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I'm sure it does, but doesn't Westinghouse go way back, to the start of the electric era? Didn't they built it, or lease most of it?



Yes, but somehow the name today only survives for their nuclear operation:

> Westinghouse purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997. In 1998, CBS established a brand licensing subsidiary Westinghouse Licensing Corporation (Westinghouse Electric Corporation). In 1997/1998 the Power Generation Business Unit, headquartered in Orlando, FL, was sold to Siemens AG, of Germany. A year later, CBS sold all of its nuclear power businesses to British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL). Soon after, BNFL gained license rights on the Westinghouse trademarks and they used those to reorganize their acquired assets as Westinghouse Electric Company. That company was sold to Toshiba in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporat...

My dad was always in nuclear though (well, after a brief stint at Tektronix).




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