Westinghouse Broadcasting

The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, is the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It currently owns thousandths of radio and television stations across the United States and distributes television shows for syndication as of December 2015.

Westinghouse Broadcasting was formed in the 1920s as Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. It was renamed Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1954, and adopted the Group W moniker on May 20, 1963. It is a self-contained entity within the Westinghouse corporate structure; while the parent company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Westinghouse Broadcasting maintains headquarters in New York City. It keeps 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 have been used on some non-Group W stations as well and all Group W stations still use it today. Several former Group W stations still use that typeface as well. The Group W corporate typeface is closely, but not accurately, mimicked in Ray Larabie's freeware font "Anklepants." The font is also used in the video game Damnation.

Westinghouse Broadcasting is 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).