was later replaced by Eye on the Bay , which left Rowe's former Evening Magazine co-host, Malou Nubla , on the outs with the TV station. Chuck Barney, the TV critic for the Bay Area "Times" newspapers said in a March 2006 article: Turns out Nubla

3358-417: The other networks, Westinghouse agreed to affiliate its entire television unit with CBS. 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). The deal resulted in

3431-436: The proposed NBC-RKO station swap never materialized. In August 1964, after a nearly eight-year-long investigation, the FCC ordered a reversal of the swap. NBC appealed the ruling, extending the ordeal by another year, but the ruling was upheld on appeal. Westinghouse was also allowed to keep the cash compensation from the original deal. When Westinghouse regained control of the Philadelphia stations on June 19, 1965, it restored

3504-560: The radio dials of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia becoming sister stations. 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. Over the next year, it sold off almost all of its non-broadcast properties. In 1997, Westinghouse changed its name to CBS Corporation and moved its headquarters to New York. Westinghouse's cable television network properties—consisting then of The Nashville Network (now

3577-708: The section " Lincoln Financial Sports " at the end of this article. In April 2006, the Jefferson-Pilot Corporation merged with the Lincoln National Corporation ; taking the media and sports broadcasting division with it, Jefferson-Pilot Communications became Lincoln Financial Media. In June 2007, the company publicly announced it would explore a sale of this division, and hired Merrill Lynch to assess its strategic options. On November 12, 2007, Raycom Media announced that it would acquire Lincoln Financial Media's three television stations, along with

3650-401: The series after Steve Fox left and stayed until the "final" episode in 1989. Jan Yanehiro was then joined by Loren Nancarrow and Mike Jerrick for a rebooted series titled Evening , which was later renamed Evening Magazine . This continuation ran for a little over 200 episodes. In the late 1980s, Joe Montana and his wife Jennifer served as special guest hosts, hosting segments from around

3723-400: The show included Bob Kmetz and Dennis Miller (in his first broadcast experience, prior to joining Saturday Night Live ). A similar show with the same name aired on KPIX (now owned and operated by CBS, which acquired the Evening Magazine and PM Magazine trademarks as part of the purchase of CBS by Westinghouse in 1995) from 1998 to 2005. This one is well known because it was hosted by

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3796-672: The time of its closure, owned 14 radio stations in Miami, Florida , San Diego, California , Denver, Colorado , and Atlanta, Georgia . It also owned WBT, WBT-FM, and WLNK (FM) in Charlotte, North Carolina and WBTV , the CBS affiliate in Charlotte; WCSC-TV , the CBS affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina and WWBT , the NBC affiliate in Richmond, Virginia . All three of the aforementioned TV stations are now owned by

3869-431: The transfer of KHJ-TV, and Westinghouse ultimately withdrew its offer. They were also outbid for WOR-TV by a consortium of Cox Enterprises and MCA/Universal (though the former company dropped out over questions of who would be running the station). In 1987, Westinghouse attempted a bid for the station group handled by investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , with six stations formerly held by Storer Broadcasting , but

3942-569: The typeface and is occasionally used as a substitute. The font is also used in the video game Damnation . Westinghouse Broadcasting was also well known for two long-running television programs, the Mike Douglas Show and PM Magazine (called Evening Magazine in Group W's core broadcast markets). The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company entered broadcasting with the November 2, 1920, sign-on of KDKA radio in Pittsburgh. The oldest surviving licensed commercial radio station in

4015-515: The typeface during the 21st century. Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license . Notes: (a partial listing) 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. It was originally founded in 1961 to sell syndication of radio and television programming. Many of these programs were also sold internationally (under

4088-474: Was Baltimore's then-NBC affiliate, WMAR-TV , which would displace that city's longtime ABC affiliate, Group W-owned WJZ-TV. 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. In contrast, WMAR had been a ratings also-ran for over 30 years. However, Scripps demanded that WMAR be included if

4161-803: Was a self-contained entity within the Westinghouse corporate structure; while the parent company was headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , Westinghouse Broadcasting maintained headquarters in New York City . It kept national sales offices in Chicago and Los Angeles . Group W stations are best known for using a distinctive corporate typeface , introduced in 1963, for their logos and on-air imaging. 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 Group W corporate typeface has been digitized and released freely by John Sizemore; Ray Larabie 's font "Anklepants borrows heavily from

4234-512: Was acquired in March 1995 and would swap affiliations with WLNE-TV one hour before KYW-TV assumed the CBS affiliation) due to a significant signal overlap with WBZ-TV, which provides a city-grade signal to much of the Providence market. 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;

4307-435: Was an ABC station. All of Group W's stations were located within the top 40 television markets . Westinghouse's television stations were all known for their very deep connection to their home markets. They often pre-empted network programming in favor of local programs, and all of them carried programming produced by Group W, which was a major force in television syndication (see Syndication programs , below). However, for

4380-530: Was approved in January 1956; one month later Westinghouse moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland and NBC renamed the Philadelphia stations WRCV (AM) and WRCV-TV. Both companies also transferred much of their respective management and some on-air personnel to their new cities. Most notably, both The Mike Douglas Show and the Eyewitness News format originated on KYW-TV during its tenure in Cleveland. However,

4453-442: Was bought in 1954; WDTV (now KDKA-TV ) in Pittsburgh was added in 1955; and WAAM (now WJZ-TV ) in Baltimore was purchased in 1957. 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. Turner used the proceeds from the sale of the Charlotte station to help him launch CNN . In 1961,

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4526-501: Was broadcast on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, 2023. The current hosting lineup consists of Dever, Bryan, and Holcomb, with multimedia journalist Jose Cedeno also providing content. Local versions of Evening Magazine were produced at four other Westinghouse-owned stations. WPCQ-TV (now WCNC-TV ) in Charlotte , owned by Westinghouse from 1980 until 1984, was the only Group W station that did not air its own version of Evening Magazine . Then- Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting -owned WBTV held

4599-513: Was displeased when Channel 5 (KPIX) scrapped Evening Magazine in favor of Eye on the Bay —a move that diminished her onscreen role. Her contract, however, ran through this month, and she insists she intended to be a good team player and honor it. But then a heated exchange with a station exec (that Nubla says was initiated by the "irate" exec) quickly torpedoed those plans, and she was out of there. Westinghouse Broadcasting The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company , also known as Group W ,

4672-504: Was first hosted by San Francisco radio personality Jan Yanehiro , journalist Steve Fox and Detroit news anchor and reporter Erik Smith. Yanehiro stayed with the series throughout its original run, while Fox stayed for three years and Smith for only the first 13 weeks. Smith had come from WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan and returned there, becoming the anchor of that station's weekday morning newscast. The original KPIX version would go on to air more than 3,000 episodes. Richard Hart joined

4745-434: Was merged into Viacom in 2000, thus ending the corporate legacy of the original Westinghouse for good. TNN and CMT were consolidated into Viacom's MTV Networks basic cable unit post-merger, with HTS being sold to Comcast and Midwest Sports Channel being sold to News Corporation shortly afterward. Viacom, however, changed its name to CBS Corporation at the end of 2005 and spun off most of its cable and movie interests as

4818-671: Was no simple look-up table; it introduced innovative measures such as "reach index" and "gross cume" to operationalize its core models. Westinghouse later introduced an even more comprehensive tool, stylized as the "Numa Radio Planner". In the days before desktop computers, these "slide rules" were state-of-the-art in audience planning research. 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. WOWO

4891-538: Was particularly embarrassing for NBC, as it came during a very prosperous period for the network as a whole. Aside from WPCQ, Group W almost expanded into the country's top two markets; it emerged as a leading bidder for RKO General's independent stations WOR-TV (currently WWOR-TV ) in Secaucus, New Jersey (serving New York City), and came to a deal to buy KHJ-TV (currently KCAL-TV ) in Los Angeles. However, protracted legal issues that had dogged RKO General for years delayed

4964-562: Was produced at WBZ-TV , featuring Robin Young and Marty Sender , later hosts and contributors included Sara Edwards , Barry Nolan , Candace Hacey, and Tom Bergeron . It was the first version to be produced outside of San Francisco, premiering on April 18, 1977, and ending on December 17, 1990, with a special entitled "An Evening to Remember," featuring a history of the show, augmented with staff and viewer comments. At KYW-TV in Philadelphia ,

5037-461: Was sold to other interests in 1982 and WIND was spun off in 1985, two years before Group W bought WMAQ from NBC after that network announced it was closing its radio division. 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. Westinghouse's first station purchase was with WPTZ (now KYW-TV ) in Philadelphia, in 1953. KPIX in San Francisco

5110-453: Was spun off to iHeartMedia. CBS had previously announced in 2016 that it had been looking to leave the radio business. In 2019, Viacom and CBS reunited as ViacomCBS (renamed Paramount Global in 2022), with National Amusements as the majority shareholder. Currently, only one station continues to use the classic Group W font: radio station WOWO (owned by Pathfinder Communications Corporation). The other stations gradually discontinued using

5183-497: Was still on the air nationwide, KING would use some stories from the national feed for their own Evening . The show's longtime host, John Curley, emotionally signed off for the last time on April 23, 2009, after hosting nearly 4,000 shows over 14 years. On December 9, 2009, former KING 5 Morning News traffic anchor Meeghan Black became the new host of Evening Magazine , while remaining as co-host of Gardening with Ciscoe . The program celebrated its silver anniversary throughout

5256-482: Was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation . It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication . Westinghouse Broadcasting was formed in the 1920s as Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. After expanding into television, it was renamed Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1954, and adopted the Group W moniker on May 20, 1963. It

5329-703: Was to divest one of its existing stations in Denver. Later, Entercom announced it would swap four of its stations in Denver to Bonneville International in exchange for KSWD in Los Angeles. The merger was completed on July 17 and Bonneville and Entercom began operating their new clusters under time-brokerage agreements that same day. This list also contains stations that were owned by Lincoln Financial Media's predecessor Jefferson-Pilot Communications, before its merger in 2006. Note: Lincoln Financial Sports, originally Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions (later Jefferson Pilot Sports ), produced and syndicated college sports events of

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