This clip contains excerpts from a tape that was shown to new employees hired at Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting) stations and divisions. All rights are acknowledged.
@eyeontv At 4:32: "Community involvement illustrates each station's concern for the community it is licensed to serve." A nice memory of what broadcasting once was.
The standard CBS O&Os are KCBS (Los Angeles), WCBS (New York) and WBBM (Chicago). These Group W/Westinghouse stations have now jumped on the CBS O&O Bandwagon: WBZ Boston, WJZ Baltimore, KPIX San Francisco, KYW Philadelphia and KDKA Pittsburgh. KDKA and KPIX are the exception because they are already affiliated with CBS before being bought by the network itself. Two former NBC affiliates (KYW and WBZ) and one ex-ABC affiliate (WJZ) are now owned by CBS
When I was first studying radio broadcasting in college, one of my instructors was a manager for WBZ Radio. One day, he took the class on a tour of the studios, and it was amazing - I especially couldn't get over how small the news room was. We even got to spend a few minutes chatting with Gil Santos, which to Bostonians is like chatting with the voice of god.
A terrific clip on what it used to mean to be a broadcaster, actually serving the community! SNC didn't last very long before Ted Turner drove them out of business, Newsfeed also suffered the same fate as CNN Newsource took hold.
Amazing how they highlighted WPCQ (now WCNC Charlotte), when you consider how poorly they treated it (12:30am News instead of 11, eventually cancelling most of the newscasts except hourly breaks, and a noon newscast). They pre-empted NBC's schedule, they had little original programming to call their own... hmm.
At 8:00...It's the end theme to "This Week in Baseball".Dont remember if Westinghouse had anything to do with it, or they just picked a theme from a production music library.
Westinghouse actually bought CBS around 1990 and promptly retired the "Group W" and "Westinghouse Broadcasting" names for most purposes, preferring to combine as much as possible into the better-known CBS umbrella. Of course, in the late 1990s, Westinghouse sold CBS to Viacom, which in turn sold or simply shut down many of the stations it by then owned.
+Banner4real035 Actually, Group W purchased CBS in 1995 and converted their NBC (KYW, WBZ) and ABC (WJZ) affiliates into CBS O&Os. They then renamed themselves CBS Corporation, then got bought out by Viacom 5 years later.
Luken Media and Jim Owens tried to bring back the Nashville Network in 2012 as digital TV network in the vein of ZUUS Country. The 2012 version of TNN became Heartland, unlike the original cable TV version of TNN, which became Spike TV.
This had to have been made after Group W divested WOWO/1190 in Fort Wayne, as it is notable absent from the eleven stations listed. Also, who would've known that TNN would have been the longest-running of Group W's satellite channels? (Even though Viacom morphed TNN into Spike...)
@tvnutboy HTN was still around for quite awhile, even after Disney came into existence. HTN was pretty much gone and replaced by the Travel Channel by the end of 1986, early part of 1987.
@Market42Fan Westinghouse owned WPCQ from 1980 until 1986, when they sold the station to Renaissance Broadcasting. Then in 1988, Renaissance sold WPCQ to Providence Journal Corporation and a year later, WPCQ became WCNC, which is currently owned by Belo.
This had to have been made after Group W divested WOWO/1190 in Fort Wayne, as it is notable absent from the eleven stations listed. Also, who would've known that TNN would have been the longest-running of Group W's satellite channels? (Even though Viacom morphed TNN into Spike...)
Good old Peter Thomas on the VO. Excellent example of his voice work.
Group W, the future CBS Corporation.
@eyeontv
At 4:32: "Community involvement illustrates each station's concern for the community it is licensed to serve."
A nice memory of what broadcasting once was.
VintageTelevision Maybe it is time to Break up the big groups?
The standard CBS O&Os are KCBS (Los Angeles), WCBS (New York) and WBBM (Chicago).
These Group W/Westinghouse stations have now jumped on the CBS O&O Bandwagon: WBZ Boston, WJZ Baltimore, KPIX San Francisco, KYW Philadelphia and KDKA Pittsburgh.
KDKA and KPIX are the exception because they are already affiliated with CBS before being bought by the network itself.
Two former NBC affiliates (KYW and WBZ) and one ex-ABC affiliate (WJZ) are now owned by CBS
When I was first studying radio broadcasting in college, one of my instructors was a manager for WBZ Radio. One day, he took the class on a tour of the studios, and it was amazing - I especially couldn't get over how small the news room was. We even got to spend a few minutes chatting with Gil Santos, which to Bostonians is like chatting with the voice of god.
Terrific! Now I can finish my Westinghouse type face! Thanks!
did you ever do this?
A terrific clip on what it used to mean to be a broadcaster, actually serving the community! SNC didn't last very long before Ted Turner drove them out of business, Newsfeed also suffered the same fate as CNN Newsource took hold.
Amazing how they highlighted WPCQ (now WCNC Charlotte), when you consider how poorly they treated it (12:30am News instead of 11, eventually cancelling most of the newscasts except hourly breaks, and a noon newscast). They pre-empted NBC's schedule, they had little original programming to call their own... hmm.
At 8:00...It's the end theme to "This Week in Baseball".Dont remember if Westinghouse had anything to do with it, or they just picked a theme from a production music library.
to my knowledge wjz-tv in Baltimore was abc and in Boston wbz-tv and Philadelphia kyw-tv was nbc till 1995 when they all became cbs.
This video is absolutely incredible.
One has to wonder- if Group W treated WPCQ so badly, why'd they even buy it?
they owned 1010 wins
Westinghouse actually bought CBS around 1990 and promptly retired the "Group W" and "Westinghouse Broadcasting" names for most purposes, preferring to combine as much as possible into the better-known CBS umbrella. Of course, in the late 1990s, Westinghouse sold CBS to Viacom, which in turn sold or simply shut down many of the stations it by then owned.
+Banner4real035 Actually, Group W purchased CBS in 1995 and converted their NBC (KYW, WBZ) and ABC (WJZ) affiliates into CBS O&Os. They then renamed themselves CBS Corporation, then got bought out by Viacom 5 years later.
Luken Media and Jim Owens tried to bring back the Nashville Network in 2012 as digital TV network in the vein of ZUUS Country. The 2012 version of TNN became Heartland, unlike the original cable TV version of TNN, which became Spike TV.
The New Nashville Network Is Now Heartland, But Still A Country And Western Themed Network.
Thank you for having the foresight to have kept these videos all these years. ( for the world to enjoy on YT in the 21st century)
top chap!
This had to have been made after Group W divested WOWO/1190 in Fort Wayne, as it is notable absent from the eleven stations listed.
Also, who would've known that TNN would have been the longest-running of Group W's satellite channels? (Even though Viacom morphed TNN into Spike...)
Does anyone know the stock music in the background at 3:15?
Very well done.
@tvnutboy HTN was still around for quite awhile, even after Disney came into existence. HTN was pretty much gone and replaced by the Travel Channel by the end of 1986, early part of 1987.
@Market42Fan Westinghouse owned WPCQ from 1980 until 1986, when they sold the station to Renaissance Broadcasting. Then in 1988, Renaissance sold WPCQ to Providence Journal Corporation and a year later, WPCQ became WCNC, which is currently owned by Belo.
Wow! That is amazing!
kfwb was owned by one of the warner brothers
also kcnc was a NBC now cbs
@ddavenport That all ended thanks to Ronnie's administration.
This had to have been made after Group W divested WOWO/1190 in Fort Wayne, as it is notable absent from the eleven stations listed.
Also, who would've known that TNN would have been the longest-running of Group W's satellite channels? (Even though Viacom morphed TNN into Spike...)