Just Saw This

[Johnny Morgan]

The new CBS Radio corporate banner says "Established 1928"

http://www.cbsradio.com/graphics/inf_logo.jpg

Here's my question--since the current CBS Radio (ex-Infinity) is the direct purchaser of Westinghouse Broadcasting (which purchased CBS)...shouldn't it really say "Established 1920"?

I know, this is really geeky.

 

[myoda7]

Hi Johnny:
snipped from:

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/radio.html

Arthur Judson in 1927 created United Independent Broadcasters with 16 stations, helped by William Paley of La Palina Cigar Co. and the Columbia Phonograph Co., and is reorganized in 1928 as the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) with 47 affiliate stations including WABC that would later become WCBS in New York.

http://www.cbs.com/specials/cbs_75/timeline/1920.shtml

September 1928 During the month he turns 27 years old, William S. Paley acquires United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a network of 16 independent radio stations, changes name to Columbia Broadcast System and becomes President of the Company.

 

[Johnny Morgan]

I understand the history of CBS Radio as a Paley entity...but it now owns the old Westinghouse stations, including KDKA, which means its history really goes back to 1920...why doesn't it recognize that?

As I said, this is geeky radio board stuff.

 

[Radio_Realist]

"since the current CBS Radio (ex-Infinity) is the direct purchaser of Westinghouse Broadcasting (which purchased CBS)...shouldn't it really say "Established 1920"?"

Wasn't Westinghouse Broadcasting a division of Westhinghouse Electric, which was around well before 1920?

 

[Johnny Morgan]

Yes, but Viacom sold off the electric-nuclear-power business and retained the broadcast division of Westinghouse.