Talk:Westinghouse Electric (1886)
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[edit] Merger with CBS
Where it says 1995 - buys CBS I believe it was the reverse, It was CBS who purchased Westinghouse so that they could get to Westinghouse's Group W broadcasting division. Misterrick 00:00, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
No, it was definitely Westinghouse that did the buying of CBS. They subsequently renamed themselves to CBS Corporation (after divesting most of the non-broadcasting portions). (I worked for them at the time they bought CBS.) --Paul 63.237.124.70 02:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Move
There is a Requested Moves survey going on at Talk:Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1998) about the names of these articles. Ian3055 17:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Westinghouse Electric
TECO (Tiwan Electric Company) purchaced the Westinghouse name for it's motors and VFD drives about 1998. They have a limited supply of Westinghouse Motor parts and prints and do manufacture some of the parts on larger motors.
[edit] Defunct?
I can buy a Westinghouse Electric branded TV or Monitor today. I believe that makes them non-defunct even if maybe they live on in name only.
- that would be "westinghouse digital" NO relation to the original, except having licenced the name...cmacd 02:51, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- cmacd123's right. This company doesn't exist anymore. It was renamed "CBS Corporation" and then bought by Viacom. I'm not sure of the exact structure of the Viacom deal, but CBS Corporation (formerly Westinghouse Electric) ceased to exist. This makes it seem likely that the purchase was an asset sale, but it also could have just been an acquisition and then dissolution. In 1998, then, CBS Corporation founded a NEW tiny company called Westinghouse Electric with no legal relation to the former, and loaded it with the IP rights to the old Westinghouse name/logo. Later, Viacom split off a new Viacom and changed the main old company's name to CBS Corporation (no legal connection other than the same name to the former CBS Corporation). The newer Westinghouse Electric stayed with the main company (CBS Corp). Jkatzen 04:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Heritage Westinghouse Electric Corporation got out of the large- and small-appliance business in the 1970s, including home entertainment products, with the failure of its joint venture with Good-Year (auto service and appliance stores). I believe the company's last consumer product of any kind might have been lightbulbs in the same period. Subsequently, the name White Westinghouse was used by an independent appliance company.
- With the dissolution of nonbroadcast operations in the late 1990s, and the purchase of CBS and formation of Viacom, a British company [Westinghouse Electric 'Company'] was formed to take over nuclear-related operations and rights to the logo and graphics. Other companies have since purchased rights to the Westinghouse name for a range of appliances and home entertainment products with zero relationship to the original company and product lines.
- --NameThatWorks 23:02, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
